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Full text links were appearing when there was no full text

“ebook says "full text" but no full text access for a collection we don't have CDI. This is one example of records appearing in our Primo with this particular collection - TN_cdi_askewsholts_vlebook. The record says "full text available" but the full record says "no full text available".”

This collection was causing a lot of issues with the full text available displaying when it should not.

Case #00855574

Ex Libris remove the Vlebooks collection from CDI

Database content not discoverable in Primo. (Updated 7/06/2020)

If the special “Full Text active in CDI only: Yes” does not exist in your IZ for Electronic Collection Type: database, then it must be inherited by individual libraries from the NZ or must be activated in the IZ by individual libraries to be discoverable. Complication: the bib record must be unsupressed which is against policy. Recommendation in progress.

Case #852010, 851956. etc.

Reported to Ex Libris. Narrowed the issue down to Databases. Testing out possible solutions.

Slowly developing instructions to check for discoverabilty of NZ collections here.

Full correspondence can be found here.

 

Proxied OA collections (Updated 7/06/2020)

“16 out of 70 cases (23%) center around this issue. According to ex libris support, there is a "mismatch between the Alma collection being marked as Open Access and the CDI records not being marked as such in the metadata" We asked CDI_Info about how widespread the issue is.


CDI_Info response: “The content team is aware of this. I think there is an issue with certain collections not being fully open access and it is difficult to reflect this correctly on Alma. If these are collections that can be split into open access and none open access items the content team will do this but this is not always possible. The plan at the moment is to flag collections where the split is not possible as partially open access in Alma.”

Case #852731, 851991, 850959, 850506, 850034, 847763, etc.

In progress…

Full correspondence can be found here.

Full Text Availability indication flag in brief record/No link in full record. (Updated 7/06/2020)

About 26/70 (37%) were about this issue. We understand that this can be complicated to address however we thought we'd share some steps we've taken to do our part. First, we updated the " We subscribe to only some titles in this collection" for ProQuest and Gale Aggregator Packages Linkresolver type in the NZ to Yes instead of No….My question is: do you know if this will help and also are there other factors we should take into consideration?

CDI_Info response:

For aggregator collections which have some content without identifiers and which use the link resolver the match can be difficult and fail. So if such collections are set generally to all content as full text available, and some content cannot find a match you have the false positives. While the content team is working on improving this over time I doubt that this is something we can entirely fix. So for collections that have such content it is better to use the selective flag as you suggest in your email. That will definitely make it more accurate. It will lead to some content not being flagged as available so the downside is that you have false negatives. But you have no false positives anymore that can lead to linking problems.

Case# 854035, 852793, 853274, 852728, 851265, etc

Testing different solutions

Full correspondence can be found here.

Q&A

Answer (2/27/2020): There is one customer and the other are the institutions that are part of the "California State University (System)", that is mean that the campuses are under the same client.

Answer (2/11/2020): You mean when you are going live with CDI? Yes, if you are all registered under the same customer then you need to go live together. You can either agree on a date or you wait until the general switchover when we automatically switch all to production in July/August.

About the EasyActive – currently all institutions in a consortium (connected to one Alma network) need to be on the same setting. We did have some requests to provide an option for individual institutions in a consortium to move to EasyActive but nothing definite. Do you already know which institutions would choose EasyActive as opposed to the Fully Flexible setting?

Answer (1/30/2020): Records with different ISSNs are not merged. Were you thinking of a specific use case? It does not seem likely that there are records for articles that are exactly the same but have different ISSNs but I can check to make sure if you have an example or a specific use case.

Follow-up question: If ExL will be merging records according to ISSN, what happens to records that shouldn’t be merged together? Like a bibliographic record for a print journal linking to a CZ e-portfolio

Answer (1/31/2020)We are not merging CDI records with records from the CZ, or other records that you create locally. Also, CDI indexes articles rather than journal records.

Answer (2/16/2020): We are adding the CDI fields to Alma Analytics so you will be able to select by type of collections and whether they are in CDI or not. The development is not yet done, this is planned to be added in May so will not be available immediately but soon after you are enabled with CDI. Documentation with more details on the fields etc. will become available upon release.