Open Access Alternatives for Tough Times Monterey, October 26, 2009 Peter Jacso professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences University of Hawaii
Budget cuts You can run but you cant hide What to downsize? Personnel, salary, journals ??? Indexing/abstracting sources (print & digital) Make use of what YOU HAVE and what is OPEN ACCESS Jacso
Many libraries have cut, did they substitute? Jacso
Some did in themselves Mental Health Abstracts Information Science Abstracts EnviroLine Jacso Some are on the endangered species list GeoArchive Library Literature & Info Science British Education Index
G gle Sch lar Jacso
About 60% of papers have abstracts Jacso
Similar abstract ratio in Springer journals Jacso
Unorthodox Boolean logic Jacso
Unorthodox time span narrowing Jacso
What is in an abstract? Jacso
Or rather in a quarter million abstracts on Google Scholar? Jacso
beyond the apologies? Jacso
Records do have free abstracts if NOT searched through Google Scholars searchbot Jacso
And in more than half a million abstracts from Wiley alone in Google Scholar? Jacso
… shown from 1 to 1000 by GS Jacso
Once again,there are good abstracts – except for Google Scholars searchbot Jacso
Options Fully equivalent free/OA content Quasi equivalent free/OA content Free/OA subset of a paid I&A database Functional free/OA substitute Better than you had before Necessity is the mother of invention & discovery No I have fallen and cant get up schtick Jacso
Dont be like Imelda Jacso
You got A&I databases and Imelda got shoes I dont have a pair of shoes to wear…
US Government as content producer AND host Jacso
US Government as content producer AND host all records and abstracts in millions all abs Agricola PubMed ERIC PubMed C NTIS NCJRS Energy Cits2.6 ?TRIS ETDEWEb Jacso
US Gov as content producer on Dialog $/connect hour + I&A print costs $ $ $ $ Agricola PubMed ERIC NCJRS NTIS TRIS Energy Sci Jacso
Many with full text also in O/A International Organizations Jacso
Associations, Societies, Institutes OA part of their fee-based digital archives + many others Jacso
Largest commercial publishers with huge OA subset of bibliographic records & abstracts + many others Jacso
Commercial publishers as content producer AND host (million items) all abs Elsevier Oxford Springer Cambridge Wiley3.5 ? T & F 2.0 ? SAGE Emerald 0.2 ? NPG Jacso
New and traditional players Digital Facilitators Document Delivery Services databases Jacso
New & traditional players (million items) all abs HighWire Press MetaPress IngentaConnect 4.5 ? Atypon ? ? Infotrieve (PR) Infotrieve (my estimate) CNRS British Library 9.0 ? NRC 7.3 ? Jacso
Providers - Abstracts + I/A databases/subsets Web-born entrepreneurs Traditional Information Services Jacso
Closest to your heart Jacso
LISTA all records - all OA Jacso
LISTA all records with abstracts Jacso
TRC All records – all OA Jacso
All records – all OA, most with abstracts Jacso
PILOTS Open Access CSA version Jacso
PILOTS Open Access CSA version Jacso
Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections - Jacso
- Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections - Jacso
- Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections - Jacso
- Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections Jacso