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Laurie Kaplan (speaker), Jean-Claude Guédon (speaker), Sommer Browning (speaker)
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Metadata and Open Access: Reliably Finding Content and
Finding Reliable Content
Moderated by Laurie Kaplan Director of Editorial Operations
ProQuest: Serials Solutions Content Operations team
November 8, 2013
Conference Hashtag #chs13
“digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions”
First Open Access Journal
9,900 journals
From 123 countries
“potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access”
Almost 290 About 450
• What is questionable - all of the research of all of the authors in these journals or just the publishing and peer review process?
• Should the author’s paper be ignored based on a poor choice of where to publish in the pursuit of making the data and analysis available online quickly?
• And how does a researcher know what materials to trust?
• As a global directory of periodicals, including journals, magazines, newspapers and other serials, we strive to list everything published resource we learn about, and even announced for publication resources.
• We leave the scrutiny of individual publishers’ author engagement to librarians and researchers.
• We include Open Access publications among the Ulrich’s titles reviewed by the professional librarians of Magazines for Libraries, another ProQuest publication.
• Several well-known commercial publishers have joined the Open Access movement, creating fully open journals, or hybrids that incorporate open articles in otherwise subscription journals.
• Are these publications more trustworthy? • And many aggregators, including ProQuest, have begun to include Open
Access journals in their collections in order to make available in one database all of the relevant subject-related materials for a researcher.
• Does the inclusion of an open access article by an aggregator confer legitimacy, or is it up to the researcher to determine the quality of the article?
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Metadata and Open Access: Reliably Finding Content and
Finding Reliable Content
• Sommer Browning • Head of Head of Electronic Access
& Discovery Services • University of Colorado, Denver,
Auraria Library • Librarian perspective
• (Slides follow)
• Jean-Claude Guédon • Professor, Department of
Comparative Literature • University of Montreal, Quebec,
Canada • Perspective of a researcher • (No slides)
METADATA AND OPEN ACCESS:
RELIABLY FINDING CONTENT AND
FINDING RELIABLE CONTENT
Looking at How Auraria Library Uses & Discovers Open Access Material
Presented by Sommer Browning
Head of Electronic Resources Access & Discovery Services
Auraria Library, University of Colorado, Denver
November 8, 2013
AURARIA LIBRARY
Auraria Library serves the
students, faculty, and staff of
three leading urban institutions:
University of Colorado Denver;
Metropolitan State University of
Denver; and Community College
of Denver.
OPEN ACCESS AT AURARIA
We do not have an official institutional or library open
access policy.
When you think about open access the typical Auraria
patron does not come to mind.
When we do track open access resources, we don’t always
have a positive experience.
OPEN ACCESS DISCOVERY PROBLEMS
All of the usual electronic access issues (broken links,
missing content, platform changes), but OA access issues
are particularly hard to resolve.
Access can be out of the library’s hands
(HathiTrust/Scirus).
OA discovery issues can affect other departments.
METADATA THAT WOULD HELP US
PROMOTE AND USE OPEN ACCESS
MATERIALS
Metadata to find or exclude OA resources
Metadata to help us troubleshoot OA resources
OA TAGS OR ICONS
OPEN ACCESS FACET IN SUMMON
Let us refine the search to Open Access content only
MORE CONTROL OVER OUR METADATA
More transparency about metadata
Where is it coming from?
What are the standards?
How is this journal indexed? How is this database harvested?
Make analysis easy
Make customization easy
METADATA TO HELP US TROUBLESHOOT
Contact information
Email addresses
Editors’ names Statements of responsibility
Platforms
Browsers
Pop-up blockers
WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP? Report, report, report. Crowdsourcing is a powerful way to keep the
metadata for these journals up to date.
Become more familiar with NISO standards and cite them vendors and publishers.
Specification for Open Access Metadata and Indicators
http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/9845/Open%20Access%20Metadata%20-%20Work%20Item%20for%20ballot.pdf
Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery
http://www.niso.org/news/pr/view/www.niso.org/workrooms/odi/
OPEN ACCESS WORLD?!
And in conclusion, a plea!
Serials Solutions, will you create one huge publically
accessible Open Access Summon instance that includes
all the open access content you index?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
And have a great conference!
Sommer Browning: [email protected]
Jean-Claude Guédon: [email protected]
Laurie Kaplan: [email protected]
Thank you!
