[Wactclc-primo] [External] RE: Summer Project: Auditing Open Access Collections in PCI

[Herman, Amy]

Thanks Nina!  All I could find were my notes from our many meetings, not this final list that we sent out.  Here is what I have in my notes about each collection that we recommended for deactivation in PCI. Some collections may have been deleted or renamed and I'm sure they've added others by now.  We were using SFX for our link resolver at the time.

Also, we may have unilaterally deactivated others for the consortium because I remember Dandy Booksellers really being awful for everyone and deactivating it, yet it's not on this list.



British Standards: have to create an account to view anything; not on Alternative Coverage list

Henry Stewart Talks:  demo only, can't view full videos

IGI Global Books: lots of broken links, not on Alternative Coverage

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: lots of broken links, not on Alternative Coverage

Kotar: in Hebrew, Alternative Coverage, possible paywall

NARCIS: connects to SFX page that doesn't link to articles

NDLTD: loads slowly, in French and German, needed login

Plunkett Research Ltd: video archive and industry almanac, cannot access because of paywall

SPIE  SPIE Digital Library: No full text links/resolvers

OECD -- OECD iLibrary: many articles in French, many broken links in EBSCO's Academic Search Premier

Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing -- RSC Journals: "Free" content requires a login

Réseau des Bibliothèques de l'Université de Liège (University of Liège Libraries) -- PoPuPS Journals: must use English limiter, links to DOAJ broken for some journals, some links go to journal level rather than article level

Sabinet  --SA ePublications: Resolves to title, not article, although articles are full text when you finally get to them

SciELO : English language limiter does not work

Società editrice il Mulino : Terrible link resolving, no English language filtering

·         Darwinbooks

·         La revista il Mulino

·         il Mulino Journals

Spandidos Publications Ltd.: No full text link resolving

Taylor & Francis Group -- Taylor & Francis Online : Many paywalls, and failed access to full text in many cases

The British Library -- EThOS Electronic Theses Online Service : Messy/failed link resolving, proxy errors

World Scientific Publishing Co. -- World Scientific Journals : failed links for eBrary although it worked for JSTOR, Credo, Ebsco




Amy Herman
Library Faculty | Olympic College
1600 Chester Avenue | Bremerton, WA 98337
aherman at olympic.edu<mailto:aherman at olympic.edu> | 360-475-7256

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From: Wactclc-primo <wactclc-primo-bounces at lists.ctc.edu> On Behalf Of Nina Pitts
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2018 11:52 AM
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Subject: [External] RE: [Wactclc-primo] Summer Project: Auditing Open Access Collections in PCI

I found the list, Amy! The small group was really diligent, and your work made a huge difference for us!

When we first went to Primo through ORCA, each institution filled out a workbook about which resources to activate. Peninsula chose a very short list of activations from the "free" resources that were available at the time, because of problems like no full-text available, lots of broken links, etc. (Our original activation list is attached, FYI.)

Then we (the ORCA libraries collectively) discovered that ExL had treated us as a consortium with "consortial inheritance", which meant that a number of free resources had been activated for us whether we requested them or not. So the small group checked every collection. The list Amy refers to is also attached. I'm not sure about the exact criteria used, but the results were a vast improvement over the "consortial" activations. Maybe these can help the new efforts, too.

Nina

Nina Pitts
Library Supervisor
Peninsula College Library/Media Center
1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Port Angeles, WA 98362
(360) 417-6274
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From: Wactclc-primo [mailto:wactclc-primo-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Herman, Amy
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2018 9:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [Wactclc-primo] [External] Summer Project: Auditing Open Access Collections in PCI

A small group of us did this the first time the ORCA libraries went to Primo, because we all had to share one PCI and needed to accommodate all member libraries' subscription collections, while weeding out the junky, ahem...less useful, "free" collections.  We went through every single collection in PCI to determine which ones were actually good quality, didn't make you create an account first, were primary in English, etc. then sent out a recommendation to our member libraries.   I'll see if I can find our criteria and our final list, which might speed things along this go-around.   I would be interested again in participating if time allows.

Amy Herman
Library Faculty | Olympic College
1600 Chester Avenue | Bremerton, WA 98337
aherman at olympic.edu<mailto:aherman at olympic.edu> | 360-475-7256

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From: Wactclc-primo <wactclc-primo-bounces at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:wactclc-primo-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>> On Behalf Of Bem, Greg
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Subject: [External] [Wactclc-primo] Summer Project: Auditing Open Access Collections in PCI

Greetings, folks,

Last summer LWTech started activating open access collections in the Primo Central Index as a way to leverage freely-available, high quality information made available through the platform. The librarians at LWTech had several criteria for "turning on" and leaving on a collection (including ensuring the collection had actual items populating in Primo, that there was no paywall or login wall, and that the majority of the contents are in English-with some exceptions).

It's been a year and now Sue Wozniak and I are interested in looking at the efficacy and quality of the collections once again. We're looking at exploring the collections and collecting both quantitative and qualitative data on them, since Ex Libris doesn't do a good job at it. Even more importantly, we're interested in seeing what disciplines the collections are aligned with (based on what academic programs are run at our school).

If anyone is interested in collaborating, Sue and I would be open to a work group or other more organized initiative. The goal would be to get this completely done from start to finish in July and August (so it's a quick project), with the understanding that it would be revisited each Summer in new iterations.

Please reach out if you're interested in participating or have any general thoughts on the OA collections in PCI.

Thanks,

Greg
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