I think open access initiatives are great and really have increased
access to information published in journals to which some libraries
cannot afford to subscribe. However, it is very frustrating when maybe
one article from a particular journal is full text. If the full text
source does not have all articles full text for at least certain time
period, the open url resolver vendors I have dealt with either don't
want or can't create access to those articles. So what this means is if
we find the citation to the article in an Ebsco database and that one
article is available online somewhere, we cannot link to it through our
open url resolver and will not find it unless we deliberately look for
it online. Another problem I have noticed with open access journals is
the lack of indexing. If people don't know an article exists, short of
finding a citation to it on the internet, it doesn't matter how great
the article is, people will not find it.
Barbara M. Pope, MALS
Periodicals/Reference Librarian
Axe Library
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg KS 66762
620-235-4884
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Crawshaw, Lesley A wrote:
> 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
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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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> 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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