26 · SPEC Kit 300
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
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
