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If no, please explain how they differ.
Selected Comments from Respondents
“Although we do not have anything formal about OA resources in our collection development (CD) policy, the
CD Department has worked through criteria which we hope to add to our policy related to OA e-resources
added to our OPAC. They include the permanence and reliability of a resource. Currently, subject librarians can
choose at their own discretion what to add to their subject guides (which they maintain individually).”
“Because of Google Scholar, PubMed, and MS Academic Live links we’ve decided to add all Open Access
resources available through DOAJ and other resources listed in Serials Solutions in our Open URL resolver,
ERM, and OPAC. We decided that we’d look silly trying to explain to our faculty why we weren’t subscribing to
high quality free publications. Given the number of open access titles in DOAJ, over 2000 at the time, it was
quicker to accept all than to have the selectors review all the titles and pick the ones that they wanted.”
“Collection Policy Statements are in the process of being revised with respect to selecting electronic
resources.”
“It depends on the type of resource. Open access journals are treated much the same as other journals.
Reports, archives, theses, and other documents harvested from OAI sites are not analyzed with the same
criteria as journals.”
“Policy needs to be reviewed to reflect current scholarly publication environment.”
“The library is in the midst of documenting/creating collection development policies, so it’s possible that OA
resources might be included in an electronic resources policy.”
“There’s a separate committee that decides which OA resources are cataloged. Also, from SFX, we link to
DOAJ content rather than individually selecting titles.”
“To the extent that cataloging services can maintain records, all Directory of Open Access Journals are in the
OPAC. This is true for the open-URL resolver as well (package level profiling rather than title-level).”
“We add all DOAJ, etc., not title-by-title selection as we do for purchases.”
Additional Comments
“All resources must support teaching, learning, and research at our university. Collection development policies
guide the selection of material, without necessarily referring to material type or source.”
“Although we try to support the OA concept, we select based on relevance to our user community, regardless
of cost model.”
“At this point in time, we consider OA resources on the same merits as any other resource being reviewed for
acquisition.”
“Collection development librarians are able to recommend OA titles be added to the OPAC and subject
guides/library Web pages.”
If no, please explain how they differ.
Selected Comments from Respondents
“Although we do not have anything formal about OA resources in our collection development (CD) policy, the
CD Department has worked through criteria which we hope to add to our policy related to OA e-resources
added to our OPAC. They include the permanence and reliability of a resource. Currently, subject librarians can
choose at their own discretion what to add to their subject guides (which they maintain individually).”
“Because of Google Scholar, PubMed, and MS Academic Live links we’ve decided to add all Open Access
resources available through DOAJ and other resources listed in Serials Solutions in our Open URL resolver,
ERM, and OPAC. We decided that we’d look silly trying to explain to our faculty why we weren’t subscribing to
high quality free publications. Given the number of open access titles in DOAJ, over 2000 at the time, it was
quicker to accept all than to have the selectors review all the titles and pick the ones that they wanted.”
“Collection Policy Statements are in the process of being revised with respect to selecting electronic
resources.”
“It depends on the type of resource. Open access journals are treated much the same as other journals.
Reports, archives, theses, and other documents harvested from OAI sites are not analyzed with the same
criteria as journals.”
“Policy needs to be reviewed to reflect current scholarly publication environment.”
“The library is in the midst of documenting/creating collection development policies, so it’s possible that OA
resources might be included in an electronic resources policy.”
“There’s a separate committee that decides which OA resources are cataloged. Also, from SFX, we link to
DOAJ content rather than individually selecting titles.”
“To the extent that cataloging services can maintain records, all Directory of Open Access Journals are in the
OPAC. This is true for the open-URL resolver as well (package level profiling rather than title-level).”
“We add all DOAJ, etc., not title-by-title selection as we do for purchases.”
Additional Comments
“All resources must support teaching, learning, and research at our university. Collection development policies
guide the selection of material, without necessarily referring to material type or source.”
“Although we try to support the OA concept, we select based on relevance to our user community, regardless
of cost model.”
“At this point in time, we consider OA resources on the same merits as any other resource being reviewed for
acquisition.”
“Collection development librarians are able to recommend OA titles be added to the OPAC and subject
guides/library Web pages.”
