No Big Deal | Library Babel Fish

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-03-30

Summary:

"While our system is dandy for finding things we’re not allowed to share, it’s not always great at discovering open access materials. Quite often, an open access publication listed in a database or a book in the catalog will fail to link to the item, and that confuses students. The behind-the-scenes work that has to go into making things connect from one database to another or from a catalog to an electronic source is complex, and it may seem silly to worry about cataloging something that can be found with a Google search – but if our shared catalogs lead to things we can’t borrow but fail to find open access books, we’re really dropping the ball...."

Link:

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/no-big-deal

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.big_deals oa.cancellations oa.books oa.ill oa.libraries oa.libarts oa.print

Date tagged:

03/30/2019, 14:02

Date published:

03/30/2019, 10:02