Hello, Martha and others.  We also use Serials Solutions and have added
some of the things you listed, including DOAJ, the Serials Solutions
freely accessible packages, and Pubmed Central.  These journals are
well-respected scholarly, and frequently, peer-reviewed journals.
Before we add a new product, we do an overlap analysis in Serials
Solutions which tells to what extent the databases overlap with one
another.  I was not aware of the others, though. Thank you for letting
us know.  I will go over this list with the other reference folks here
and see if they are something we want to add.  I find Serials Solutions
to be positively something that I don't think I would do as good of a
job without.

Barbara Pope, MALS
Reference/Periodicals Librarian
Axe Library
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg KS

Martha Coleman wrote:
> We use Serials Solution's Overlap Analysis to determine if there are
> unique titles or unique date coverage before adding a package.  Are you
> talking about packages such as the following?  I have included the
> number of unique titles/holdings dates for our library.  Considering
> the quality of some of the journals, I didn't feel that we could ignore
> them.
>
> AERA SIG Communication of Research (75)
> Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (5)
> Digital Library of the Commons (27)
> Directory of Open Access Journals (1906)
> Freely Accessible Arts & Humanities (226)
> (we have several of the Freely Accessible packages)
> Making of America Journals - Cornell (31)
> Making of America Journals - Michigan (22)
> PubMed Central (52)
> SORA - Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (6)
>
> Of course, the extra titles increase the cost of the Serials Solutions
> lease, but removing all of the extra titles would not have changed our
> price this year.  We bumped up to the next price grouping but it was
> due to adding paid databases.  I hope this is what you were asking
> about.
> Martha
>
> Powers, Susanna S wrote:
>
>
>
>> Apologies for cross-posting.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear serials community,    Does your library have a policy for including
>> open access publications in the local catalog or other web-based
>> discovery sources?    If so, we would appreciate hearing to what formal
>> extent you treat these titles to support your users' needs, and how
>> selective you are in representing them in alongside the traditional
>> (paid) electronic resources.     Thanks very much for your comments,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Susanna S. Powers
>> Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian
>> Tulane University
>> Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
>> 7001 Freret St.
>> New Orleans, LA 70118-5682
>> voice 504.247.1819
>> fax 504.862.8556
>> http://library.tulane.edu
>>
>>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Martha Coleman
> Reference/Serials Librarian
> U A Fort Smith - Boreham Library
> 5210 Grand Avenue   PO Box 3649
> Fort Smith,  AR  72913
> 479-788-7208     FAX 479-788-7209
> mcoleman@uafortsmith.edu
>
>