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Lots of good discussion about this!</div>
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Something else to consider is how the A-Z list might be useful to librarians and staff in their work, even if not something you'd want to add to a subject guide. For example we do include large ebook collections even those from single publishers, even though
these are in our discovery (we use Alma-Primo). If we have a problem with our access through discovery links, it's helpful for both alternative direct access and troubleshooting to have the link direct to the collection on the publisher's site on our A-Z
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We are small enough, 7 librarians, that we can be collegial about these things. A general rule for the free stuff is that if a librarian thinks it's worth including in their subject guide, it's worth making a database A-Z page for.</div>
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We do sometimes struggle with where the boundary is between a database and a single title, especially if we're paying a substantial subscription price for the one title. </div>
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The obvious example is the OED, but also the CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics, the Wiley eLS (encyclopedia of life science) and others.</div>
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I tend to discourage inclusion of collections of full text content where the librarians have no intention of encouraging or teaching students to search directly on that platform, but will only be accessing it following full-text links from our discovery service.
The presence of those in the A-Z list will only mislead some users into trying to search in an engine where they may not understand the limited collection they are searching and that they are missing out on so much more.</div>
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An example we struggle with in this regard is Elsevier's Topic search.</div>
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We don't have formal guidelines regarding what OA items to include on our A-Z list. We will consider including if it's a good-quality, credible resource that would be widely useful for the types of research and teaching done here. One rule-of-thumb might
be: if there was a charge for the resource, and you had the money to subscribe, would you? E.g., PubMed is a no-brainer to include as a high quality medical database. Other governmental databases are good candidates, as are OA databases developed and
maintained by universities (perhaps using grant funds). Also we have some OA resources on our A-Z list that our library helped to fund, often through a library consortium effort. Also, DOAJ, DOAB are on our list, and also integrated into our Primo discovery
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Hi, Karen. </div>
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I recently set up an A-Z database list for us and I debated the same question. It's still pretty vague. I think I got all our subscription databases added in (I think!), and I did add some open access ones - ones that I thought were more well-known. I've also
passed the list of electronic "collections" we have activated in our catalogue to another staff to get her input on whether or not I should add any additional ones.</div>
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For those willing to share to the list, I'd also be interested in what others are doing.</div>
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Database list? Does your list also include Open Access resources? If so, how do you decide which OA resources to include/exclude? Even if your library doesn't have formal guidelines, it would be great to hear from you. </div>
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