[CARLIOpenAccessReview] Last Call: Second round of Open Access E-collections to Review

[Green, Denise D]

Hello all, thank you for your work already on the Excel file named "New Alma Open Access or Free ecollections Round 2".  If you haven't had a chance, please examine and comment on https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uofi.app.box.com/file/1167510074806__;!!DZ3fjg!8ULTYxtM6LBpt9BihUWj0xIxd_ZO_-0zAVwih5Ww6wJiQJ126HTjZ8JAjezyR1-Atk6z_DWDd3uhAIa3HY1jvRTqy8hNyfBh0IQo$ 
by the end of Thursday April 6th.
Denise



Hello CARLI Open Access Review group,

We have a second round of Open Access/Free E-collections for your review. In creating this roster, I drew on the list provided by a January 5th email from Amy Fry and Zhaneille Green,  as well as Alma Content notes and questions sent to CARLI support's email.

Please note three observations for your comment as well as the list of e-collections:


  1.  Two e-collections are affiliated with questionable publishers:

MDPI Open Access Books
MDPI Open Access Journals

We left them in the roster for your review.


  1.  Many of these e-collections have a 70% percentage or higher overlap with currently active NZ e-collections including:

American Society for Microbiology Open Access
Brillonline Open Access Books
Cambridge Books - Open Access
Co-Action Open Access Journals
Ebook Central Open Access Complete
Edward Elgar Open Access
Journals at Ovid Open Access Journal Rolling
Liverpool University Press Open Access
Manchester Hive
MDPI Open Access collections (both ebooks and journals)
Peter Lang Open Access Ebooks
University of Adelaide Press (Open Access)
Walter De Gruyter: Open Access eBooks

Of course, overlap between aggregators like DOAJ and publisher provider e-collections is to be expected. We left them in the roster for your review


  1.  Finally, there are also predominantly non-English language e-collections for your review.

Examples in this roster:

Peter Lang Open Access Ebooks
UTB eLibrary Open Access
Walter De Gruyter: Open Access eBooks


Within the Box Folder  https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uofi.app.box.com/file/1167510074806__;!!DZ3fjg!8ULTYxtM6LBpt9BihUWj0xIxd_ZO_-0zAVwih5Ww6wJiQJ126HTjZ8JAjezyR1-Atk6z_DWDd3uhAIa3HY1jvRTqy8hNyfBh0IQo$   is an Excel file named "New Alma Open Access or Free ecollections Round 2"  with the roster of Open Access titles to review. We decided each time there are titles shared there would be a two-week review period. This means we need your initials in the column L (or not) by April 4, 2023.

Thank you, and don't hesitate to ask any questions!


Denise D. Green
Senior Library Services Coordinator
(she, her, hers)
Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in
Illinois (CARLI)
1704 Interstate Dr.
Champaign, IL 61822
217-244-9697

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