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4. If needed, providing the link to a patron or Access Services before the title appears in Hollis
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7-10 days following the order load in Alma, |
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There is no need to monitor the NOA notifications or to go into the e-activation task list to make the title available. |
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Instructions below provide how this may be done, if it is needed in a case by case basis. |
- If a title is a rush order, and needs to be made available before the full record has loaded, once the GOBI NOA email message has arrived, and access has been confirmed:
- Locate the URL from the NOA email message
- Prepend the proxy prefix to the front of the URL to ensure it works from off campus –
http://www.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url= - That would make the URL above look like this: http://www.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1149011
- Paste this URL into a web browser, and confirm access by trying to open a chapter.
- Send this URL to the interested faculty member/reserves/requestor. Some canned text that can go with this message:
Dear (NAME),
Harvard Library has ordered the ebook title that you have requested, (TITLE). Online access to this title has been confirmed. A record for this title will appear in Hollis within the next week. Until it appears, the book may be accessed directly on the publisher's site at:
(URL).
Please report any difficulties you encounter with this title, by submitting a problem report at http://library.harvard.edu/report-problem
Sincerely,
Harvard Library Acquisitions
- Locate the URL from the NOA email message
- NB: Because the dataloads will take a week for firm orders to appear in Hollis, selectors who would like to track the progress of their orders should be instructed to monitor them in Alma. This page on preorder searching provides several strategies for how this can be done.
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