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While campuses may also wish to activate their purchased or subscribed collections in Primo Central Index in order to increase discoverability, activation solely in PCI is not adequate. PCI does NOT provide catalog records, nor is it possible to examine PC metadata without pulling it up in a Primo search. This short article explains how PCI records work and their relationship to Alma.
- If you want to offer a catalog scope that includes all your ebooks in one search, you must have catalog records.
- Catalog records are also important for doing collection analysis.
- If linking from PCI is OpenURL, then you must have something active in Alma.
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