Talk for the Forum for Interlending Conference 2014 on how to find and evaluate Open Access resouces and their usefulness for Interlibrary Loan/Document Supply

1. Leah Maughan
Digital Collections Librarian

2. What is Open Access?
What are we looking at when we
look at OA resources?
How can we find OA resources?
Tools and tricks
Supplying OA resources – some
examples
Q&A

3. OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES
Electronically available
Discoverable
Free to download to anyone with an internet connection
Free to re-use
Journal articles
Whole Journals
Books/Thesis
Slides/Conference Proceedings
Research items
Data

4. DIGITAL THESIS
Electronic thesis and dissertations, through archiving of electronic copies or
digitisation projects make unpublished thesis available electronically.
These works can be made discoverable online.
With permission from the author the full text can be made available for download
(and reuse)

5. HTTP://ETHOS.BL.UK/HOME.DO;JSESSIONID=D
4A3114287A70EFD3B6209418816033A

6. HTTP://WWW.DART-EUROPE.EU/BASIC-
SEARCH.PHP

7. HTTP://PQDTOPEN.PROQUEST.COM/SEARCH.H
TML

8. HTTP://TROVE.NLA.GOV.AU/BOOK/RESULT?L-
FORMAT=THESIS&SORTBY=DATEDESC&Q=&L-
AVAILABILITY=Y&L-AUSTRALIAN=Y

9. HTTP://WWW.COLLECTIONSCANADA.GC.CA/TH
ESESCANADA/INDEX-E.HTML

10. HTTP://WWW.BODLEIAN.OX.AC.UK/ORA/OXFO
RD_ETHESES

11. HTTP://OATD.ORG/

12. GOLD & GREEN
PEER REVIEW
PROCESS
Resear
ch
Published
PDF

13. Published
PDF
TRADITIONAL
PUBLICATION ROUTE

14. Published
PDF
GOLD
ROUTE
GREEN
ROUTE
GREEN
ROUTE

15. Published
PDF
GOLD
ROUTE
GREEN
ROUTE
GREEN
ROUTE

16. OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
Published OA articles use the Gold route
Gold is not an indication of quality
Is not always funded by Article Processing Charges
OA Journals can be fully Gold or Hybrid Gold
In a fully Gold OA Journal all articles can be accessed by anyone with an internet
connection
Hybrid Gold is an option to make individual articles within a subscription journal
OA
Additionally some journals may make all their work OA a certain time after
publication (like 2-3 years)

17. OA JOURNAL

18. ANOTHER OA JOURNAL

19. PLOS? = MASSIVE ONLINE OA JOURNAL

20. HYBRID
A hybrid Gold Journal follows the
traditional subscriptions based
publishing model
But will allow authors to pay to make
individual articles available Open
Access
This may be reflected in the issue
level menus as a traffic light or
open/closed padlock graphic

22. CHECKING FOR OA
If you want to pass on an OA document to your user how can you be
sure the journal you are looking at is Open Access and is safe to
recommend?

23. DOAJ

24. PUBMED

25. ULRICH'S

26. SHERPA ROMEO

27. REPOSITORIES
Dictionary: A place where things are stored and can be found
Institutional
Subject
Geographic
Records may only have metadata – but can provide useful details
Records may have full text – but can be different versions

28. TEESREP

29. ROAR

30. OPENDOAR

31. CORE

32. REPOSITORIES AND VERSIONS
Once you have discovered repository content you may need to check which
version you are looking at in order to advise your users
Coversheets added by the repository may let you know
You can also trace back to the repository metadata to check there
Recognising a repository record from the URL can be helpful

33. AUTHORS MANUSCRIPT

34. PUBLISHERS PDF

35. METADATA & VERSION INFO
The best way to check the version you are looking at is to check the coversheet
where possible or the information in the repository metadata
http://tees.openrepository.com/tees/handle/10149/97778
http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/16654/
http://dro.dur.ac.uk/12788/

36. HOW TO GET TO THE RECORD USING
THE URL
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Women%27s+experiences+of+breast+cancer%3A+a+longitudinal+perspective&ie=utf-
8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb&gfe_rd=cr&ei=YT2kU7aRCY7Y8gepz4HYCw
If you have found an article online and are trying to ascertain the rights and
version, navigating back to the repository record can be the best way of finding
out

37. OPEN ACCESS BOOKS
Open access and books becomes more tricky
Scholarly monographs are starting to make the move to OA
Textbooks may be slowest to make the move

38. HATHI TRUST

39. DOAB

40. PROJECT GUTTENBERG

41. USING OPEN ACCESS FOR DOCUMENT
SUPPLY SOME EXAMPLES…
Parker & Lovell (2009) ‘Characteristics Affecting the Use of Imagery: A Youth
Sports Academy Study’ Journal of Imagery Research in Sport and Physical Activity
/ Vol. 4, No. 1, pp.1-15
DIRECT (DECLINED TO LEND)
Skelton, Cook at al (2009) ‘Prevalence and trends of severe obesity among US
children and adolescents’ Academic Paediatrics Sep-Oct;9(5):322-9. doi:
10.1016/j.acap.2009.04.005.
NOT *NUKL

42. USING OPEN ACCESS FOR DOCUMENT
SUPPLY SOME EXAMPLES…
Barron (2012) ‘The potential and challenges of critical realist ethnography’
International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2013, vol. 36, no. 2, pp.
117-130
CRF