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monographs or technical reports, for instance, it is almost always to an externally hosted portal for
monographs or technical reports, etc., rather than cataloging or linking directly to a particular instance of a
monograph or technical report.”
“NB: Our numbers are for items, not titles, as institutional repositories generally do not count their contents
by titles included (unless the collections consist only of items easily measured on a title basis, e.g., theses and
dissertations).”
“Research Exchange includes back issues of journal titles, individual journal articles, and presentations by
individuals.”
“Since our collecting is based on value rather than source, we do not track this information.”
“Statistics for OA are not kept separately when their access is integrated with that of other materials.”
“This is not something we’ve counted as such, but I have estimated “journals” by including the titles in the
DOAJ plus 25%.”
“We have links for Open Access titles in all of the above categories however at this time there is no simple
way to count these categories individually.”
“We do not distinguish or have figures for open access resources.”
“We do not track whether an externally hosted resource is OA or not, so we can not provide those numbers.
Our locally hosted numbers do not include any previously published material that was converted as part of our
digitization efforts.”
We have 2481 URLs in our OPAC which are not restricted to our users only—these are freely available
resources of a variety of types, including 1388 DOAJ titles. It is not possible to determine which of the
remaining URLs are truly Open Access. These records cover most of the first 6 categories listed above.”
Selection
5. Does your library’s collection development policy specifically address criteria for selecting
externally hosted OA resources? N=68
Yes 11 16%
No 57 84%
6. Are the selection criteria for externally hosted OA resources the same as for other electronic
resources? N=62
Yes 49 79%
No 13 21%
monographs or technical reports, for instance, it is almost always to an externally hosted portal for
monographs or technical reports, etc., rather than cataloging or linking directly to a particular instance of a
monograph or technical report.”
“NB: Our numbers are for items, not titles, as institutional repositories generally do not count their contents
by titles included (unless the collections consist only of items easily measured on a title basis, e.g., theses and
dissertations).”
“Research Exchange includes back issues of journal titles, individual journal articles, and presentations by
individuals.”
“Since our collecting is based on value rather than source, we do not track this information.”
“Statistics for OA are not kept separately when their access is integrated with that of other materials.”
“This is not something we’ve counted as such, but I have estimated “journals” by including the titles in the
DOAJ plus 25%.”
“We have links for Open Access titles in all of the above categories however at this time there is no simple
way to count these categories individually.”
“We do not distinguish or have figures for open access resources.”
“We do not track whether an externally hosted resource is OA or not, so we can not provide those numbers.
Our locally hosted numbers do not include any previously published material that was converted as part of our
digitization efforts.”
We have 2481 URLs in our OPAC which are not restricted to our users only—these are freely available
resources of a variety of types, including 1388 DOAJ titles. It is not possible to determine which of the
remaining URLs are truly Open Access. These records cover most of the first 6 categories listed above.”
Selection
5. Does your library’s collection development policy specifically address criteria for selecting
externally hosted OA resources? N=68
Yes 11 16%
No 57 84%
6. Are the selection criteria for externally hosted OA resources the same as for other electronic
resources? N=62
Yes 49 79%
No 13 21%
