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<p class="MsoNormal">I would also love to hear solutions for this issue. Hybrid journals showing as open access and sending users to non-open content is the bane of my existence.
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<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] Reliable and comprehensive site for OA articles (even just links)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">We use EBSCO Discovery Service to manage our holdings as well as discovery. It includes the ability to "select" "packages" of OA journal titles so they show up for easy access alongside
our paid holdings in the discovery result records.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">We keep running into problems with hybrid journals in those packages causing our patrons to disappointingly hit paywalls for their particular article.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I am considering the option to provide a link on result records to do a search on some other OA-only database that they can use to check for an OA version. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">EBSCO already offers us a link for using the Unpaywall API to check there, but it doesn't seem to know about most OA articles. We have DOAJ linked already, but that's also missing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Is there a free database out there that is doing a really comprehensive job of knowing what OA articles there are, and that I can make a persistent link logic from our citation
to it (eg using DOI, openurl syntax, etc.) for patrons to use to check?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I am aware of OpenAlex and Dimensions, but not sure how complete they are. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Ideally, such a "target" would know about the OA articles within hybrid journals without sending users to the paywalled articles in those journals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I am also aware of the Unpaywall browser plugin but we have had very poor uptake of solutions that require the patron to install something.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Any ideas, advice, suggestions, etc. that you can offer would be most welcome!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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