NISO Open Access Metadata and Indicators Working Group: Creating a Cross-Audience Solution

Lagace, Nettie; Tananbaum, Greg

doi:10.1080/0361526x.2013.813892

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“…While discovery tool results lists may not be as inclusive of OA journal content as their search engine counterparts, there is no single comprehensive OA platform from which to draw this content. Content providers, publishers, librarians, and system providers are not yet working in full harmony to ameliorate discovery through an implementation of standards and best practices (Hutchens 2013;Lagace and Tananbaum 2013). As this study will show, smaller independent publishers with limited technical expertise and resources may be missing opportunities for greater visibility by neglecting effective metadata application and best practices for search engine optimization (SEO) (Somerville and Conrad 2013, 32-33).…”

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An Exploration of Indexed and Non-Indexed Open Access Journals: Identifying Metadata Coding Variations

Allen

Weber

2015

Journal of Web Librarianship

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The intent of this investigation was to learn what factors may have contributed to low usage of a small set of reputable open access scholarly journals, as evidenced in graduate student reference lists. Inquiry into differences among open access sources referenced between 2005 and 2014 revealed that non-indexed journals were being used notably fewer times than their commercially indexed counterparts. A comparison of HTML source code between indexed and non-indexed journals illustrated that certain metadata and other coding features may have affected the visibility of non-indexed journal content.The study suggests to librarians the presence of less visible empirical literature on the web and to smaller, independent academic publishers, the need to apply better quality metadata and optimization strategies to their open access journal content.

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confidence: 94%