Acquisitions is the process by which an institution acquires new items or services. "New" means either copies of items that already exist in the inventory, new items without holdings that are defined in the Institution, Community, or Network Zones, or extensions or additions to existing services (such as additional users for an electronic resource). Alma provides a step-by-step process that guides all acquisitions. Alma handles many kinds of acquisitions, including physical, electronic, and digital, and including standing orders, periodical subscriptions, and renewals.
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Acquisitions Overview (Alma Essentials video,4 minutes)
This session presents the various acquisition workflows in Alma, as well the types of acquisitions that are available, and the Alma user roles that are needed for acquisitions.
Ex Libris's central hub of links to Alma Acquisitions workflow videos.
The "Introduction to Acquisitions" Ex Libris documentation provides many links to functional areas of Acquisitions in Alma including purchasing, invoicing, serials renewals, electronic resource trials, batch record import processing and configuration of settings.
Alma supports one-time, continuous, and standing-order acquisitions of physical resources, electronic resources, access and database services. Alma also supports the full end-to-end workflows required for these different types of acquisitions.
There are three basic workflows to the acquisitions process in Alma, which are common to most types of acquisitions:
What are the Benefits to Using Acquisitions in Alma?