[Eril-l] Better connectivity to articles in PMC?

[Melissa Belvadi]

Hi, all. Just wanted to interject an opinion that it is exactly this
problem that is why the big commercial publishers don't seem existentially
threatened by OA. They know we librarians won't accept these seams to our
user experience, and as long as they can get away with requiring them (e.g.
creating supposedly OA-friendly rules only allowing faculty to deposit
copies of their articles on their personal web pages or in a single IR),
they have nothing to fear.

I heard about OAFinder at Charleston last November, and would very much
like to hear some libraries' experience with whether it does indeed reduce
those seams (I love that metaphor) or just create another one.

Melissa Belvadi

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Linda Wobbe <lwobbe at stmarys-ca.edu> wrote:

> Hi Angela,
>
> Thanks for bringing up this topic!
>
> So many individual articles are being designated open access - and we have
> no ability to connect our users to them through our A-Z lists or Open URL!
>
> A faculty member asked me recently why an individual article in a Royal
> Society of Chemistry journal that he can access through Google Scholar
> isn't "not available" when he uses 360 Link.  It turns out the article is
> Gold open access.
>
> I've looked at a new product called OAFinder
> <http://www.1science.com/oafindr> from 1science.  I think this is exactly
> the problem they are trying to provide the solution for.  But.. I'm not
> sure if we can incorporate this product into our discovery service or
> A-Z/Open URL.
>
> If anyone knows of other solutions, please reply to the list!
>
> ...Linda Wobbe
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Angela Galvan <galvan at geneseo.edu> wrote:
>
>> Collective Wisdom,
>>
>> Not all journals in PMC are indexed in the Serials/Workflow Solutions PMC
>> database. I'm trying to find a way beyond creating a number of resource
>> notes on individual journals to address the problem. Example:
>>
>> We have Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, with an 18 month
>> embargo. However, a number of authors deposited post-acceptance copies of
>> articles into PMC. Is there a way I can get our resolver to recognize this
>> article is available in PMC without having the user begin another search?
>>
>> It doesn't happen often, but when it does the user becomes very aware of
>> the 'seams' between library systems and I'm trying to avoid this. Am I
>> tilting at windmills?
>>
>> Off-list answers are fine, thanks for your help.
>>
>> -Angela
>>
>> Angela Galvan
>> Digital Resources and Systems Librarian
>> SUNY Geneseo
>> galvan at geneseo.edu
>>
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Melissa Belvadi
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University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581
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