History of What Has Been Modified and Reviewed

History of What Has Been Modified and Reviewed

Last edited November 4, 2026.

Electronic Resource Management History in Alma

Purpose

This documentation is to serve the CARLI ERM community of I-Share libraries with a history of changes made to Alma Network Zone e-Collections, the reasons why changes were made, and also to note Alma Community Zone changes that were investigated, but no action was taken. Although this information has been communicated on CARLI mailing lists, it is posted here in order to be an authoritative source for future reference.

 

Date of Action Action Taken Rationale Alma e-Collection Name Alma ID Type Alma ID Total Portfolios Notes
04/24/2026 Deleted e-Collection from Alma NZ Between the 2020 migration and now, there have been around 50 or more tickets opened regarding linking and access issues. Often times, it is a CDI record that is displaying as available in PubMed Central as full text and open access when it is only available as a summary, abstract, citation, or nothing at all. The "articles" are sometimes conference proceedings, poster presentation abstracts, or the like that are part of a full text, open access publication, but the conference is not included in the publication. PubMed Central e-Collection NZ: 61385352940005816, CZ: 61111058563444000 4,129 PMC content is available in EBSCO MEDLINE Ultimate. Additionally, libraries can add the Alma Link Resolver Augmentation to enhance OpenURL metadata with PMC resource details to link more accurately to PMC resources.