Indexing services including more fulltext

[heatherm@eln.bc.ca]

Indexing services are including more fulltext, thanks to open access.  
Following is one example - there are others, and I would love to hear
about them - as well as a question that might be useful to ask in the
context of licensing discussions.

Example 1:  from Peter Suber's Open Access News Blog, Monday, January 24
at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

[snip]

HW Wilson adding OA journals to its database �

Mark Chillingworth, OA journals join HW Wilson abstracts, Information
World Review, January 24, 2005. Excerpt: 'US academic database publisher
HW Wilson is embracing open access publishing by adding 38 OA journals to
its Education Full Text database. The company is adding 49 new journals in
total to Education Full Text, and simultaneously boosting its Readers'
Guide Full Text database with the addition of 25 magazines.'

[snip]

Question for licensing specialist to ask vendors of indexing services:

What are your plans to add value to your service through linking directly
to quality open access resources?

Those who are tired of all the detail in those OA discussions might be
interested to know that Peter Suber has written a Very Short Introduction
to OA - the link is available from his Open Access Overview at
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm.  Written in December,
this has already been translated into 5 languages.

cheers!

Heather Morrison