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<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">The database is open access and is considered a significant resource of wide interest"</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Not to hijack the thread, but I would be very interested to know what such resources other university libraries would put in that category.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Does anyone maintain a list somewhere (aside from what's in your A-Z list of course) or does anyone who has a lot of these in their A-Z list have in their A-Z interface a mechanism for filtering for these so I could see what you include?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I occasionally stumble on a new such resource, and it makes me wonder how many more are out there that we haven't found and that would be useful to our patrons.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">And related back to the thread and this issue of open access resources, do other libraries list databases twice if they are public AND licensed?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">For instance, the ERIC education database is free through the US govt website, but we also have it available in EBSCOhost.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">We list both versions in our Database A-Z, with an eye towards "lifelong learning" skills for our students.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">And maybe that's the ONLY example out there, but if there are others, what do you do in terms of your Database A-Z?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> 902-566-0581</div><div>my <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mbelvadi%40upei.ca&ctz=America/Halifax&mode=week" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">public 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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Bob Pearson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:b.pearson@auckland.ac.nz" target="_blank">b.pearson@auckland.ac.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Database Directory guidelines<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Purpose<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The Database Directory is intended primarily for licensed collections and tools.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Substantial open access resource datasets deemed to be of wide interest to Library users may be included, but specialised open access
resources should be linked only at subject guide level.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Criteria for inclusion<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">• The database is licensed by the Library.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">• The database is published by the Library or another University department and is designed for public use.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">• The database is open access and is considered a significant New Zealand information resource.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">• The database is open access and is considered a significant resource of wide interest that meets the Library’s collection management
plan criteria.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Exclusions<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">• Monographs, and serials such as journals, are not generally given individual entries in the Database Directory. However an exception
is made for major reference works (especially encyclopaedias) and sometimes for the archive of a single newspaper or periodical.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">• Individual titles excluded from the Database Directory are candidates for linking to subject guides to assist promotion.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Final decisions<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Final decisions concerning databases or titles that will be added to the Databases Directory reside with the Electronic Resources Manager.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Bob Pearson<br>
Digital Access Librarian<br>
Digital Services<br>
The University of Auckland Library<br>
New Zealand<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Eril-l [mailto:<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l-bounces@lists.<wbr>eril-l.org</a>]
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<b>Subject:</b> [FORGED] [Eril-l] criteria for e-resources on A-Z databases list<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class="">
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<p class="MsoNormal">What policies or criteria do you use to decide if an electronic resource belongs on your A-Z Databases page? <u></u><u></u></p>
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