Open Access Resources, SPEC Kit 300 (September 2007)

Hood, Anna K.

Open Access Resources · 25
Conference abstracts, images
Department documents, working papers, etc
Digital photo collection
EAD images texts e-texts statistical &geospatial
Image repositories
Images
Internet sites, archives
Learning objects, archival materials
Loose articles
Pamphlets
Photos, meeting documents
Primary source documents
Speeches
Externally Hosted Titles N=50
N Minimum Maximum Mean Median Std Dev
Journals 46 12 33,284 4,945.5 3,102.5 6,214.7
Monographs 24 3 612,300 29,245.1 929.0 124,376.9
Government documents 22 800 215,000 40,900.4 37,155.0 44,613.1
Theses and dissertations 12 1 17,500 5,282.8 3,500.0 5,753.7
Technical reports 8 10 25,000 5,688.1 77.5 10,462.5
Conference papers 7 20 5,000 1,124.1 83.0 1,934.5
Legal documents 3 71 20,000 7,357.0 2,000.0 10,991.6
Other resource 12 2 1,000,000 84,482.8 42.5 288,324.5
Please specify other resource.
Collections
Databases
Image repositories
Indexes &databases
Internet sites, archives

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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

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Maps
Speeches
Working papers
Selected Comments from Respondents
“Although we provide access to government documents, we cannot generate a number for this category of
open-access titles. Estimate: c. 40,000.”
“Approximate OA journal count is 5733, there is no way for us to distinguish OA from free in our dataset.”
“Cannot determine number of external government docs. or ETDs.”
“Did not include free books in NetLibrary. If we had not purchased NetLibrary books, our users would not have
had access. The digitized archival collections consist of Winnipeg Blg. Index (4,200 items), Arctic Blue Books
(4,900), Tribune Photos (7,230), Canadian War Experience (10,000), Prairie Immigration (10,000), Manitoba.
ca (200,000). Learning objects: 25.”
“I do not have estimate of numbers because done via consortial arrangement.”
“Even approximate numbers would be difficult to provide. For example, various library units have digital
initiatives where the materials are made public. Each unit would have to be contacted and they in turn might
have to guess.”
“Figures are very approximate we don’t count open access materials separately, so these are estimates. Our
theses are generally open access via Library and Archives Canada, although we don’t generally direct our
own users to that site. We are a federal and provincial depository library, and so we have links to many open
access government documents. We would like to do more, but find it difficult to keep up even with links to the
resources we pay for.”
“I don’t at present (brand new ILS) have any way to count the numbers of open access titles to which we link.
Journals number is from our link resolver. Monographs number is a guess.”
“If we consider Web links, the number would be in the thousands.”
“Items have not been tagged in a systematic way to derive an accurate count.”
“Locally hosted resources: our institutional repository contains 622 documents as of February 22 the number
is not broken down by document types. “
“Number reported under journal include technical reports and proceedings. The SFX KB was used to find out
the number of active free journal collections. Some of those SFX free targets (collections) include journals,
technical reports, and conference proceedings. Links to government documents are included in our MARCIVE
records.”
“Numbers of journals and monographs are difficult to estimate because data identifying titles as open access
are often not available in bibliographic records.”
“Other than for journals, we have direct links to very few of the other OA resources. When we link to

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