Does It Make a Sound: Are Open Access Monographs Discoverable in Library Catalogs?

McCollough, Aaron

doi:10.1353/pla.2017.0010

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“…Notably, many of these efforts focused on creating and publishing scholarly works as OA; once they are published, however, how discoverable and accessible are these works to the research community? As shown by Bulock in 2021, McCollough in 2017, and Chumbe, Kelly, and MacLeod in 2015, there are multiple challenges to the discovery of OA resources, such as low rates of inclusion of cataloging records within library catalogs. Metadata plays a critical role in addressing these challenges.…”

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Metadata Librarians for Open Access

Chan,

Zhang,

Vermeij

et al. 2024

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Support by academic libraries for open access (OA) over the past three-plus decades has largely focused on the development of digital infrastructure, promotion of open access publishing, support of policy-driven access mandates, and more recently, adoption of transformative agreements. Libraries have correspondingly created a broad array of scholarly communication roles to support these varied approaches. Surprisingly, one area of open access support that has received less attention from libraries is the facilitation of description and discovery of open access resources through the creation of robust original metadata. Expertise in Organization of Recorded Knowledge and Information represents a core competency of librarianship, yet the current academic library landscape shows few positions that specifically apply this expertise towards support for OA resources. Efforts to describe OA resources typically fall below those dedicated to licensed resources and pale in comparison to OA advocacy work, repository, publishing and other services. This case study offers an example of how one large academic library has introduced a metadata librarian position focused on description of open access resources into its activities supporting open access. For decades, commercially licensed resources have benefitted from metadata enhanced layer by layer by commercial and library professionals alike. With increased focus and funding being devoted to open access driven by governmental, institutional, and private funders, attention is critically needed to ensure that these new resources obtain the description necessary to allow them to be useful. Metadata librarians focused on open access resources can work with array of positions, such as repository managers and other digital asset management professionals, to ensure that open access resources are properly ingested and managed, and that metadata practices are aligned with best practices for preservation and long-term access. OA metadata librarians could be responsible for developing and implementing metadata standards and practices for open access resources like scholarly articles, data sets, and other digital objects. These standards would help ensure that open access resources are accurately described and discoverable alongside purchased resources, making them more accessible to researchers and other users. In addition to their technical responsibilities, OA metadata librarians can also play key roles in advocating for open access resources and educating library staff and users about the importance of metadata in supporting discoverability and accessibility. Through participation in professional organizations and initiatives focused on open access and metadata, OA metadata librarians can help raise awareness of the importance of metadata in supporting open access resources, their sustainability, and ultimately, their impact.

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“…All in all, the incorporation of these standards across the platforms should significantly improve the findability of open access monographs, which is not always optimal today (cf. [McCollough, 2017]).…”

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Leveraging Concepts in Open Access Publications

Bertino

Foppiano²,

Romary³

et al. 2020

Journal of Data Mining &Amp; Digital Humanities

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This paper addresses the integration of a Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation (NERD) service within a group of open access (OA) publishing digital platforms and considers its potential impact on both research and scholarly publishing. The software powering this service, called entity-fishing, was initially developed by Inria in the context of the EU FP7 project CENDARI and provides automatic entity recognition and disambiguation using the Wikipedia and Wikidata data sets. The application is distributed with an open-source licence, and it has been deployed as a web service in DARIAH's infrastructure hosted by the French HumaNum. In the paper, we focus on the specific issues related to its integration on five OA platforms specialized in the publication of scholarly monographs in the social sciences and humanities (SSH), as part of the work carried out within the EU H2020 project HIRMEOS (High Integration of Research Monographs in the European Open Science infrastructure). In the first section, we give a brief overview of the current status and evolution of OA publications, considering specifically the challenges that OA monographs are encountering. In the second part, we show how the HIRMEOS project aims to face these challenges by optimizing five OA digital platforms for the publication of monographs from the SSH and ensuring their interoperability. In sections three and four we give a comprehensive description of the entity-fishing service, focusing on its concrete applications in real use cases together with some further possible ideas on how to exploit the annotations generated. We show that entity-fishing annotations can improve both research and publishing process. In the last chapter, we briefly present further possible application scenarios that could be made available through infrastructural projects.

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“…When more aggregators are aware of the existence of DOAB, compared to the OAPEN Library, the monographs listed in DOAB will receive more attention. Several authors see DOAB as a comprehensive source of open access monographs (McCollough, 2017;Morisson, 2016). More exposure will also lead to more data usage.…”

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“…For instance, the growth of DOAB is listed in the "Dramatic growth of open access" blog (Morisson, 2016). This is further illustrated by McCollough (2017), who sees the Directory of Open Access Books as a tool for discovering open access monographs in academic libraries.…”

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The deliverance of open access books : Examining usage and dissemination

Snijder¹

2019

Preprint

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In many scholarly disciplines, books – not articles – are the norm. As print runs become smaller, the question arises whether publishing monographs in open access helps to make their contents globally accessible. To answer this question, the results of multiple studies on the usage of open access books are presented.The research focuses on three areas: economic viability; optimization of open access monographs infrastructure and measuring the effects of open access in terms of scholarly impact and societal influence. Each chapter reviews a di?ferent aspect: book sales, digital dissemination, open licenses, user communities, measuring usage, developing countries and the effects on citations and social media.

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Does It Make a Sound: Are Open Access Monographs Discoverable in Library Catalogs?

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Metadata Librarians for Open Access

Metadata Librarians for Open Access

Leveraging Concepts in Open Access Publications

The deliverance of open access books : Examining usage and dissemination

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