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by Shira Rosenfeld September 27, 2020

Alma Integration with Third Iron (BrowZine)

BrowZine is an app for accessing and reading content from academic journals on the iPad. This article describes the required steps in order to publish portfolios from Alma to BrowZine, both for institutions that are not part of a network and for consortia members. Third Iron's documentation can be found here. For any questions regarding…

by Greta Heng September 22, 2020

How to Prepare HathiTrust Print Holding Data from Alma

This document describes the procedures of preparing print holdings data from Alma in three different parts, Single-part Monographs, Multi-part Monographs, and Serials. Part 1. Single-part Monographs 1. Create a set of all single-part monographs Create a set of single-part books Do an advanced search in IZ in Alma using the criteria below to get a…

by Moran Vardi September 21, 2020

Primo VE Normalization Rule Examples

See also: Configuring Normalization Rules for Display and Local Fields Note - If you copy/paste, make sure that the quotation marks transfer correctly. Create a hypertext link Create hypertext link from the URL stored in the MARC 505 field and display it in the Contents display field. rule "Primo VE - Contents 505" when MARC."505" has…

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