Barb & Dana you raise on interesting point about implementing the NIH
and other future mandates for access to taxpayer funded research while
meeting patrons' needs for uncomplicated full-text
access.
Mixing full-text with abstract/pay-per-view
articles in PubMed Central presents challenges to our students as
well. We, too, have decided not to include PubMed Central in our
profile because of the confusion this mix causes our
students.
As undergraduates, our students are not
doing comprehensive literature reviews nor are they usually searching for
articles in a particular journal. Given their need for subject
access and their general lack of the level of academic
literacy required to understand why some articles from a journal are
available in full-text and some are not, mixing the two is just not useful
to them.
If other institutions are making the same decision as
we have about not including PubMed Central in our profile of databases,
those decisions undermine the intent of the mandates.
How
can we meet students' needs and support the mandate effectively? If
PubMed Central were to create a full-text only sub-database that could be
linked to as a database profile, would that solve the problem created
by mixing full-text with abstract/pay-per-view? Or, would it
create other, more significant access problems?
Sherrill
On Tue, April 10, 2012 9:57 am, bpope wrote:
> Hi,
Dana. This sounds like not all articles in a particular journal may
> be deposited. I don't think this would work well with my open url
> resolver, because it will be directing patrons to a place where
no full
> text exists. Patrons and staff get confused if I add
something that is
> "select articles only." I don't
know if I want to add that resource to
> our
> profile
or not.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> --
> Barbara M. Pope, MALS
>
Periodicals/Reference Librarian
> Axe Library
>
Pittsburg State University
> Pittsburg KS 66762
>
620-235-4884
> bpope@pittstate.edu
>
> On Mon,
9 Apr 2012 20:35:30 -0500, Dana Pearson <dbpearsonmlis@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
>> Hi Barbara,
>>
>>
download the CSV list of PubMed Central titles [
>>
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/#csvfile ];
>>
>> load into a spreadsheet and you can see which PubMed Central
journals
>> participate in PubMed Central with the following
conditions:
>>
>> Portfolio: the journal commits
to depositing all NIH-funded articles
>> (as defined by the
NIH Public Access Policy), starting with a
>> particular
volume/issue or publication date. The journal may choose to
>>
also deposit other, non-NIH-funded articles under this agreement.
>>
>> vs. full participation or selective deposit as
mentioned on the
>> webpage you provided
>>
>> I worked with PubMed Central article metadata a few years back
but
>> didn't remember the portfolio status...I was also
putting the deposit
>> status info into NLM records for my
project..
>>
>> as to your question, which PubMed
Central articles are NIH funded
>> related, it would not be
easy to say...the Dublin Core records do not
>> include the
journal title (only a code for the journal); maybe an
>>
outside chance there is a reference to NIH funding in the description
>> element..
>>
>> regards,
>>
dana
>
>
>
>
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