Open Access Resources, SPEC Kit 300 (September 2007)

Hood, Anna K.

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Selected Comments from Respondents
“Catalogers who describe OA resources in the catalog have a greater role, though they select based on
recommendations of bibliographers.”
“Currently most relevant decisions are by Digital Repository development staff. Policy will become more
inclusive in time.”
“Final decision about electronic resource purchase is made by collection development librarian (and for
bigger purchases the library administration is involved as well). Collection Development Librarian does not get
involved in the decision making process for most OA resources, addition of OA resources to library Web site
and OPAC is based on liaison’s request.”
“It is initiated by different staff and handled differently. E-resources staff or others in acquisitions learn of a
collection of free resources and ask selectors if they want to add the whole group of resources or not add it.
It’s all or nothing at this point in time.”
“Right now, as we start, a team is identifying resources, but our plan is for department liaisons to be the
decision point for including items, once we are further along.”
“Sometimes they are the same, but other times due to the large number of records that could be harvested,
we do not go through the same process.”
8. Does your library provide financial support to any OA journals, including payment of author
fees or article processing charges for local faculty, either directly or through a consortium?
N=67
N
Locally Hosted
N=50
Externally Hosted
N=66
Yes 48 18 45
No 37 32 21
If yes, please briefly explain the type of financial support.
Selected Comments from Respondents
Locally Hosted Only
“Library’s journal publications are hosted and are OA.”
Externally Hosted Only
“BioMed Central membership. NB: For locally hosted resources, we’re not including staff time and support for
processing OA resources, but of course there is some cost associated with staff supporting these.”

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“Collection managers make selections on the basis of content and suitability for our users’ teaching and
research needs. The manner of publication should have no bearing on the selection process.”
“Collection policy thus far is format agnostic.”
“Criteria are the same except for any criteria that involve pricing.”
“Items are selected based on suitability for collection and their support of the university’s academic mission. A
more formal collection development policy is currently in development.”
“OA resources are individually selected by collection managers, except in the case of our link resolver where
OA journals are enabled by default.”
“Open Access resources must meet the same quality standards as other materials that the library acquires.”
“The criteria used are not different. We question though the economic model of some open access resources
that transfer the production costs from the authors to the libraries: open access resources are in those cases
more expensive than commercial ones. For example, BioMed Central: the more our researchers publish in those
journals, the more expensive it is for the libraries.”
“The special criteria for online resources relate to technical issues otherwise the policies deal with subject/
level criteria which cover all formats. Open access is not an issue, except in that we can immediately link to
desirable OA resources, but may have to delay purchase of restricted ones due to financial constraints.”
“We add open access titles to the collection as they become available, when the title is relevant to the
collection. The same selection criteria apply to open access titles as to any other library materials.”
“We do not differentiate on the basis of funding. We set criteria for content first, with a focus on relevance to
our research and teaching. Other criteria follow.”
“We link to OA materials (for example DOAJ-listed materials) with no special criteria. Individual subject
selectors may have their own criteria for requesting cataloging of OA materials.”
“We only add resources to our collection that meet our selection guidelines. The bar is neither higher nor
lower for open access materials.”
“We select on the basis of potential support for instruction, learning, and research. We consider cost, quality,
etc. I would like to develop a systematic approach to selecting OA materials.”
7. Are the library staff who make selection decisions for externally hosted OA resources the same
as those who make selection decisions for other electronic resources? N=67
Yes 61 91%
No 6 9%
If no, please briefly explain who selects OA resources and who selects other electronic resources.

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“BioMed Central—Supporters membership (discount to authors) PLoS Active Membership (discount to
authors).”
“D-LIB journal, BioMed Central contribution (not author fees).”
“Institutional memberships such as PLos, BioMed Central that provide discounted author’s fees for articles
accepted for publication.”
“Library pays for ‘memberships’ which allow for discounted author fees for our institutional authors.”
“OhioLINK fees.”
“The Library is a member of BioMed Central, and pays author/article fees for submissions. We are preparing an
institutional repository and will be subsidizing those expenses.”
“We are a member of PLOS. We provide a 30% reduction of author fees to faculty if they publish with PLOS.”
We provide membership and founding support for some OA resources, e.g., BioMed Central, Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. In some cases we pay ‘subscriptions,’ e.g., International Journal of Disability and
Rehabilitation, Nucleic Acid Research.”
“BioMed Central author fees are covered by a consortium group membership with the provider.”
“SPARC — charter member support Vanderbilt TV Archive — initial 2yr sponsor Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy — 3 yr membership BioMed Central membership — lowers author fees.”
“We cover 100% of BioMed Central article processing charge, and through PLoS membership provide 30% for
faculty authors. We also indirectly support other OA efforts—by maintaining subscriptions to journals with an
OA option and discounts for authors from subscribing institutions.”
Both Locally and Externally Hosted
“As an early member of SPARC, we have provided some financial support to the production of SPARC titles.
The College Library publishes one e-journal, and absorbs all costs.”
“Locally hosted — we host and provide technical support for OA journals connected with faculty/groups
at the university. Externally hosted — we have membership fees for OA journals such as BioMed Central
and PLoS, which offset the costs of author fees. We contribute funds towards projects such as the Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy.”
“Locally: library hosts at no charge. Externally: library subsidizes authors’ fees.”
“PLOS and PNAS discount for authors.”
“PubMed Central member SPARC member.”
“SPARC Membership SSRN Membership (law library) Server and support for locally hosted law journals and
ETD repository.”
“Support through subscription and/or author fee. We have done this on both the local and consortia level.”
“The libraries have a subscription to BioMed Central. The Libraries are hosting the online archive of locally

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