The ways of publishing affect your searching. All you want is to find a complete (full-text) article. Your go-to search strategy is Google, the search engine...
Problem: But wait one minute; that approach won't work. Why?? Publishers are in business to make money; they are providing a service but not for FREE. The academic journals with full-text articles that you need for your research project are only available for a price and are sold to academic libraries who are willing to pay big money for access. Miami University Libraries negotiates electronic journal and eBook deals with publishers like Elsevier, Oxford, Sage, Wiley . OhioLINK at the state level negotiates deals with publishers. These prices go up yearly while library budgets flatten or decrease so maintaining access is a big deal. Actual journal titles you may access change with changing rights and deals.
But wait, what about open access where everyone has free access to everything. Not a reality, yet. Yes, the publishing world is in transition and more content is available online free at various sites and using Google Scholar. But NOT everything. And often Google Scholar links back to Miami University Libraries' holdings for full-text access!
Solution: To get the complete journal article, go to The Gardner-Harvey Library website. Search one ore more library databases in Databases A-Z or use Articles & More (EBSCO Discovery Service), funded by Miami Libraries, to make access available to you.
Once you locate the journal articles you need, click the HTML or PDF full-text link which takes you magically to the complete article in that database or in another one via a "link resolver." All you do is enter your Miami ID and Password, when prompted, in order to search the library database and get the full-text article. Yes, these electronic resources are password-protected when you are off-campus, because these electronic resources are not free, as you now know. Google is no help at all here, sad but true.
Showing posts with label Open Access. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Open Access. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Monday, October 22, 2012
Open Access Week Oct 22-26
What
is Open Access?
Open Access to
information is the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly
research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need.
How
does this affect authors?
Check
out our updated and revised Author's Rights brochure, which can be downloaded
in PDF format.
How
does this affect students?
Information
on open access specific to undergraduates can be found at the Right to
Research site.
How does this
affect the library?
Without Open
Access we wouldn't be able to obtain articles from any of these great
databases:
Open Access resources which appear in our Databases A to Z list
- Hosted by
Cornell University.
- Includes
open access to 707,446 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science,
Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, and Statistics.
- The
Directory of Open Access Books is a service of OAPEN Foundation. The OAPEN
Foundation is an international initiative dedicated to Open Access
monograph publishing, based at the National Library in The Hague.
- DOAB
contains more than 1,000 academic peer-reviewed books from more than two
dozen publishers.
- Currently
includes 7,148 journal titles.
- Covers all open access scientific and scholarly journals.
- Journals must be peer reviewed or have editorial quality control.
- All content is free and full text, and none have embargo periods.
- Specific
information listed under each title includes publication fees (if any),
subject headings, keywords, publisher, ISSN(s), start date, language,
license information (if any), and archiving information (if any).
- PQDT Open
provides full text (PDF) of open access dissertations and theses free of
charge. The authors of these theses and dissertations have opted to
publish under the open access model.
- FDsys
provides free online access to official Federal Government publications.
You can search for documents and publications, browse for documents and
publications (by collection, Congressional, committee and date), access
metadata about documents and publications (in standard XML formats), and
download documents and publications in multiple renditions or file
formats.
- In 2011, the
National Academies Press made the vast majority of it's books available
for free in PDF format on their website. These e-books include
reports published by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy
of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research
Council. Subject areas include science, engineering, and
health. You will be asked to create a free account on the site at
the time of your first download.
- A growing
catalog of full-text electronic dissertations from a variety of
participating institutions, including MIT, Virginia Tech, University of
Virginia, OhioLINK, and numerous European institutions.
- The freely
accessible interface to the MEDLINE bibliographic database. Many
citations connect to full-text.
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