24 · SPEC Kit 300
Selected Comments from Respondents
“Access links interpreted as both individual item links and portal (ex. Arxiv.org).”
“All the same channels as non-OA resources. This is a very difficult question to answer as we generally do not
distinguish OA from other resources.”
“Legal documents are in the process of being listed on the Law Library Web pages.”
“Open access resources (journals and monographs) are profiled in our ERM but not made public through this
system.”
“Other resource: databases such as MEDLINE/PubMed.”
“Our institutional repository is hosted by a remote vendor.”
“Our IR is externally hosted.”
“We have a separate e-journals section on our Web page that makes DOAJ and other open access journals
available through SFX. If a librarian requests that a Web site be cataloged, an OPAC record is created.
Commercial databases often contain open access content we pay for the power of the search engine.”
“We’ve checked many item types for Library Web Page because our link resolver interface (“FindIt”)
constitutes a Web page that pulls in results including all sorts of document types from our locally and
externally held collections, as well as the open Web.”
4. What is the approximate number of OA titles to which the library provides links? N=57
Locally Hosted Titles N=36
N Minimum Maximum Mean Median Std Dev
Journals 22 1 2,567 170.4 4.5 575.5
Theses and dissertations 22 13 14,000 2,670.0 493.0 4,003.8
Monographs 14 1 5,000 469.9 45.0 1,316.5
Technical reports 8 4 7,761 1,627.8 170.0 2,854.8
Conference papers 4 2 400 165.3 129.5 197.3
Government documents 4 1 725,000 188,775.3 15,050.0 357,761.9
Legal documents 3 1 150 50.7 1.0 86.0
Other resource 18 1 5,000,000 296,762.2 411.0 1,175,093.0
Please specify other resource.
American Memory
Campus publications
Selected Comments from Respondents
“Access links interpreted as both individual item links and portal (ex. Arxiv.org).”
“All the same channels as non-OA resources. This is a very difficult question to answer as we generally do not
distinguish OA from other resources.”
“Legal documents are in the process of being listed on the Law Library Web pages.”
“Open access resources (journals and monographs) are profiled in our ERM but not made public through this
system.”
“Other resource: databases such as MEDLINE/PubMed.”
“Our institutional repository is hosted by a remote vendor.”
“Our IR is externally hosted.”
“We have a separate e-journals section on our Web page that makes DOAJ and other open access journals
available through SFX. If a librarian requests that a Web site be cataloged, an OPAC record is created.
Commercial databases often contain open access content we pay for the power of the search engine.”
“We’ve checked many item types for Library Web Page because our link resolver interface (“FindIt”)
constitutes a Web page that pulls in results including all sorts of document types from our locally and
externally held collections, as well as the open Web.”
4. What is the approximate number of OA titles to which the library provides links? N=57
Locally Hosted Titles N=36
N Minimum Maximum Mean Median Std Dev
Journals 22 1 2,567 170.4 4.5 575.5
Theses and dissertations 22 13 14,000 2,670.0 493.0 4,003.8
Monographs 14 1 5,000 469.9 45.0 1,316.5
Technical reports 8 4 7,761 1,627.8 170.0 2,854.8
Conference papers 4 2 400 165.3 129.5 197.3
Government documents 4 1 725,000 188,775.3 15,050.0 357,761.9
Legal documents 3 1 150 50.7 1.0 86.0
Other resource 18 1 5,000,000 296,762.2 411.0 1,175,093.0
Please specify other resource.
American Memory
Campus publications
