Alma and Pro Quest Ebook Central Integration February

• Introduction • Integration Elements and Configuration • Workflow • Documentation © 2019

Introduction © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 3

Introduction Alma integration with Pro. Quest Ebook Central provides institutions the ability to automatically activate/deactivate the electronic resources in Alma to which they have access via the Pro. Quest Ebook Central platform © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 4

Integration Elements and Configuration © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 5

Integration Elements and Configuration • Institution has access to the ebook titles via Pro. Quest Ebook Central • Institution has Pro. Quest Ebook Central site ID • Ebook Central Perpetual and DDA Titles collection activated in Alma by institution from the Community Zone • Publishing on Pro. Quest side for institution is setup with Pro. Quest Support © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 6

Integration Elements and Configuration Alma Configuration • Pro. Quest FTP server - ftp. ebrary. com Configuration > General > External Systems > Allowed S/FTP connections • Ebook Central Integration Profile © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 7

Integration Elements and Configuration • Add Pro. Quest vendor to Alma, if not exists • Prepare Ebook Central site identifier (site. ID) • Decide which library will own created POLs • Owned and DDA titles are both activated by default. You can decide to change this, if required, for only owned. © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 8

Workflow © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 9

Integration Steps Wait for weekly publishing Activate Publishing on Pro. Quest side and confirm activation Activate Ebook Central Perpetual and DDA Titles collection from the CZ. © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary (Monday) Create Integration profile in Alma / Run the job 10 Check Results in Alma

Collection updates in Alma Owned titles Purchased titles loaded to Alma DDA/PDA titles All PDA/DDA titles loaded to Alma POLs created For purchased titles POLs created in Alma PDA profile Unpurchased titles linked to PDA profile © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 11

Ebook Central Perpetual and DDA Titles Collection in Alma • Ebook Central Perpetual and DDA Titles collection will display number of portfolios owned + DDA titles • Weekly job running on Monday will update number of portfolios in Alma based on Pro. Quest Ebook Central activations © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 12

Ebook Central Perpetual and DDA Titles Collection in Alma • To view job report go to Monitor Jobs History tab under Admin > Manage Jobs and Sets > Monitor Jobs © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 13

Ebook Central Perpetual and DDA Titles Collection in Alma • Basic technical POLs created for every portfolio that purchased/owned and doesn’t have POL in Alma © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 14

Ebook Central Perpetual and DDA Titles Collection in Alma • After first publishing not owned DDA titles will be linked to PDA profile “PROQUEST_EBOOK_CENTRAL-PDA” • When title is purchased it will have also POL linked to a portfolio. © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 15

Next Steps • Provide list of institutions to implementation team that interested to activate Pro. Quest Ebook Central integration (for go-live/testing) • Provide Ebook Central site identifier (site. ID), if known. • Provide library that will own created technical POLs • Create vendor Proquest in Alma, if not exists © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 16

Next Steps • If testing done during implementation: ü Created Proquest vendor will remain in Alma ü Integration profile will remain in Alma ü Electronic collection Ebook Central Perpetual and DDA Titles will be removed from Alma and needs to be activated again ü Ex. Libris team – to coordinate full publishing of titles from Pro. Quest for sites that integrate with Ebook Central after go live © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 17

Next Steps • Proquest Ebook Central Academic Complete Collection – aggregator collection that can be activated from the CZ. • Handled as any other aggregator collection in Alma. © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 18

Documentation For additional information please refer to documentation: https: //knowledge. exlibrisgroup. com/Alm a/Content_Corner/Knowledge_Articles/U pload_Electronic_Holdings_from_Pro. Ques t_Ebook_Central © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 19