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65 results found
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minimize Authorize Order page to view and edit multiple items at once
The new Authorize Order page has great features that it truly needed. The only problem is that each item is huge and takes up the entire viewing page. An expand or contract option would be helpful.
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Multi-Tab Feature
Multi-Tab Feature would be more efficient that the current single-view option. For instance, if I'm in a list and realize I need to do a search, I leave my list and then have to come back to it. This can happen frequently and if I could just open another tab for searching or referencing another list, it would make things easier. If I add an item from the search tab to a list that is on a tab currently being viewed, a "refresh list" button would be nice.
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Add search limits for price and currency
Currently the only way to limit by price or currency is to filter your results after every single search. It would be much more efficient to set your price limits and currency upfront and have them stick through all of your searches. It is quite common for our selectors to accidentally choose items in foreign currencies when there are domestic editions available. Often these foreign titles are difficult or impossible to obtain, and/or take longer to arrive. If we could limit all searches to US dollars we could avoid this problem.
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Reinstate blank order form
Enable libraries to add publication information if an item is not listed on Oasis. This facility was removed during the last upgrade. At the moment we have to contact Customer Services to get this information added.
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MARC download: add this function to search results
Currently the only way to download a title's MARC record is to add it to the shopping cart.
Adding the option of downloading the MARC when viewing additional title details in the search results would be a big improvement for those of us who do not place their Proquest orders via Oasis.
3 votes -
3 votes
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Change chronology of standing order items to year-month instead of month-year
When searching for standing orders, the titles appear in multiples, one for each volume published. When sorting them by date, they are sorted alphabetically by month, with the year written second (not useful!). I suggest that the dates be written as (year)-(numerical month), so that they could sort chronologically.
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Form on Oasis to request titles as ebooks
Would like there to be a form on Oasis for colleagues who want to know if we can get a print title in ebook format. Or to suggest a collaboration between a small publisher and EBC so we can access their ebooks on the platform rather than self-hosting a PDF. We would also like a way to be able to view what's been requested and any progress in the process.
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Better integration of Ifound with Proquest systems
Can the integration of Ifound be improved so that any book we order from Proquest be automatically fed into Ifound, regardless of the item being ordered via the Oasis channel.
At the moment we have to cancel the order sent via EDI and start again via Ifound according to colleagues working in the monograph ordering team
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Please add a field for ebook Format to OASIS (in title details)
Knowing whether or not an ebook is available at EPUB or PDF or both is a critical data point for us to know before we purchase an ebook. Please include a field for ebook format in the "title details" section.
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3 votes
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Allow a selector to retract an order sent to ratifier (From Lakeland College in CAN)
Twice in recent months, customers have asked to be able to recant or retract an order a selector sent to a ratifier.
3 votes -
Allow users to exclude publishers in their profiles
It would be extremely helpful to be able to manually adjust one's profile to exclude publishers one doesn't want directly.
3 votes -
EBSCO e-Audio Books
Want to purchase these via OASIS rather than going outside the workflow
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Profiling - More Children's awards
More international children's awards covering LGBQ and other niche.
3 votes -
Add option for "fuzzy" title search when there is no exact match
When there is no exact match in a title search, it would be helpful if instead of bringing back “No results found”, the system reverted to a fuzzier search and brought back similar results. Something like, “No exact results for your search, but here are some similar titles…”
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Increase Invoicing Options when using API
Currently the invoicing options presented to us with ALMA/Oasis API integration are title by title (POL Invoicing), Invoice By Shipment, and Invoice by Fund. Our current workflows often mix funds and we normally place multiple orders in a day which has forced us into title by title invoicing. There should be a way for Oasis to limit invoicing to specific orders or other options to prevent a library from having to drastically altering ordering processes to utilize API ordering.
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Add Films-on-Demand
Please consider adding streaming video service Films-on-Demand to the OASIS offerings.
3 votes -
Add Kanopy platform
I would like to be able to purchase streaming video from the Kanopy platform on OASIS.
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We would like to be able to change the default of the search results in Oasis.
We would like to be able to change the default of the search results in Oasis. In the old system we could sort by Copyright year and it would carry on defaulting to this, unless you changed it again. Although we can choose this in the new interface, it always reverts back to best match results, which is a really odd default. Is there anyway we can change this to default to Copyright year?
2 votes
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