{"id":18369,"date":"2017-01-11T00:50:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=18369"},"modified":"2017-01-11T00:50:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T23:50:30","slug":"two-new-studies-of-oa-indexing-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/01\/11\/two-new-studies-of-oa-indexing-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new studies of OA indexing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/645358\">&#8220;Are Open Access Monographs Discoverable in Library Catalogs?&#8221;<\/a>, <em>Libraries and the Academy<\/em>, Volume 17, No. 1, January 2017&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The analysis indicates that only a small percentage of college and university library catalogs in the United States and Canada consistently enable discovery and access for the test sample.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@aarontay\/the-open-access-aggregators-challenge-how-well-do-they-identify-free-full-text-b32c457233ce\">&#8220;The open access aggregators challenge: how well do they identify free full text?&#8221;<\/a>, Medium article-post, 7th January 2017. Looks at BASE and CORE&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>when OAI-PMH (which is the standard way of harvesting open access repositories [was established,] no provision was made to have a standard way or a mandatory field to indicate if the item is free to access.&#8221; [But today] &#8220;many have in fact more metadata-only records than full-text records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>[BASE] &#8220;is only able to see 75 free records in National University of Singapore\u2019s IR, 654 free records in Nanyang Technology University\u2019s IR, 143 free records in Singapore Management University\u2019s IR. I did not do a check to see if there were false positives in BASE\u2019s identification of full text but [assuming] they are 100% correct, we see only a full text identification ratio of 0.6%, 3.8% and 2.7% respectively!&#8221; [&#8230;] &#8220;the results for CORE are as dismal as BASE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/oro.open.ac.uk\/37824\/1\/oa-metadata-to-oa-content.pdf\">&#8220;From open access metadata to open access content: two principles for increased visibility of open access content&#8221;<\/a>, conference paper presented at Open Repositories 2013, 8th-12th July 2013, Charlottetown, Canada.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; only 27.6% of research outputs in repositories are linked to content that can be downloaded by automatic means and analysed (e.g. indexed). [&#8230;] the median repository will only provide machine readable content for 13% of its deposited resources. [but] it is likely that these statistics are in fact rather optimistic &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Are Open Access Monographs Discoverable in Library Catalogs?&#8221;, Libraries and the Academy, Volume 17, No. 1, January 2017&#8230; The analysis &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/01\/11\/two-new-studies-of-oa-indexing-levels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}