Add OA flag to Community Zone Open Access ebook collections where they are missing
Some Alma CZ ebook e-collections do not include a MARC 506 field that would add the OA flag to Primo search results. This means that these titles are not included in the Open Access facet under Availability - even though the names of the e-collections state that they are open access.
Eg:
Project Euclid Open Access Monographs
Bloomsbury Open Access
Brillonline Open Access Books
International Monetary Fund eLibrary Open Access
JSTOR Books Open Access
Project Muse Open Access Books
Smithsonian Research Online - Open Access (Smithsonian)
Taylor & Francis eBooks Open Access
Walter De Gruyter: Open Access eBooks
Please consider adding the following notation to the MARC 506 fields for these e-collections.
506 0_ |a Open Access
or
506 0_ |f Unrestricted online access |2 star
These are the fields used by the DOAB, OAPEN Free, SpringerLInk OA eBooks, and Open Humanities Press. Alternatively, can you contact the publishers/providers of these OA ebook collections and ask them to add this notation to their wholly OA e-books?
Thanks for considering. Sandra.
Simon Fraser University
Hello,
We are working on cleaning up the 506 field within the CZ.
We continue to rely on providers to supply this metadata, and display this when available.
In addition there are talks about this field and the OA indications in may forums within our industry, so we look forward to improvements over time.
Thank you,
Rael
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Stacey van Groll commented
Add to this list OER collections:
* Milne Open Textbooks
* OpenStax College
* Open Textbook Library
* BC Open Campus TextbooksIt does not make sense that Ex Libris describes collections and records as Open Access in Alma collection names and in CDI descriptive information, and yet refuses to add the necessary 506 to ensure that our patrons can see this indicator in Primo.
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Stacey van Groll commented
I agree with other comments here that this should just be automatic, and we shouldn't have to ask for it (and spend valuable votes). This is a deliberately integrated item between Alma and Primo to trigger the OA icon and facet in both, and there is an expectation that Ex Libris ensures such features stay in alignment by necessary metadata.
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Bill Constantine commented
I think the 506 should be: 506 0 |f Unrestricted online access |2 star
That is what is in the ExLibris documentation. -
Bill Constantine commented
If ExLibris knows that the collection is an OA collection from the beginning, then they should be able to add the 506 tag without being asked by the ExLibris community.
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AN - UNSW commented
Should it not just be an automatic requirement of any OA collection added to Alma?
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François Renaville commented
Thanks for submitting this idea, Sandra! Freely available ebooks and ejournals from the OpenEdition collections could also be considered.