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"The Alma Community Zone (CZ) is a shared repository for all Alma users. It includes authority records, bibliographic metadata, and an electronic materials knowledge base."
Bibliographic records in Alma the Community Zone come from a variety of sources. The sources are not all shared with customers, but we know it includes CONSER database and ebook records from many vendor sources.
Searching, interpreting records, levels (service, collection, portfolio)
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In the CZ, you find "community" (all Alma customers) versions of the following:
- Electronic Collections - equivalent to a Verde package record or an SFX Target. Collections (with the exception of Database types) contain portfolios.
- Aggregator package: a type of electronic collection that includes all titles (Clinical Key)
- Selective package: includes only some of the collection’s titles (Stat!Ref)
- Database: type of electronic collection whose resources cannot be individually managed. Databases DO NOT contain portfolios. (e.g. World Communism: Pamphlets from McMaster University)
- Service Services - (e.g., full text or abstracts). Proxy settings for eresources e-resource portfolios are set at the service level, portfolios . Portfolios inherit these linking settings from services.
- Portfolios are individual title level and must be - individual titles that are part of a collection. They are normally e-books or e-journals.
- Portfolios are grouped/organized into collections. A collection can contain active and inactive portfolios. You can see a list of all the portfolios in a collection.
- When we bring in a record from the Community Zone, it lives in our Institution Zone but is still linked to the version in the CZ. Updates or enhancements to the records will be reflected in our IZ records.
- Example: ClinicalKey, frontlists in the CZ
- Example: Foundations for global health practice
Activating Journals (continuous orders) - task list
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