I wanted to thank those of you who took the time to respond to my
questions regarding changing access to some DOAJ titles.  Your input and
suggestions are very helpful, such as adding an advisory note to alert
users, relying on Serials Solution, or simply taking a conservative
approach not to catalog DOAJ titles, but providing users with links to
DOAJ.  Although we currently have no way of tracking the content of DOAJ
in the catalog effectively, it seems to me this quality control can be
done if all parties are involved such as DOAJ, PAMS (publication access
management services such as Serials Solutions), or publishers.

We use the Innovative ERM module as well as Serials Solutions in our
library. We have created brief bib records and generated holdings data
for DOAJ titles in batch mode via ERM.  Ideally (we are hoping), if DOAJ
can monitor and ensure that all journals included in their database are
open access through constant updates on their side (publishers could
help in this effort), and Serials Solutions can provide us with updated
list of DOAJ titles on a regular basis (or if SS has a way of tracking
changing access), then, at the local level, we can periodically reload
DOAJ titles via ERM each time we receive new data from SS, and delete
the old existing DOAJ records from our database globally.

Right now, we manually delete those problematic titles from both the
library catalog and the Web A-Z journal list as they are identified.

Thanks,
- Jian
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Jian Wang,
Serials Catalog Libn & Serials/Docs Cataloging Coordinator
Portland State University Library
PO Box 1151, Portland, OR 97207-1151
p. 503.725.4574 | f. 503.725.5799
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Barbara Pope wrote:

> Hi, Jian.  Thanks for the update on this disturbing trend.  I will
> keep an eye out for this.  We use Serials Solutions to manage our
> electronic journals.  Although Serials Solutions does not track the
> changes for every single open access title, they do track the changes
> in the Directory of Open Access Journals.  The way I understand it,
> when there has been some kind of change, it shows up in our monthly
> data upload to our catalog.  We don't have to create and new MARC
> records on our own when this happens.  The other thing nice about this
> product is that you can set it up so that your print holdings show up
> in your a to z list and article linker also.  This saves our patrons a
> lot of time and makes them happier.
>
> Barbara Pope
>
> Jian (Jan) Wang wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> A recent post on the liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
>> <mailto:liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu> tells of a disturbing trend
>> among some "open access" journals to lock up most content as
>> subscription-only, offering only selected articles to
>> non-subscribers.  One of the titles mentioned is the /International
>> Journal of Molecular Sciences /(ISSN 1422-0067).  According to the
>> journal homepage, it still explicitly states that "IJMS is an open
>> access journal," but quickly browsing the journal table of contents,
>> one finds it is not full open access -- only selected articles are
>> (free access if author pays).  Therefore, IJMS no longer meets the
>> definition of OA as indicated in the posting.  I checked the
>> Directory of Open Access Journals website and found the title has
>> been removed from the DOAJ database already.
>>
>> Now I am seeking advice from those who catalog the DOAJ titles in
>> their library's online catalog.
>>
>> 1)  How do you handle the quality of open access of the DOAJ in your
>> catalog when access is no longer full open access, i.e., open
>> abstracts, delayed access or split journal access?
>>
>> 2)  Are you aware of any service or tools that can help libraries
>> track access changes at the DOAJ websites so that the library catalog
>> can be updated in a timely fashion?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your help and advice!
>>
>> - Jian
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>> Jian Wang,
>> Serials Catalog Libn & Serials/Docs Cataloging Coordinator
>> Portland State University Library
>> PO Box 1151, Portland, OR 97207-1151
>> p. 503.725.4574 | f. 503.725.5799
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