[Eril-l] Open Access titles in EBSCO Full Text Finder

[Fox, Linda J.]

Hi, Patricia,

We are working through exactly the same issues.   We have also been using 360 Link.  In our situation, one compounding problem is that we provided a single file of both subscribed and open access holdings, and EBSCO staff dutifully added our holdings to each of those titles in some package.  In addition, many free titles were added to the “Publisher’s Site” package even though they were listed in one of the open access packages, like DOAJ.  So much of the blame is probably on us.  So far, we have been unable to get a list of free/open access packages from EBSCO, which makes it difficult to check to see that the settings for those packages are correct, and we are not sending the user to our proxy server.

We had to go through the “Publisher’s Site” package to make sure the proxy settings were correct for each title.  We have examined a few of our bigger packages title by title, starting from a file exported from Serials Solutions.  But with limited staff time available for clean-up, we can’t check everything.  At some point soon we will have to stop, and correct errors when they are discovered by staff or patrons.

You might have some success with exporting holdings from both FTF and 360 Link and comparing them.  We’d hoped to be able to use the URL, but found that for many providers, FTF and 360 use different URL structures.  But there might be a way to isolate your paid or free resources in 360 Link and looking for them in FTF based on ISSN.

If anyone else has dealt with this, and has additional suggestions for cleaning up holdings, we would welcome them.

Linda

Linda Fox
Senior Library Information Specialist
UMKC University Libraries
Miller Nichols Library Room 304
800 E 51st Street
Kansas City, MO  64110
https://library.umkc.edu<https://library.umkc.edu/>
(816) 235-5290
fax: (816) 235-5531
foxlj at umkc.edu<mailto:foxlj at umkc.edu>




From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> On Behalf Of Patricia Dover
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2018 4:35 PM
To: eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>
Subject: [Eril-l] Open Access titles in EBSCO Full Text Finder

We are implementing EBSCO Full Text Finder (switching from Proquest 360 Link). When I had EBSCO configure my initial holdings I said “yes” to including open access titles. Now I am finding that having all of those titles activated is making it difficult for me to check for errors in the titles I have activated. There is no way to “flag” a package or title as open-access within FTF. I can probably deal with the complete packages that are open access, but EBSCO has activated individual titles in packages where I have a specific number of titles for which we have subscriptions, and having those extra titles activated causes confusion.

How have you dealt with this issue? Am I the only one finding it to be confusing?

Thanks.


Patricia Dover
Electronic Resources Librarian
Collections Management
Jessie Ball duPont Library
The University of the South
178 Georgia Ave.
Sewanee, TN 37383
931.598.1657
prdover at sewanee.edu<mailto:prdover at sewanee.edu>

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