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Discussion
• Use the chat to share a “got it!” story-where you
found/acquired something challenging for a library user!
• What was it?
• Where did you find it?
• How did you get it?
• What resources/strategies did you use to find it and get it?
Doing the detective work
• Newspapers/Periodicals/Open Access
• Government Information
• Archival collections/primary documents
• Other challenges/discussion/idea exchange
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Newspapers
• Chronicling America
• http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
• Google News (With “Archive” option)
• http://www.google.com/news
Periodicals
• Open Access tools
• Google Scholar
• Google Magazines
• RefSeek
• http://www.refseek.com/
• Scirus
• http://www.scirus.com/
• What do you use?
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Why Open Access?
• $$$
• Control—access
• Copyright—tightly managed by publishers
• WWW/New media
• Speed of sharing
New publishing models emerged.
Open Access defined
• Digital/Online
• Free of charge*
• Free of most copyright/licensing restrictions
• Access to literature and articles traditionally
published in scholarly journals
• Open access refers only to free and
unrestricted availability without any further
implications
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Categories of Open Access
• Gold OA—hosted by a publisher with no barriers to
access
– Example: PLoS Biology
http://www.plosbiology.org/home.action
• Green OA—materials deposited for archiving/access
that may have once been in a traditional publication
– Example: PubMed Central
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
Categories
• Hybrid Open Access Journal—some articles are free,
because a publication fee was paid (usually by the author)
to the publisher
– Example: Publishers offering a hybrid option—American Chemical
Society, Wiley, Cambridge, Sage
• Delayed Open Access Journal—traditional journals that
provide free or open access after an embargo period
– Example: Journal of Experimental Biology
http://jeb.biologists.org/
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Another Categorization
“Nine Flavours of Open Access”
Willinsky, 2003
Selected
Open Access resources
• For reference and research
• For finding alternative resources
– Directory of Open Access Journals
– http://www.doaj.org/
– PubMed Central
– http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
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Open Access books
• National Academies Press
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
The institutional repository
• SMARTech at Georgia Tech
– https://smartech.gatech.edu
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Government Information
• Technical Reports:
– Virtual Technical Reports Center (UMD)
– http://lib.guides.umd.edu/content.php?pid=317991&si
d=2799524
• Fun and Interesting:
– The Government Attic
– http://governmentattic.org/
– UNT Cyber Cemetery
– http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/default.htm
Archival materials
• Approach:
• Local/State Archives/University Archives
• What’s out there?
• OCLC ArchiveGrid
• http://archivegrid.org/web/index.jsp
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Archives examples
• National:
• Digital Public Library of America
• dp.la
• American Memory Project
• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
• Regional:
• UNC Chapel Hill
• “Documenting the American South”
• http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Archives examples
• State:
• Florida Memory
• http://www.floridamemory.com/
• Institutional:
• Harvard University, Immigration to the United
States, 1789-1930
• http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/
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Ask an author?
• LinkedIn
• Academia.edu
• Online CV’s
• Standard social media tools—twitter,
facebook, etc.
“Getting it” strategy summary
• Commercial document suppliers
• Library of Congress
• Group memberships (LYRA, SO6, SOLINE, LVIS)
• Resource Sharing systems (RapidILL)
• Communication!
• Identifying great lending partners
– Locally, regionally, nationally
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Tools and strategies discussion
• In the time we have left, let’s do what we do best—
share resources and ideas.
Thank You for Attending!
Questions/Comments?
russell.palmer@lyrasis.org
