46 · SPEC Kit 300
Additional Comments
18. Please enter any additional information regarding open access resources at your library that
may assist the author in accurately analyzing the results of this survey.
Selected Comments from Respondents
“Local consortium is producing shared catalogue records for provincial open access government publications.”
“OA titles fully integrated into our e-resources policies &procedures. We support alternative titles in our
subject areas, e.g., by purchase of relevant SPARC titles.”
“Open access resources are fully integrated into library selection and processing practices, and library
discovery tools. Library bibliographers are communicating with faculty about open access issues and
opportunities. Bibliographers’ Annual Reports include a Scholarly Communication section: ‘Describe any faculty
involvement in open access publishing initiatives.’ Inclusion of this section helps promote and record results of
conversations on this topic, and identify specific resources where appropriate to the subject area.”
“Open access resources are not treated any differently than any other resources we wish to promote. We
always try to match the appropriate resource to the need our patron expresses. If the need can be fulfilled by
the use of an open access resource, the resource will be included in the recommendations.”
“Use and promotion of use of open access resources varies by subject area selector and bibliographer. Some
staff actively seek out these resources and ask for them to be cataloged. Some selectors never do.”
“We don’t have a collection policy for OA materials. If a resource is identified in a subject area relevant to the
university, we add it like any paid resource. We are just beginning an institutional repository though we do
have some cool local resources available through the library.”
“We found several of these questions difficult to answer, since we don’t really think of OA titles as different
from anything else. They are woven into our overall selection and access mechanisms is such a way that makes
it difficult to tease out minor differences in approach.”
“We have a vast collection of e-material. We have challenge enough with cataloging all parts of our ‘paid for’
resources. Consequently, the shifting sands of OA get less treatment. On the other hand, OhioLINK and Serials
Solutions allow us to track major portions of the OA journal collections through tools that are heavily used
locally.”
“We have created a small OA repository of local reports, pre-prints and other documents, but they are not yet
widely available via OAI.”
“We host journals using Open Journal Systems and conference proceedings using Open Conference Systems.”
“While we are happy to take advantage of OA resources by linking to them once they’ve been identified as
valuable, we have rarely made any push to add them to our resources (an exception would be BioMed Central
we have tried to add all its journals, and the free backfiles from HighWire Press). Our efforts have been
focused mainly on paid resources and there has never been time to do much to seek out OA resources.”
Additional Comments
18. Please enter any additional information regarding open access resources at your library that
may assist the author in accurately analyzing the results of this survey.
Selected Comments from Respondents
“Local consortium is producing shared catalogue records for provincial open access government publications.”
“OA titles fully integrated into our e-resources policies &procedures. We support alternative titles in our
subject areas, e.g., by purchase of relevant SPARC titles.”
“Open access resources are fully integrated into library selection and processing practices, and library
discovery tools. Library bibliographers are communicating with faculty about open access issues and
opportunities. Bibliographers’ Annual Reports include a Scholarly Communication section: ‘Describe any faculty
involvement in open access publishing initiatives.’ Inclusion of this section helps promote and record results of
conversations on this topic, and identify specific resources where appropriate to the subject area.”
“Open access resources are not treated any differently than any other resources we wish to promote. We
always try to match the appropriate resource to the need our patron expresses. If the need can be fulfilled by
the use of an open access resource, the resource will be included in the recommendations.”
“Use and promotion of use of open access resources varies by subject area selector and bibliographer. Some
staff actively seek out these resources and ask for them to be cataloged. Some selectors never do.”
“We don’t have a collection policy for OA materials. If a resource is identified in a subject area relevant to the
university, we add it like any paid resource. We are just beginning an institutional repository though we do
have some cool local resources available through the library.”
“We found several of these questions difficult to answer, since we don’t really think of OA titles as different
from anything else. They are woven into our overall selection and access mechanisms is such a way that makes
it difficult to tease out minor differences in approach.”
“We have a vast collection of e-material. We have challenge enough with cataloging all parts of our ‘paid for’
resources. Consequently, the shifting sands of OA get less treatment. On the other hand, OhioLINK and Serials
Solutions allow us to track major portions of the OA journal collections through tools that are heavily used
locally.”
“We have created a small OA repository of local reports, pre-prints and other documents, but they are not yet
widely available via OAI.”
“We host journals using Open Journal Systems and conference proceedings using Open Conference Systems.”
“While we are happy to take advantage of OA resources by linking to them once they’ve been identified as
valuable, we have rarely made any push to add them to our resources (an exception would be BioMed Central
we have tried to add all its journals, and the free backfiles from HighWire Press). Our efforts have been
focused mainly on paid resources and there has never been time to do much to seek out OA resources.”
