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]>
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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

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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
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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
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Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sarah
Halliday
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
email:      [log in to unmask] / phone:   01707 285769

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