Open Access Alternatives for Tough Times

Monterey, October 26, 2009

Peter Jacsoprofessor

Department of Information and Computer SciencesUniversity of Hawaii

Budget cuts

• You can run but you can’t hide

• What to downsize?

• Personnel, salary, journals ???

• Indexing/abstracting sources (print & digital)

• Make use of what YOU HAVE and what is OPEN

ACCESS

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Many libraries have cut, did they substitute?

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Some did in themselves

Mental Health AbstractsInformation Science AbstractsEnviroLine

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Some are on the endangered species list

GeoArchiveLibrary Literature & Info ScienceBritish Education Index

G gle Sch lar

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About 60% of papers have abstracts

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Similar abstract ratio in Springer journals

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Unorthodox Boolean logic

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Unorthodox time span narrowing

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What is in an abstract?

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Or rather in a quarter million abstracts on Google Scholar?

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beyond the apologies?

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Records do have free abstracts if NOT searched through Google Scholar’s searchbot

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And in more than half a million abstracts from Wiley alone in Google Scholar?

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… shown from 1 to 1000 by GS

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Once again,there are good abstracts – except for Google Scholar’s searchbot

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Options

• Fully equivalent free/OA content

• Quasi equivalent free/OA content

• Free/OA subset of a paid I&A database

• Functional free/OA substitute

• Better than you had before

• Necessity is the mother of invention & discovery

• No “I have fallen and can’t get up” schtick

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Don’t be like Imelda

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You got A&I databases and Imelda got shoes

I don’t have a pair of shoes to wear…

US Government as content producer AND host

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US Government as content producer AND host

all records and abstracts in millions

all abs all abs

Agricola 4.5 0.8 PubMed 18.7 10.4

ERIC 1.3 1.2 PubMed C 1.8 1.3

NTIS 2.4 1.8 NCJRS 0.2 0.2

Energy Cits 2.6 ? TRIS 0.7 0.6

ETDEWEb 4.2 0.9

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US Gov as content producer on Dialog

$/connect hour + I&A print costs

$ $ $ $

Agricola 37 1.60 PubMed 34 0.24

ERIC 37 0.85 NCJRS 43 0.46

NTIS 103 2.70 TRIS 65 1.40

Energy Sci 102 2.28

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Many with full text also in O/A

International Organizations

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Associations, Societies, Institutes

OA part of their fee-based digital archives

+ many others

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Largest commercial publishers with huge OA subset of bibliographic records & abstracts

+ many others

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Commercial publishers as content producer AND host (million items)

all abs all abs

Elsevier 8.9 5.7 Oxford 1.2 0.3

Springer 4.6 2.1 Cambridge 0.5 0.4

Wiley 3.5 ? T & F 2.0 ?

SAGE 0.7 0.3 Emerald 0.2 ?

NPG 0.7 0.5

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New and traditional players

Digital Facilitators

Document Delivery Services’ databases

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New & traditional players (million items)

all abs

HighWire Press 6.1 3.4

MetaPress 3.8 2.6

IngentaConnect 4.5 ?

Atypon ? ?

Infotrieve (PR) 26.0 8.5

Infotrieve (my estimate)21.0 4.8

CNRS 8.5 4.6

British Library 9.0 ?

NRC 7.3 ?

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Providers - Abstracts + I/A databases/subsets

Web-born entrepreneurs

Traditional Information Services

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Closest to your heart

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LISTA all records - all OA

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LISTA all records with abstracts

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TRC All records – all OA

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All records – all OA, most with abstracts

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PILOTS Open Access CSA version

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PILOTS Open Access CSA version

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Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections -

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- Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections -

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- Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections -

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- Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections

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