[GOAL] Shining a light on Discoverability of Open Access content

[Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)]

Dear John,

this is interesting and good work. However, Ï'm a bit puzzled as the GRID is still empty. Is it your intention to crowdsource the "answers" to fill the grid with? Of course there are often no simple answers. They'll need to be generic yet nuanced.

BTW As a discovery pathway I would add OA article aggregators such as Papaerity or ScienceOpen or CORE. Or is this captured by "journal aggregations"?

Kind regards,
Jeroen Bosman

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Subject: [GOAL] Shining a light on Discoverability of Open Access content

I thought this GRID might be useful or interesting to some people on this list.

As I started looking (see link below my signature) at ways in which to use pre-publication reference lists to identify and mobilize authors to share their submitted manuscripts (green OA) I came to recognize that not each of the various "discovery pathways" by which readers can find articles of interest are equally able to discover such content.

I began developing a GRID to lay out each discovery pathway and each location of "open" content.  Then I started asking questions from those much more knowledgeable than me about how such content would be found.  I soon realized that this is not just a problem for green OA, but even for gold OA as well as OA monographs and OER.  If a new OA publisher is unaware of some advantages to providing the discovery tool knowledge bases with the right meta-data, for example, then their open articles won't be included in the discovery tool.  Subscription publishers tend to know about these things because they have on-going revenue to protect which is at risk if there's no usage attributed to their journal.  More seriously is the case of hybrid open articles which have been paid for by authors or funding agencies to be open but are apparently unable to be discovered by mechanisms that are architected at the journal level rather than the article level.  So I ask, would funding agencies pay for articles to be open in a hybrid journal if they knew that such articles would not be discoverable via a link-resolver or a library's discovery service?

I've now shared with GRID with the NISO "Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee" which I joined last year.  There is interest on that committee to draft a "new item request" which then, should it gain support, can be voted on by NISO membership to establish a NISO "Working Group".

I'm not necessarily sure that all of this lends itself to a NISO "recommended practice" or standard.  It could well be that other organizations might adopt best practices or policies that would be informed by the light this grid (or some version of it) might shine on the problem. The fact that there is content which the author or perhaps the publisher or perhaps a funding agency is fully intending to be open to the world but is, in fact, hidden or blocked from some of the common discovery mechanisms is something I think needs attention.

It's offered here without any rights reserved.  Feel free to use it, modify it, with or without attribution.

-John Dove

An Open Content Discovery Grid for full-text discovery of content intended to be open.
          Location





Discovery
_  Pathway

Gold OA Journal Articles hosted by publisher

Articles in hybrid journals which have been paid to be “open”

Versions of articles which have been submitted to institutional or subject repositories

Versions of articles which the author has posted in Academia .edu

Versions of articles which the author has posted in Research Gate

Versions of articles which the author has posted in personal or departmental websites



Open Access Monographs



Open Educational Resources

General Web Search Engine






















Academic Web Search Engine






















Library Webscale Discovery Services





















Link Resolvers (targets, sources?)





















Publisher-provided links in reference lists





















Specialized Bibliographic Databases





















Journal Aggregations






















Library Catalogs

























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