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

[Guidry, Wade]

Thanks a great idea, Greg.

Such an effort could be as easy has splitting the list of available OA resources into smaller subsets, and let different people review different sets of resources (maybe by subject areas).

And then making recommendations about which resources are of value.

It might also be useful for participants to agree on some common set of evaluation criteria, such as:


  1.  Links as presented in Primo work accurately
  2.  Content is of subject value
  3.  Collection content does not overwhelm other content in Primo search results
  4.  Content provides enough metadata to be citable as a source (that is, if you click on 'citation' in Primo, you get a citation you can use)
  5.  For bonus points, on recommended content, indicate whether it might be a suitable replacement for a known (and fee-driven) collection (you'll win bonus points from administration or that one)


Wade Guidry
Library Consortium Services Manager, WACTCLC
wadeg at bigbend.edu<mailto:wadeg at bigbend.edu>
(509) 760-4474


From: Wactclc-primo [mailto:wactclc-primo-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Bem, Greg
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Subject: [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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