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Dear all I've been interested to follow these emails, as Evidence Base is currently working with LISU on a revision of the e-measures questions in the SCONUL Annual Library Statistics. Where journals that are 'freely and publicly available online' are currently explicitly excluded from the count of journal titles, the revised version which is now being trialled will have a new question on 'number of e-serial titles received but not purchased' which should include * open access titles freely available electronically to which the library provides a link in its catalogue, ERM, link resolver or other listing After the trial this academic year (2009-10), we hope to introduce the new questions for 2010-11. The interest there has been in this topic suggests that this change will be welcomed by SCONUL libraries. Best wishes Angela Dr Angela Conyers Evidence Base Research and Evaluation Birmingham City University Perry Barr Birmingham B42 2SU email: [log in to unmask] tel: 01303 240236 (home) www.ebase.bcu.ac.uk <http://www.ebase.bcu.ac.uk/> ________________________________ From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community on behalf of Robert Bley Sent: Tue 10/11/2009 20:15 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] Free e-content - what do you do? Dear All, Besides activating free e-content on link resolvers and in federated search engines, it is also useful to present users with the ability to search pre-harvested content from DOAJ, Hindawi, PubMed, PubMedCentral, arxiv.org etc etc via such services as Primo Central. Robert Robert Bley. BA, DipLib, MCLIP -----Original Message----- From: Crawshaw, Lesley A <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:22 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 Joint List Owner: [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of AlanSingleton Sent: 10 November 2009 15:57 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] Free e-content - what do you do? 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 Alan Singleton Editor Learned Publishing The Clock Tower Horton Hill HORTON BS37 6QN 44 (0 )1454 323642 -----Original Message----- From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sarah Halliday Sent: 10 November 2009 09:29 To: [log in to unmask] 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. 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