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NZ Collections Available for Testing

All NZ collections are now configured for remote access and testing (including with linking parameters entered as applicable).

For details about your college’s NZ collections, please see your ERMA to Alma Mapping Table.

How to Test and Report Issues

Please use Part 4: Testing Electronic Resources of the Alma and Primo VE Testing Guide to start testing your resources. Part 4 is still under development but there are several aspects of your e-resources can can test now.

To report any issues, please use this Google form:

Alma NZ Collection Issue Reporting form

Form submissions are available in a spreadsheet linked at the top of the form so you can review known issues that have been reported by other colleges. This spreadsheet, along with the ERMA to Alma Mapping Tables, replaces the Electronic Collection Change Report and Known Issues & ERMA Mapping pages in Confluence, which have now been retired.

Please allow some time for OCLS to respond to your request as this is a new reporting system and the team is already working on previously identified issues (see below). The form will initially be used for information gathering as we prepare for next steps.

Identified Issues

From preliminary testing with the E-resources/Acquisitions Subcommittee, OCLS is aware of issues with many EBSCO collections, but the results are inconsistent across collections and colleges. Reported issues include:

  • Unable to locate in Primo

  • The collection appears in Primo, but with no link

  • The link leads to an error code 3 (only applicable to RA colleges)

  • The link leads to an “Error in HTTP handler” message, or other error message coming from EBSCO’s system

Several colleges have also reported other issues they’ve encountered with various e-resource collections, by email and in Basecamp.

OCLS continues to investigate these issues.

Testing E-Resources Not In the Community Zone

OCLS also continues to investigate solutions for e-resources that are not available in the Community Zone. For more information, see Collections Not in Community Zone to be Activated.

Previous update available at Update: Testing of Network Zone Electronic Collections

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