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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