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Description of Advanced Alma Queries and examples of advanced search queries in the NZ to locate shared electronic collections.

Step-by-step guide

  1. Must use Electronic Collection or Electronic Portfolio to locate e-collections in Alma, not All Titles, Electronic Titles or Collection.
  2. Locate Electronic Collection
    1. Search by Electronic Collection > Electronic Collection Name > ECOLLECTION_NAME
      1. If searching for all of the EBSCO resources, enter in EBSCO or EBSCOhost
      2. If searching for a specific name of an EBSCO resource, can leave EBSCO off of the e-collection name
  3. Search for all shared electronic collections in NZ
    1. Do a Repository Search > Choose Electronic Collection and then click Advanced Search > Add Condition: check Collection Available Only For in Electronic Collection section  > equals > Choose Campus from dropdown list
      1. This will list the active e-collections for your library
      2. If you want to weed out the OA e-collections to look at only subscribed collections first, Add Condition to the Advanced search: Free > Equals > Not Free in dropdown and then click Go.


Note from Ex Libris about searching Alma NZ:

The way it was explained to me by Ex Libris was that if it states Held By, it is coming from the IZ (if you see My Institution listed then it is available in your library’s IZ).  If it is Availability: Electronic Version, it is coming from the NZ.  All active e-collections will appear (shared and not shared) in an All Titles search.  The coverage date displayed in these records do not reflect what the CSU's date coverage is for that title.  For that, a electronic portfolio search would need to be done.

To see the Available For label and what electronic collections your library is sharing in the NZ, then you will need to do an electronic collection or e-portfolio search.  The Available For label only displays for electronic portfolios and collections.



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