Auto upgrades should automatically purchase an unlimited licence or the most liberal licence where available rather than gradually moving up through the licence options.
Kerry Hadaway
over 1 year ago
in eBook Management
1
Future consideration
Gobi use of "subscribed" for OA collection confusing, change to more accurate phrase
Gobi has recently started using the "library activity" link "Subscribed [date]" on ebooks that are not in fact part of a paid subscription but in EBSCO's "OA Ebook Collection", which is free. To see an example, if you have selected that package in...
GOBI Order cancellations email alerts should be able to be sent to the person who selected or ordered the book
GOBI Order cancellations email alerts should be able to be sent to the person who selected or ordered the book in real-time. This is important at my library because each individual selector is responsible for closely tracking their budget allotmen...
Acquisition workflow when ordering print duplicates of ebooks
Lately I have had to order print copies of ebooks that we own. When the print record finds the print isbn in the FOLIO ebook record, it attaches to the ebook record. It is a lot of work to remove the print isbn BEFORE placing the order in GOBI, an...
Library DDA sent search results need to include DDA platform selected in output
I use the Library DDA Sent search tool, but when I then want to output the result set, even with tab-delimited Full options, there is no column that tells me which platform among the three in our DDA profile is the one we actually got for that tit...
Give us an email heads up of e-titles to be removed by publisher before they are removed
ProQuest used to do this. Maybe it is contractually disallowed, but if not libraries may want to add or trigger titles before they go away permanently on the EBSCO platform.
Gobi API Purchase Order creation for DDA autopurchases
Please enable the GOBI API to create purchase orders in Alma for auto-purchased DDA titles. This automation will allow for accurate tracking of DDA purchases in Alma and reduce manual work/errors in POL creation
When libraries have multiple acccounts and a user has logins for these mutliple accounts, rather than logging out and logging back in, it would be great to be able to toggle between the accounts.