This is the criteria used to activate a new Open Access electronic collection in the NZ. When Ex Libris adds a new Open Access or Free electronic collection to the CZ, these are the criteria used to activate the new e-collection.
Step-by-step guide
- Check to see if the OA e-collection is predatory on Beall's List. Definition of Predatory Journals.
- More information on how to identify a predatory publisher.
- Are the journals or e-books available from another e-collection?
- If there is a Wiley OA e-collection activated and a new e-collection is added, run an overlap comparison to determine if a second OA e-collection is necessary
- If the new OA e-collection added is replacing a previous OA e-collection from the same vendor, activate the new OA e-collection and delete the older OA e-collection.
- Check if the content is truly full text not just abstracts or reviews or articles
- Check the vendor's site for information about their OA titles
- Check if the articles are truly open access
- Doesn't require a institutional membership or a membership fee to gain access
- Check if the OA resource requires a login
- Does the site require the user to login to gain access
- If user has to create an account on the site, do not activate this resource
- Does the site require the user to login to gain access
- If the OA e-collection is activated
- Add it to the list of Shared NZ Resources
- Add internal note
- "This is an Open Access resource"
- Can create a query of Open Access resources in the NZ. The default "Equals Free" query does not always return all OA e-collections
- "This is an Open Access resource"
- Add Public Note
"May need to re-submit the search in the journal or e-book. Freely-available Web resource not maintained by the library. Access may be inconsistent."
- The Proxy settings must be set to NO in each library's group setting
Related articles
ACC Open Access Information and list of recommended OA resources