Open Access Resources, SPEC Kit 300 (September 2007)

Hood, Anna K.

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Selected Comments from Respondents
“793 is visible to patrons.”
“A ‘globe’ icon identifies Open Access resources on our Index &Database list.”
“Campus forums.”
“Contact faculty.”
“Discuss in meeting with faculty groups.”
“ERM gateway indicates OA resources in note.”
“Faculty discussion/presentations, University Committees.”
“Faculty office visits.”
“Faculty presentations information in our IR brochure using SPARC brochures.”
“Held a forum in 2005 on OA publishing.”
“In preparation: invitational session for OA contributors campus-wide: survey of OA awareness and
participation.”
“In the course of collection assessment reports to faculty have identified OA resources and as a result have
added them to OPAC or Web pages.”
“Meetings with faculty groups distribution to all faculty of ACRL/ARL open access flyer.”
“Open access is a major topic in current discussions with faculty and with the Council on Libraries.”
“Provide special search functionality in the library’s Web site to search only free and open access materials.
Meet with faculty to discuss open access alternatives for publication. Discuss during departmental meetings
issues surrounding economics of publishing and open access. DOAJ, PubMed Central, and BioMed Central
journals are cataloged separately and identifiable via our local OPAC.”
“RSS feeds generated from catalog.”
“Some OA information is included in the Scholarly Communication Web pages.”
“We treat OA resources like other resources.”
“Web site designed to advocate open access issues.”
“Worked with university to establish campus OA fund to support publishing fees.”
17. Does the library promote OA resources any differently than other electronic resources? N=67
Yes 17 25%
No 50 75%

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usage stats from the vendor.”
“Locally hosted: server logs and repository software. Externally hosted: report from SFX of statistics for
collections of OA journals in the SFX knowledgebase.”
“Locally hosted: tracked on Web page by internal counter. Externally hosted: tracked by in-house internal
counter.”
“Locally hosted: we have usage statistics for documents in our institutional repository. Externally hosted: we
have usage statistics for some OA titles in our link resolver (SFX), for examples titles in the DOAJ (Directory of
Open Access Journals) list.”
“Locally: local Web server usage stats. Externally: primarily Ser.Solutions for journals.”
“Statistics are gathered via the SFX Linkresolver for those in SFX. DSpace software used for the Research
Exchange provides usage statistics.”
“Usage reporting built into system.”
“We track OA titles locally in the same manner that we track other resources through our home grown
Electronic Resources Web interface however, we do not distinguish OA from other online resources.”
“We track usage of our online resources if possible. We use statistics from publishers whenever possible, and
also collect ‘click through’ statistics for our electronic journals. For OA monograph publications, we have little
or no tracking of usage.”
“Web logs, Serials Solutions reports, in some cases usage logs in COUNTER format from open access sites that
provide this.”
Promoting Use of OA Resources
16. Please indicate what methods the library has used to help library staff and users understand
what open access is and to alert library users to the availability of OA resources. Check all that
apply. N=56
Include OA resources in pathfinders or subject guides 44 79%
Discuss OA resources during instruction sessions 30 54%
Discuss OA resources in newsletter articles 27 48%
Library Web page that explains what OA resources are 26 46%
Discuss OA resources during the reference interview 25 45%
Send e-mail alerts about newly available OA resources 20 36%
Other method, please describe 20 36%

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If yes, please briefly explain the difference.
Selected Comments from Respondents
“For OA documents in our institutional repository, our Digital Initiatives staff notify the library of new
electronic theses and dissertations, new collections of other documents, or updates in the number of items
available.”
“Generally, we would not, but as this is something new to researchers, we have a larger awareness campaign
to undertake. Researchers have questions about author fees, etc. which we need to explain. Promotion then
focuses on some of the unique issues with OA resources and why the library supports these resources.”
“Highlight in newsletters.”
“In larger context of scholarly communication issues.”
“In sense that we promote in communications with faculty and grad students about scholarly communication
issues we don’t promote differently in terms of resource usage.”
“Locally digitized collections (state docs and cultural heritage materials) promoted through conference
presentations, press releases, posters, etc.”
“OA resources get much less attention when it comes to marketing. We are having a hard time reaching our
patrons with the promotion of paid resources. We just have not put much effort into promoting OA resources.”
“Resources that are paid for tend to get higher level of ‘press.’”
“There tends to be less emphasis on OA resources than on purchased e-resources. OA is of lower priority to
promote as a whole. However, if a valuable resource in a field of study happened to be OA, there would be no
hesitancy in promoting and providing access.”
“These are targeted for examples of changes in Scholarly Communication model.”
“We have a robust Scholarly Communications outreach program. The promotion of OA resources and
publishing alternatives is key to our Scholarly Communication education plan.”
“We do promote our institutional repository more aggressively than other OA resources.”
“We have a Web page that indicates discounts available to faculty to support publication in author pays type
open access resources. As part of our promotion of UC eScholarship, we discuss opportunities for establishing
new open-access journals with faculty who are interested.”
“We have promoted DOAJ and PLos as scholarly publishing models for the common good of the academic
community and models with high potential for sustainability.”
“We promote our online journal application—a modification of the open source OJS system—as a service
provided by the libraries’ repository.”
“We tend to more heavily promote resources for which the library has paid.”
“Yes, they are featured in campus-wide newsletters.”

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