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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> Portland State University Library
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