Lesley, Alan, Sarah, et al.,
A light-hearted and slightly biased reply...
Lots of free stuff is scholarly and of high quality. The question is,
how do we help our researchers to discover it?
Link resolvers help to some extent because they provide links in the
environments that our researchers already use. It's not only content in
hybrid journals that might be of use to our researchers but that links
resolvers don't present: it's also content in open access repositories
and other locations.
Researchers do (sometimes!) search in the library catalogue, so adding
free resources to the catalogue is one way to bring quality free
resources to their attention. It's great if you know that the content is
going to be stable at a particular URL. How do you select which free
resources to add to your library catalogue? Why the ones most relevant
to your own community...
It reminds me of what libraries used to do in the days before the www
;-)
Kind regards
Jenny Delasalle
Chair of the UK Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR)
http://www.ukcorr.org/
E-Repositories Manager
University of Warwick Library
Gibbet Hill Road
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Tel: (+44) (0) 24 765 75793
http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk
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> Subject: Re: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] Free e-content - what do you do?
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> I think you raise an interesting question about whether link
> resolvers act as barriers to access to free content where one
> doesn't subscribe to the paid for content especially as the
> number of these articles is likely to increase due to funding
> body requirements etc.
>
> We have seen this on a number of occasions - one where an
> author here at our institution had paid to open up access to
> his article, but where our link resolver said that we didn't
> have any access rights to the journal itself. He was most upset!
>
> I don't know whether there is anyway around this, so it would
> be useful to know. Maybe if this trend in the number of open
> access articles increases in these so-called "hybrid" OA
> journals it could mark the beginning of the end of link resolvers?
>
>
> Cheers
> Lesley
>
>
> Lesley Crawshaw
> Knowledge & Business Intelligence Consultant Information
> Hertfordshire University of Hertfordshire
> Tel: 01707 285508
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>
> I wonder if I could add two related questions? - (and advance
> apologies for my ignorance on this!):
>
> (i) how do libraries get access to 'freely available' journal
> papers from 'hybrid' OA journals (i.e. ones that are
> essentially subscription-based, but will carry some OA
> material)? - I'm assuming cases where they are
> non-subscribers to the journal.
>
> (ii) do link resolvers prevent access to these hybrids in
> some way (i.e. if not everything is free)? - if so, can they
> be reconfigured to allow it?
>
> Alan
>
>
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> Sent: 10 November 2009 09:29
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> Subject: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] Free e-content - what do you do?
>
> Hello
>
> At the University of Hertfordshire we're undertaking a
> project to make available as much 'free' e-content as
> possible to our users. We're really interested in finding out
> what other institutions do and would be very grateful if you
> could reply to any or all of the following questions (and add
> any other
> comments):
>
> Do you put records for free e-content (such as reports, free
> to access e- books, websites) in your OPAC? If not, how do
> you make this content available to your users?
>
> What strategy do you use to determine what free content you
> will make available to your users? How do you capture the content?
>
> If you add records for free content to your OPAC, do you only
> add items that have Marc records, or do you create records?
> If you create records, what tools and methodology do you use?
>
> Do you use a link checker, and if so, which one and how do
> you rate it?
> Does anyone have experience of using an open source link checker?
>
> Are you aware of any UK or international forums where free
> content capture is discussed, any JISC or SCONUL initiatives
> addressing this, and any relevant conferences/events featuring this?
>
> I'll happily summarise responses for the list!
> Many thanks,
>
> Sarah Halliday
> Assistant Knowledge Consultant (Information Management)
> Information Hertfordshire, University of Hertfordshire,
> Hatfield, Herts. AL10 9AB
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