Alma/Primo VE Documentation: Content

Content and records in Alma/ Primo VE come from a number of sources:

• Institutional MARC21 Records: majority of records that migrated from Symphony to Alma, as well as local records we've added since implementation.
  • Includes records for physical and electronic materials (books, ebooks, journals, scores, audio, video, streaming, databases - we created MARC records for everything).
  • Records that contained a MARC 856 |u link were converted to Alma electronic portfolios in the Physical to Electronic (P2E) process during migration. 
  • Records are often indicated with MARC 035 |a 'o1cmu_inst' 
     
• Alma Community Zone (CZ): Alma's central knowledgebase (CKB) or 'community catalog' where we can activate electronic resources
  • Updates are automatically managed on a weekly basis via the CZ Updates Task List. Common updates include addition/removal of portfolios, linking information, etc
  • Updated weekly  See CKB release notes below 
  • Records are indicated with MARC 035 |a (CKB)
  • 360 Data Extract: This process was completed during migration by Ex Libris. Subscription collections/ packages were activated in Alma based on active resources in 360 Link/ Summon. 

• Central Discovery Index (CDI): An index that contains millions of records harvested from publishers and aggregators for articles, eBooks, conference proceedings, newspaper articles, images, citation metadata, and abstracts. 
  • Full text in the CDI is indexed and used for discovery - not delivery! The CDI works with Alma to deliver full-text via the link resolver
  • We choose which collections to activate/deactivate in the CDI
  • CDI collections are reflected in Primo VE within 72 hours of activation (48 hours is target timeframe)
     
• EBSCO API scope: A separate Primo VE search scope for subscription EBSCO content. 
  • See list of EBSCO databases that are searchable
  • Users must be logged into Primo VE to see full results in this scope
  • EBSCO results aren't yielded in other search scopes, Everything, Articles & More, or Books & More