How to find and use the best free resources

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How to find and use the best free resources

• Chris Lau
• Regional Manager Asia
• Bowker
• October 2005

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Agenda

• Journal publishing overview
• Wheres the free stuff?
• Routes to content
• Issues of Free content
• Providing Aggregated OA content
• Pulling and Integrating Free content
• Future

Data from Ulrichs July 2005
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Serials Market Analysis

• Academic/Scholarly Journals
• 47,944 actively published
• 73 English language text
• 46 refereed
• 36 online
• 650 digitized editions of ceased print titles
• 12,982 are U.S. country of publication
• Dominant outlet in STM fields (hard sciences)
• Second to Humanities, Social Sciences
• 963 publishers w/10 or more scholarly titles

Data from Ulrichs July 2005
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Serials Market Analysis

• Primary Publishers 90,955 actively publishing

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Serials Market Analysis

• Primary Publishers - Top 10 Academic/Scholarly

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Serials Market Analysis

• Academic Libraries
• Are and will continue to be major purchasers of
  scholarly academic journals
• 2003 Median serials expenditures in (120) ARL
  institutions 5,392,007 (7.8 over 2002)
• Journal price increases in academic libraries
  average 39 per year1
• Most maintain duplicate holdings of a single
  title (i.e., print as well as electronic)2

1EBSCO Five Year Journal Price Increase History
(2001-2005)
2CLIR Research Report, The Nonsubscription Side
of Periodicals, Schonfeld et al. June 2004
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Serials Market Analysis
Academic library serials expenditures up over
270 since 1986
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Open Access

• Currently only 3 of core Academic journals are
  Open Access
• DOAJ lists 1700 titles
• Ulrichs tracks about 5800 free serials including
  all those in DOAJ
• About 40-50 are added per month
• 10-30 are academic/peer reviewed

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Some key free journal information sources

• Ulrichs
• ADS - NASA Astrophysics Data System
• Bioline - Bioline International
• DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
• Elsevier CellPress (Free) and ScienceDirect Cell
  Press (Free)
• Euclid journals in euclid.other - Project Euclid
  (Cornell)
• Highwire journals in highwire.freeart - Highwire
  Press
• NLM titles in PubMedCentral - National Library of
  Medicine PubMed Central
• Persee
• SORA -- Searchable Ornithological Research
  Archive

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Other commonly used Sources

• Search Engines Google, Yahoo etc
• Other library OPACS
• Open Access repositories
• Publisher sites
• Independent listings

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Problems of broad information sources

• Too broad a range of results
• Extremely time consuming to click and review
• Unreliability of data
• Lack of any quality control
• Lack of any selection process or criteria
• Growth of tools for self publishing journals
  (Blurty)

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Solution to source

• Authoritative tracking and aggregation by third
  party
• Clear review and assessment for inclusion
• Order and classify by industry standards
• Provide accurate bibliographic data and URLs
• Monthly customised email alerts to new Open
  Access titles

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Serials Tools that Work for You!
Search and Discover
Evaluate, Analyze, Report
Showcase Provide Access
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Ulrichs is Authoritative Content

• Global coverage from 214 countries
• 900 subject areas
• Journals, magazines, newspapers, more
• Academic/scholarly, peer-reviewed
• Consumer and trade
• Open Access and free publications tracked from
  all sources
• In-depth bibliographic details
• Online availability data, AI sources
• Title reviews

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Records Rich in Detail

• Basic Description
• Other Editions and Formats
• AI, Article Access
• Publisher and Order Info
• Advertising, Rights and Demographics
• Reviews

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Create Personal Lists

• From your Search Results or a full record
• Select the items to Add to List
• Password-protected or public!

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Customize, Print, Email, Download
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Ulrichs Alerts - Free!

• Subject-based notification of
• Newly-added titles
• Open Access and free titles
• Title changes
• Cessations
• E-mailed to your desktop monthly
• Archived online

Version 1.0
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Future

• Aim to facilitate easy management and access to
  free content
• Broader tracking and aggregation of content to
  include journals and articles in
• Institutional Repositories (50 of funded
  research is stored in an open access repository
  somewhere)
• E-print archives
• Daily or weekly alerts - highly tailored to
  librarians requirement ie Tell me when a new
  free refereed journal is available in Astro
  physics

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More Information

• Chris Lau
• Regional Manager
• Bowker
• Chrislau_at_bowker-asia.com

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Serials Tools that Work for You!
Search and Discover
Evaluate, Analyze, Report
Showcase Provide Access