Re: OA articles in toll access journal: will they be lost ?

[David Stern <david.e.stern@yale.edu>]

Our fulltext resolver (SFX) can not determine which OA articles from a
toll journal are available because an author has paid a fee.

As a matter of fact, it will exclude access to non-subscription titles, as
it will be told "do not show a link" for this journal.  Users will need to
try each article in a non-subscription title by linking to a web presence
and hoping the link works.

Not an elegant solution ... to say the least.

David

David Stern
Director of Science Libraries and Information Services
Kline Science Library
219 Prospect Street
P.O. Box 208111
New Haven, CT  06520-8111


At 06:26 PM 9/28/2005, you wrote:

>Springer, Blackwell, Oxford University Press have proposed an Open Access
>option and articles published with this option are accessible to anyone
>on the journal's web site. Oxford University Press has even shift the
>whole journal "Nuclear Acid Research" to open access.
>
>From the reader's point of view, articles form Nucleic Acid Research are
>marked as OA in PubMed, so everyone interested can see that when
>searching PubMed. Journal of Experimental Botany from the same publisher
>is a mix of OA and toll access articles. On the publisher's site OA
>articles are easily seen, but they were not in PubMed (for the few
>articles I have searched, at least) since there was no difference between
>OA and non OA articles.
>
>Now, with journals from Blackwell and Springer which are all subscription
>based, does anybody have an idea how OA articles lost in these toll
>access journals will be tagged as OA to be used ? Not only in the
>journal's site but also in databases like PubMed, or Web of Science ?
>
>Francois Rappaz
>
>Centre de documentation de la Faculte des Sciences
>Universite de Fribourg
>Switzerland