Sources and Strategies for Locating Free Materials Online

Open Access in Interlibrary Loan

Tina BaichWisconsin Library Association

October 24, 2012

Agenda• Open Access Defined• Open Access Resources• Workflow Suggestions

Open Access Defined• Internet-based• Free content• Free of most copyright restrictions

False Expectation

If more content is freely available,ILL requests will go down.

Borrowing requests @ IUP

0

2000

4000

6000

8000

10000

12000

Returnables Non-Returnables

8,268

10,867

6,135

11,422

FY 2010FY 2011

Open access requests @ IUP

050

100150200250300350400450

Open ETDs

265

53

433

54

FY 2010FY 2011

Open Access Resources• Books

o Google Bookso Internet Archiveo HathiTrust

Google Books

Internet Archive

HathiTrust

Open Access Resources• Journals

o Directory of Open Access Journalso PubMed Centralo Google Scholaro OpenURL resolver

DOAJ & PubMedCentral

Google Scholar

Open Access Resources• Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETDs)

o Institutional repositorieso Consortial repositorieso Canada Theses Portalo EThOSo MARC record URLs

Institutional Repositories

Consortial Repositories

Theses Canada Portal

EThOS

MARC record URLs (856)

Open Access Resources• Newspapers

o Wikipedia List of Online Newspaper Archives

o Historical Newspapers: Open Accesso Chronicling Americao Wisconsin Local History & Biography

Articles

Online Newspaper Archives Lists

Chronicling America

Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles

Open Access Resources -Various• Online Historical Directories Directory• OER Commons• International Music Score Library Project

Online Historical Directories Directory

OER Commons

International Music Score Library Project

General Resources - OpenDOAR& OAIster

Open access workflows• Fill and provide link• Fill, deliver file, and provide link• Cancel and provide link

Custom Emails

Add Lender Address

Email Routing Rule

Lender and System ID

Cancelling with Custom Reason

Curious about open access?• Baich, Tina. Opening interlibrary loan to open access. Interlending &

Document Supply 40, no. 1 (2012): 55-60. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2732

• Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Open access bibliography. http://digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm

• Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org/.• Morrison, Heather G. The dramatic growth of open access: implications

and opportunities for resource sharing. Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve 16, no. 3 (2006): 95-107.

• Poynder, Richard. “Open access: whom would you back?” Open and shut? http://poynder.blogspot.com/2009/03/open-access-who-would-you-back.html

• SPARC publications http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/papers/index.shtml

• Suber, Peter. Open access overview. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

THANK YOU!Questions? Comments?

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