[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 ===#7=== From: "Kevil, L H." <KevilL_at_missouri.edu> Hi Brian, Our process is pretty simple and basic. Selectors have the right to put an e-journal in our A-Z list (TDNet.) There is no subject access. The e-journal is not catalogued. Journals we used to pay for that are now free to the world remain in the public catalogue. This is of course very hit-and-miss and probably shouldn't be considered collecting. Hunter L. Hunter KEVIL Collection Development Librarian University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, Missouri 65201
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Hi Brian, Our process is pretty simple and basic. Selectors have the right to put an e-journal in our A-Z list (TDNet.) There is no subject access. The e-journal is not catalogued. Journals we used to pay for that are now free to the world remain in the public catalogue. This is of course very hit-and-miss and probably shouldn't be considered collecting. Hunter L. Hunter KEVIL Collection Development Librarian University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, Missouri 65201 KevilL_at_missouri.edu 573-884-8760 "If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers." (Frederick the Great) "Google's mission: Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." -----Original Message----- From: owner-colldv-l_at_usc.edu [mailto:owner-colldv-l_at_usc.edu]On Behalf Of Lynn Sipe Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 12:43 PM To: colldv-l_at_usc.edu Subject: CDL-Open Access Journals (Responses #1-6) [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 ================================================================================================= (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 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 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) / 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 <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.eduReceived on Fri Feb 18 2005 - 03:08:16 EST