EBSCONET Subscription Management vs. Ex Libris Alma

EBSCONET Subscription Management

1 Reviews and Ratings

Ex Libris Alma

2 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
EBSCONET Subscription Management	Score7 out of 10	N/A	EBSCONET Subscription Management allows corporations, institutions of higher education, and other entities can manage their journal subscriptions and renewals. With EBSCO Analytics (a service contained in EBSCONET Subscription Management), entities can analyze subscription cost versus subscription usage to ensure their knowledge and research bases contain the right journals and resources that their users will read, optimizing research and library budgeting.	N/A
Ex Libris Alma	Score10 out of 10	N/A	Ex Libris Alma is a unified library services platform for managing print, electronic, and digital materials in a single interface. As a completely cloud-based service, Alma boasts a cost-effective library management solution. Ex Libris is a Clarivate company since the December, 2021 acquisition.	N/A

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Pricing Offerings
EBSCONET Subscription Management	Ex Libris Alma
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User Ratings
	EBSCONET Subscription Management	Ex Libris Alma
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	EBSCONET Subscription Management	Ex Libris Alma
Likelihood to Recommend	EBSCO Information Services No answers on this topic	Clarivate I think Ex Libris Alma is well suited to any library, including those with multiple locations, that is looking for a back-end collections management solution and a front-end discovery website for patrons (Ex Libris Primo) that will play together seamlessly and require little work to synchronize. It might not be the best fit for libraries that regularly evaluate their collections in depth using digital information that is not provided in Alma's own analytics package. I would recommend carefully evaluating what Alma's analytics can do vs. your library's needs before committing, but otherwise it does the job well! Aidan Kennedy Reference Librarian Read full review
Pros	EBSCO Information Services No answers on this topic	Clarivate Integrates smoothly with other Ex Libris products (like Primo for patron-facing searching and Esploro for a research repository) and Springshare Works well across multiple connected library locations You can set many different levels of permissions for different users Easy to create and save fairly complicated advanced searches Aidan Kennedy Reference Librarian Read full review
Cons	EBSCO Information Services No answers on this topic	Clarivate When you conduct an advanced search, there are some of the data points that simply won't export to a .csv, making external analytic work tedious or impossible UI is not the friendliest - there is a lot of clicking on subtabs to get the information you want Aidan Kennedy Reference Librarian Read full review
Return on Investment	EBSCO Information Services No answers on this topic	Clarivate Ex Libris Alma was in use before I started working at the library, so I can't say for sure Aidan Kennedy Reference Librarian Read full review
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