SFX Miscellaneous Free Ejournals Target: Usage Survey Among the SFX Community |
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| Authors: | François Renaville Yosef Branse Mark Needleman |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Liège Library, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium;2. Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel;3. Library Services Division, Florida Virtual Campus, Gainesville, Florida, USA |
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| Abstract: | The number of free or open access articles is increasing rapidly, and their retrieval with library indexes and OpenURL link resolvers has been a challenge. In June 2014, the SFX MISCELLANEOUS_FREE_EJOURNALS target contained more than 24,000 portfolios of all kinds. The SFX KnowledgeBase Advisory Board (KBAB) carried out an international survey to get an overview of the usage of this target by the SFX community and to precisely identify what could be done to improve it. The target is widely used among the community. However, many respondents complained about three major problems: (a) incorrect links, (b) full texts actually not free, and (c) incorrect or missing thresholds (years and volumes information). |
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| Keywords: | broken links free ejournals metadata quality open access journals SFX SFX KnowledgeBase |
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