We’ve got issues with Open access resources Libraries grapple with the realities of providing discovery and fulfillment of freely accessible content Nathan Hosburgh, Rollins College ALA Annual, Orlando, FL June 26,2016

We all love open access We all love OA – the best part is that it’s all free, right? Kind of “free like kittens”… as we know. But, we all still love it. It feels right and it makes us feel good.

In the words of a researcher… Researchers, professors, scientists have all been gradually embracing OA over the past 10 or 15 years, especially the younger generation of researchers in all kinds of disciplines, particular in the sciences. And US government said in 2013 that publications from taxpayer-funded research should be made free to read after a year’s delay — expanding a policy that formerly applied only to biomedical science. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has since 2008 required research to be publicly accessible after 12 months. Bryony Graham on the theory and reality of publishing open access at the start of her research career

In the words of a librarian… The PubMed link in the Links to Full Text section for this article http://rollins- primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01RC:Everything:TN_wj10.1002/open.201500182 returns a "No items found" page. When I search the title directly on PubMed or PMC, no results are returned, so I suspect this isn't so much a broken link as a link that shouldn't be there at all. The DOAJ link does work, so the article does exist. I looked up the journal the article is from, ChemistryOpen, and it *is* available on PubMed, but the issue containing this article (volume 4, issue 6) is not. I'm not sure there's anything we can do about this, especially since it seems possible the article eventually will be included in PubMed (the issue it's in is fairly recent, it may just be a delay), but I thought I'd ask. However, for librarians the realities of mang A ticket opened by one of our public service librarians, Emma Oxford

In the words of vendor support… Dear Sir/Madam, Thank you for contacting Data services Support team. The threshold has been corrected to: ($obj->parsedDate('>=',2012,1,undef)) && ($obj->parsedDate('<=','2015','4','5'))Available from 2012 volume:1 until 2015 volume: 4 issue:5, so Pubmed will not be available in the openURL. This change will be part of the 3rd June Alma CKB update (The 20162400 Alma CKB update that will be released @ June 19th). Kind regards, Hila Schwartz Data Services Analyst Ex Libris Group USA

Indexing issues “Containers” may not be defined correctly. For instance, reference work may be defined as a “journal”. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is indexed at title level in Primo, but each article/entry is not indexed. How useful is this, especially if our library has financially supported such an OA resource?

Realities of managing OA Providing discovery and access still creates work for librarians. Linking continues to be a problem due to metadata. Who “owns” the content when there is a problem? Is the effort in maintenance worth the provision of access? If we support OA ventures financially, we are compelled to make them discoverable. What collections/resources to turn on in the ERMS? Hybrid OA is problematic to manage. Many discovery services cannot identify OA at article level. End users don’t particularly care if something is OA or not. They just want access.