[Original posting on this topic appears below; the responses follow it.]
From: "Quinn, Brian" <brian.quinn_at_ttu.edu>
Collection Development Colleagues,
Can any of you please tell me how you are collecting open access journals?
Our library has a link to the Directory of Open Access Journals on our web
page, but we have not done anything beyond that. If anyone is developing
and maintaining a collection of open access journals, I would appreciate
hearing about the process that you use to do this.
Thanks very much for your comments.
Best Regards,
Brian
Brian Quinn
Coordinator of Collection Development
Texas Tech University Libraries
Box 40002
Lubbock, TX 79409-0002
brian.quinn_at_ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 742-2236
Fax: (806) 742-1964
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(1) From: Marty Jenkins <martin.jenkins_at_wright.edu>
We buy MARC records and an "ejournal portal" system for our electronic
journals from Serials Solutions, and they include DOAJ and some other
free/open access collections in their coverage.
Martin Jenkins
Head, Technical Services
Wright State University Libraries
<mailto:martin.jenkins_at_wright.edu>martin.jenkins_at_wright.edu
(2) From: "Streby, Paul" <pgstreby_at_umflint.edu>
At the University of Michigan-Flint, we use Serials Solutions to manage our
electronic journal lists. In the Serials Solutions Client Center, I simply
added DOAJ, and our searchable lists (hosted at Serials Solutions and
updated every few days) now include DOAJ journals. If you have only a few
stray e-journals from a publisher, you can easily designate the titles you
actually have access to. For other library-specific titles, you can send a
spreadsheet to Serials Solutions with the titles you want included on the list.
Paul Streby
<mailto:pgstreby_at_umflint.edu>pgstreby_at_umflint.edu
(3) From: Catherine.Reiter_at_UCHSC.edu
We catalog all of our online journals (subscriptions that we pay for) in
our catalog and also include records for many "free" online titles. I
select OA titles for cataloging based on whether they are indexed in
PubMed/Medline or other health sciences databases. I'm not sure if this is
exactly what you meant but I'm interested in responses you get. Please
share. Thanks! -- Catherine
____________________________
Catherine M. Reiter, MA, AHIP
Head of Collection Development and Assistant Professor
Denison Memorial Library
Box A-003, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
4200 East Ninth Avenue / Denver, CO 80262-0003
303-315-6444 / 303-315-6255 (Fax) /
<mailto:Catherine.Reiter_at_uchsc.edu>Catherine.Reiter_at_uchsc.edu
(4) From: "Fitzpatrick, Karen" <KFitzpatrick_at_csu.edu.au>
Here at Charles Sturt University in Australia we have "collected" hundreds
of open access journals. We use our normal selection criteria, with a few
extras for the technology, and wherever we stumble across an open access
journal that fits the criteria, we add it to our catalogue. We don't make
any special efforts to find such title as they are constantly suggested to
us by academics and other library staff.
I do get update emails re new open access titles from BioMed Central but
otherwise it's just serendipity.
Karen Fitzpatrick
Manager, Collection Services
Wagga Wagga Campus Library
Charles Sturt University
Wagga Wagga, NSW, 2701
Ph: 02 69332136
Fax: 02 6932900
Email: <mailto:kfitzpatrick_at_csu.edu.au>kfitzpatrick_at_csu.edu.au
Website: <http://www.csu.edu.au>www.csu.edu.au
(5) From: "Jonathan H. Harwell" <jharwell_at_beowulf.mhsl.uab.edu>
Our wonderful cataloging department has added many open access
journals to our OPAC, including over 800 titles from the Directory
of Open Access Journals. They also add additional titles upon
request, such as the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies,
which I stumbled across and asked them to add recently. As I
understand it, they've done all this with a method similar to the way
they've added JSTOR, ScienceDirect, HighWire, and other records
to the OPAC. You can see our list of open access journals via this
title search in our catalog: opaj fsub
Our catalog is at http://www.mhsl.uab.edu
If you'd like more information, you might contact Susan Holt, Head
of Cataloging, at sholt_at_beowulf.mhsl.uab.edu
Hope this helps!
Jonathan H. Harwell
Reference Librarian for Education
Mervyn H. Sterne Library
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
SL 135
1530 3rd Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35294-0014
USA
(205) 934-8496
jharwell_at_uab.edu
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mesoj
(6) From: Heather Martin <hmartin_at_beowulf.mhsl.uab.edu>
We are cataloging open access journals, based on
recommendations from our reference bibliographers. The records
can be searched and the journals linked to from our local catalog.
We have cataloged the titles in Directory of Open Access Journals
in addition to other journal titles or collections chosen by subject
librarians.
Our library made a decision to coordinate access to electronic
journals (licensed or open access) through our local catalog. We
don't maintain a separate Web page with links to electronic
journals. We do have access to an Online Journals List (via Serials
Solutions) that is shared with the health sciences library on
campus. I think this covers our licensed journal subscriptions and
full text in licensed databases, not open access titles.
Heather Martin
Arts & Humanities Librarian
Mervyn H. Sterne Library
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
phone: 205.934.6364
e-mail: hmartin_at_beowulf.mhsl.uab.edu
Received on Sat Feb 12 2005 - 03:08:19 EST