PCI / CDI: Please make sure that Open Access archives are really OA
In Primo Central Index / Central Discovery Index, some archives are incorrectly referred to as Open Access.
Please check the availability of documents in Open Access archives with "Link in record". If these archives sometimes also contain blocked documents or only title pages, tables of contents or abstracts, please split these archives into several collections, e.g. Open Access and Restricted Access.
Records which link only to title pages, tables of contents or abstracts should not appear in Open Access collections with "Link in record".
Example:
Open Access LMU (https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de)
Auf "Open Access LMU" finden Sie 64725 verzeichnete Publikationen aus der LMU, davon bieten 27953 Veröffentlichungen einen Zugang zum Volltext im Sinne von Open Access.
(On this server you'll find 64725 Publications of the LMU Munich. But only 27953 publications are Open Access!!)
Felix
shared this idea
Hello,
We are familiar with the nature of such collections which had previously been identified as fully Open Access, but in fact contain a majority of titles that are not freely available.
In order to address this we are reviewing our content to update such collections and re-classify them as “Partially Open Access” for better accuracy, based on the majority of the content within each collection.
If you encounter such a collection which you would like us to consider for re-assessment, please submit a Support Case so that we can analyze the request and process it.
In some cases we may encourage the community to discuss this matter with the content provider directly so that they can update their offerings and possibly generate two separate title lists to distinguish between their Open Access and paid content.
We have already processed the request for the example provided (Open Access LMU), which will be updated shortly.
Thank you for your feedback!
Best,
Rael
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Christian
commented
There is the same problem with collections, which are listed as "Partially Open Access" in Alma and which display full-text links via "Link in record".
We keep receiving user inquiries and complaints about this.