7 November 2018
Librarians who use the OASIS system or LibCentral, the administrative portal for the Ebook Central platform, have a new way to influence the future development of these services. ProQuest has announced the launch of Idea Exchange, an online community intended to enable customers to shape the products and solutions they invest in and use every day.
Current OASIS and LibCentral customers are invited to propose ideas or vote or comment on their favourite ideas, allowing groups of colleagues to shape suggestions together. ProQuest will read, monitor and respond to customer submissions, and those with the most votes will move to the top of the queue for ProQuest leadership to review and – when possible – move toward implementation. Each time an idea is implemented or included on the development roadmap, ProQuest will share the news with Idea Exchange users.
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has been using its own Idea Exchange forum for several years and has successfully implemented customer suggestions originally shared via the community.