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Resource Sharing Detective Work

Free and Open Access Tools to Help Us Find it NOW!

Russell [email protected]

LYRASIS ©2013

Doing the detective work

• Periodicals• Government Information• Archival collections/primary

documents• Other challenges/discussion/idea

exchange

Periodicals

• Open Access tools• Google Scholar • Google Magazines • What do you use?

Newspapers

• Chronicling America • http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

Government Information

• Technical Reports:– Virtual Technical Reports Center (UMD) – http://lib.guides.umd.edu/content.php?pid=317

991&sid=2799524• Fun and Interesting:

– The Government Attic – http://governmentattic.org/– UNT Cyber Cemetery – http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/default.htm

Archival materials

• Approach: • Local/State Archives/University

Archives

• What’s out there?• OCLC ArchiveGrid • http://archivegrid.org/web/index.jsp

Examples

• Digital Public Library of America • dp.la• American Memory Project • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html• UNC Chapel Hill, “Documenting the

American South” • http://docsouth.unc.edu/• Florida Memory • http://www.floridamemory.com/

Ask an author?

• LinkedIn• Academia.edu• CV online• Standard social media tools—twitter,

facebook, etc.

Discussion

• Share a “got it!” story-where you found something interesting for a patron that was extremely challenging!

• What was it?• Where did you find it?• How did you get it?

Why Open Access?• $$$• Control—access• Copyright—tightly managed by

publishers• WWW/New media• Speed of sharing

New publishing models emerged.

Open Access defined

• Digital/Online• Free of charge*• Free of most copyright/licensing

restrictions• Access to literature and articles

traditionally published in scholarly journals• Open access refers only to free and

unrestricted availability without any further implications

Categories of Open Access

• Gold OA—hosted by a publisher with no barriers to access – Example: PLoS Biology

http://www.plosbiology.org/home.action

• Green OA—materials deposited for archiving/access that may have once been in a traditional publication– Example: PubMed Central

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

Categories

• Hybrid Open Access Journal—some articles are free, because a publication fee was paid (usually by the author) to the publisher – Example: Publishers offering a hybrid option—American

Chemical Society, Wiley, Cambridge, Sage

• Delayed Open Access Journal—traditional journals that provide free or open access after an embargo period– Example: Journal of Experimental Biology

http://jeb.biologists.org/

Another Categorization

“Nine Flavours of Open Access”

Willinsky, 2003

Selected Open Access resources

• For reference and research• For finding alternative resources• Titles in the Library/Information

Science realm• Publishing in open access journals

The institutional repository

• SMARTech at Georgia Tech– https://smartech.gatech.edu/

• GALILEO Knowledge Repository – http://www.library.gatech.edu/gkr/about

Thank You for Attending!

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