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*
_________________
John G. Dove, personal e-mail
johngd...@gmail.com
Check out my latest post on LinkedIn: SPARC M.O.R.E Poster Presentation on
messaging to cited scholars re OA
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sparc-more-poster-session-john-dove?>
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