Fill the gap of Open Access CDI records not marked with the Open Access icon and facet
The Open Access icon and facet were added to Primo in May 2018, per previous submission: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/19130257-open-access-flag-for-open-access-content
This is applied at metadata level by provider feed first for PCI and now CDI.
This current decision is the root cause for a significant gap in the number of OA records incorrectly not marked as OA.
For example, tens of thousands of PloS One articles not marked as OA.
In September 2022 a change is made in terms of the link proxy being removed when it is determined at the link level that the access is OA.
But unfortunately this change is not married with the OA icon and facet, and these will not be added to the record when this link level OA determination is made.
This means that our patrons still miss out on the immediately clear indication in brief results by the icon that a resource is OA and they also have no ability to filter to this content.
For many libraries, there are strategic institutional level goals to support and promote OA content, and this gap means that our discovery layers do not support us to align with these goals.
A successful delivery of this idea would be that the OA icon and facet are also added to records when there is a link level determination of OA status, as well as metadata level. This idea applies regardless of Primo deployment model ie Primo managed via Back Office and Primo VE managed via Alma.
Stacey van Groll
shared this idea
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Stacey van Groll
commented
Noting that the gap exists also between Books and Book Chapters where if a Book has the Open Access indicator and included in the facet, this is not inherited by Book Chapters records of this Book, which are still dependent on individual provider to provide this information per record.
Ex Libris advised this as an enhancement request, and they will not document it. -
Stacey van Groll
commented
I can't edit my idea for unknown reasons, so I'll add here adjustment of September 2022 for VE and November 2022 for Primo BO.