There are a lot of approaches to providing access to OA publications. My eventual (and elusive) goal is to be able to provide access to desired OA material at the article level, even when the journal may not be OA. My library uses Primo as a discovery tool with Alma on the back end. I've found this makes it somewhat easier make OA material accessible. We get catalog records for OA journals from the Community Zone at the time we bring things into our resolver knowledge base, which means we don't have to do much to manage records. We also have found that the Primo Central Index is at least sometimes able to identify OA articles from hybrid journals, which is great. Most of that seems to come from OA repositories that have been added to the index. A couple things to investigate:

The oaDOI integration with SFX: http://blog.impactstory.org/oadoi-in-sfx/. This can help with resolving to OA material at the article level.

You may also want to look at ROAD for identifying titles: http://road.issn.org/ or even for downloading records: http://road.issn.org/en/contenu/download-road-records. 

Chris Bulock
Collection Coordinator for Electronic Resource Management
California State University Northridge

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:26 AM Judith Koveleskie <kovelesk@setonhill.edu> wrote:
We have simply added two pages to our library website, so that when we find good databases we list them:

http://setonhill.libguides.com/library/OpenBooks

http://setonhill.libguides.com/library/OpenAccess

We include the following disclaimer: 

We offer these web sites as a supplement to those materials available only through Reeves Memorial Library.  

Because these are freely available, we have no control over any malfunction, but would be happy to help you with your searches.


Judith A. Koveleskie, Serials Librarian
Seton Hill University, Reeves Memorial Library
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Beth M. Johns <bmjohns@svsu.edu> wrote:

Hi Igor,


We haven't found a good method to introduce users to open access yet. Or a way to "control" the content. 


We use EBSCO Publication Finder for our online journals (and Full Text Finder for the link resolver). We've enabled a few open access aggregators (DOAJ for example), but I'm finding that EBSCO's open access lists are often a better choice as far as reliability in the link is concerned. Wiley, Springer, Elsevier, etc. all have their own open access packages in EBSCO's administrative site, so I've enabled those as well. 


Traditionally, we do not catalog our open access titles -- we have only one cataloger and her assistant and they do not have time to do this. 


I've created an open access LibGuide, which I admit needs a little freshening, but at some point, we may catalog the guide and hopefully this will point users to open access resources. 



Beth M. Johns, MLIS

E-Resources Librarian

Saginaw Valley State University

Melvin J. Zahnow Library



From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum <SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG> on behalf of Igor Hammer <igor.hammer@UB.UNIBE.CH>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 8:33 AM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: [SERIALST] OA-titles in library catalogues and link resolvers
 

Hello,

 

Our library tries to find ways to make Open Access publications more visible for our customers. By now we have been very reluctant in adding those titles to our OPAC; we do it only when we are asked to do so. We also use SFX and Intota: there we activate most of the packages with free- or OA-titles. But as those packages often contain hundreds or thousands of titles, we are not able to control this content. Therefore we add the information "Free full text available for some or all content. Article availability is subject to change without notice, according to publisher decision." in bold and red. This is very correct but I'm afraid that it scares people off rather than attract them to use those journals.

 

Now my questions to you:

what's your policy regarding OA-titles in your OPAC or activation OA-titles in your link resolver? I'm looking for good ideas how to promote those journals without too much efforts.  

How can we easily discriminate between valuable OA-titles and rubbish?

 

Of course we are well aware that OA in itself is not a reason to choose a journal. But we would like to contribute that good OA-titles find their public and to show students, researchers and teachers that there exist good alternatives to expensive journals; thus maybe affecting their publishing behaviour ;-)

 

Best regards

 

Igor

 

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Universität Bern

Universitätsbibliothek Bern

E-Library

 

Igor Hammer

I+D-Spezialist

 

Hochschulstrasse 6

3012 Bern

Schweiz

Tel. +41 31 631 95 89

igor.hammer@ub.unibe.ch 

http://www.ub.unibe.ch

 

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