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Patrons can change the color of the page in the reader
Ability to change page colour to a more muted one, as plain white is hard on the eye over a long period, this function is already in many other digital readers.
12 votesThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! We will keep this in mind for future consideration.
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request to add Full Download detail information to Title Report
Please add Full Download detail information on the Title Report and title list (via Dashbord).
Title list has an 'EPUB Full Download Only' column but we need a detail Full Download information exactly you listed on LibCentral Full Record. Please refer to the attached screenshot. Also please add 'Full Download information' to Title Report under the 'Availability' section.
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Rqeust to add a hyperlink to URL under the LibCentral Book Details
Rqeust to add a hyperlink to URL under the LibCentral Book Details.
Please refer to the attached screenshot,1 vote -
Improvement of the EPUB format interface.
It would be great if the EPUB format interface can be changed to be as similar as possible as the most common ebook interface that the majority of ebooks in EBC has got. An example is to have the table of contents to the left.
The current interface for EPUB ebooks is not so easy to understand when the reader is used to the more common one.
We also think, when setting the downloads to 0 for an EPUB ebook, (due to the current covid-19 we want to do that, so that as many users as possible can read it…
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Automatically email weekly usage summary
Our institution is moving towards Power BI to live present our data. Therefore we need a way to export that data from ProQuest in a format that can be identified and harvested by other Microsoft systems. An Excel spreadsheet attached to an email might be able to do this with Flow
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Offer KBART to customers
It would be great if customers could get KBART of their holdings. It would help in maintaining collections in discovery systems.
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Normalize Highlighting
Highlighting sentences is inconsistent where it either highlights the sentence continuously or highlights each individual word. The latter creates a distracting white lattice of un-highlighted space over the text which makes it very difficult to read.
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Allow the ability to change the extended access settings for individual titles
This has come up when new editions of owned copies of titles come out. We don't want to turn off the visibility of the owned copy but we also don't want to trigger additional upgrades or purchases.
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invoice
Since some resellers are obliged to print out invoices for the accounting departement, it would be great if the invoices could be reduced to as few pages as possible. This would save tons of paper and therefore help save the planet :)
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Allow folders we create to be re-arranged by the user.
Right now folders simply appear in the order created. I have many different ones, for classes and research projects. Sometimes an existing folder is too general with too many books, and I create "sub" folders, but I can't cluster them. I also can't move the folders that I'm currently using the most to the top so I don't have to keep looking for them.
3 votesThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! We will keep this in mind for future consideration.
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Curated Topics -- Would it be possible to customize the list? Example for users of healthcare establishments?
Derired topics:
Anesthesia
Cardiology
Dermatology
Emergency medicine
Endocrinology
Family medicine and primary care
Gastroenterology
Geriatry
Gynecology
Hospital management
Infection prevention
Infectious diseases
Internal medicine
Medical imaging (Radiology, MRI, Ultrasound, etc.)
Mental health (adult)
Mental health (children)
Neurology
Neuropsychology
Nutrition (Clinical nutrition)
Nephrology
Nursing
Obstetric
Occupational therapy
Oncology
Ophthalmology
ORL (Oto-Rhino-Laryngology)
Orthopedy
Palliative care
Pediatry and neonatology
Perinatalogy
Pharmacology
Physiotherapy
Pneumology
Psychiatry
Rheumatology
Social work
Surgery
Urology4 votes -
Allowing only a specific email domain for account creation
Allowing only a specific email domain (the one of the institution) for account creation (via IP)
26 votesThank you for your suggestion for improving Ebook Central. We will keep this in mind for future consideration. In the meantime, please continue to vote and comment with ways this functionality might help your experience.
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Reconciling invoice payments into DDA deposit account more seamlessly
Recently our finance department paid a proforma invoice - I had to chase Proquest as the payment wasn't showing in our deposit account for nearly 3 weeks? This also happened with the previous deposit invoice. Can the process be made more seamless from your side so that deposit payments made into deposit accounts show immediately?
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Provide forthcoming ebook information, especially for new editions
It would be wonderful if you could provide information on when you will receive an ebook from a publisher, especially when new editions of print are available. I'm often asked this question when the title can't be located in your catalog but it is known to be available in print and the ebook is available directly with the publisher. Being able to pre-order these books would also be great. When I e-mail support with these questions, I'm often never provided with a response.
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Admin control to set the default citation style
I would like to be able to set the default citation style in ebook central as an admin.
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Allow Libraries to host ebooks they own
I wish libraries could host ebooks they own on the Ebook Central platform. Sometimes we purchase ebook files directly from publishers that don't have their own platform and it would be great if we could host them on Ebook Central. This could be a value added benefit for Academic Complete customers. Alexander Street offers free video hosting for Academic Video Online customers.
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Add more subjects
Add the following subject headings under ''Browse Subjects'': Sports; Sports and Recreation
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Patrons can share bookshelves across their institution
Make the Bookshelf function shareable across institutions
The Bookshelf function is a brilliant function of Ebook Central. I work in a support role for Jisc, and we use Ebook Central to host our collection of e-books for FE. I created several Bookshelves to divide our collection into subject and qualification areas, but was disappointed to learn that I would not be able to share these with different organisations, I could only share them within Jisc. This is disappointing because it would be a fantastic support mechanism for Jisc's librarian members in the UK. Our members often don't have the time to create these…33 votesThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! We will keep this in mind for future consideration.
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Add Readership Level to DDA profiling
We would like to be able to profile by readership level, so that it is easy to filter out non-academic content which we do not want to acquire.
20 votesThis idea is still under review by the product team. We will continue to update our customers on the Idea Exchange. We appreciate your comments and votes as we evaluate and triage your great ideas! Best, Rayna
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Select PDF or EPUB
If an ebook is available in both PDF and EPUB format, the reader displays the PDF only. You have no chance to display the EPUB format. It would be very helpful for mobile device to have the opportunity to select which format should be displayed and downloaded.
6 votesThank you all for your feedback on this enhancement request! We will keep this in mind for future consideration.
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