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Make EBSCO Enhancement Requests visible publicly on this site or another similar one

See ER 3517721: Create a portal to add new ER's and vote for the existing ones     "The Gobi division of EBSCO has this excellent Ideas Portal - https://ebscobooks.ideas.aha.io/ My request is that EBSCO Information Services also uses this portal ...
Guest 28 days ago in User Interface 0

Include links to new editions

When a new edition is available, please include that link in the older edition. Other book vendors include this and it ensures we order the most current edition. especially if a title has changed.
Linda Nilles about 2 years ago in Selection Workflow / User Interface 1 Future consideration

When an ISBN with hyphens is used to search, automatically remove hyphens

In ISBNs hyphens are often used (for example 978-981-19-7160-0). To be able to search by ISBN I have to remove the hyphens manually. With hyphens the result is 'No results were found'. It would be great if the hyphens were removed automatically (e...
Judith Gulpers almost 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow / Selection Workflow / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Discounts shown in price before purchase

s4971387 St Marys University, Twickenham mentioned they would like to see any discounts reflected in the Price on GOBI. This relates to libraries in a consortium such as SUPC
Krista Eidal about 1 month ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Preferred sort order

The default sort order of the results is 'Relevance'. I would like to be able to change that into Pub Year > Descending (to see the newest titles first) and keep that sort order (at least) for the next searches in the same session.
Judith Gulpers over 2 years ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Subfolders

It would be beneficial to be able to organize folders into subfolders. For example, I keep lists until all items arrive, but they clutter my lists when adding new items. Being able to sort lists or hide some that have already been submitted would ...
Guest almost 2 years ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Print on Demand Status Indication

I ordered a book that has a status of in stock and turns out it is a print on demand item and will take extra time to get it. I don't see anything in the record that indicates print on demand. It would be nice to know that before hand. Instead of ...
Guest almost 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow / User Interface 0 Future consideration

search titles within a folder in My Folders

Can we search just the titles in a folder? That would be handy. Did I already add this to my folder or not?
Guest almost 2 years ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Calculate Est. Net total for selected items

In the Gobi platform, being able to see the net and list price totals of selected items would cut down on extra work to make sure funds are not over spent.
Guest over 2 years ago in Selection Workflow / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add publication year limitation for Notifications

When setting up Notifications, especially for "All Titles" users receive titles with older pub years and there is no way to limit by pub year. Adding a pub year limitation to Notifications would keep older titles out.
Guest over 1 year ago in Profiling and Approval Services / User Interface 0 Future consideration