Shibboleth / InCommon

I discovered recently that UVM is a member of a group called InCommon which is working on a framework for managing user identities across institutions. They're using Shibboleth for authorization and access. The following vendors are either members or support InCommon: CSA, OCLC, Elsevier, Ebsco, JSTOR and Safari. There appears to be growing support for this from our e-resource vendors.

D&D Minutes 3/5/09

Minutes for D&D Meeting: 3/5/09
Peter, Selene, Scott, Dan, Fran, Laura, Lyman, and Daisy in attendance.

• Sean will be joining our group. He will begin taking responsibility for A-Z administration. Sean will begin attending our next scheduled D&D meeting.

• Shibboleth: There is still a question about how Shibboleth will work for authentication with our databases. Right now, Lyman knows that it will work with Science Direct.

• Both Scott and Peter voiced concerns that EJS Journals show an EBSCO link that should bring people to full-text but regularly does not. In these cases, full-text remains accessible through the publisher website. Peter will check in with Sean about this problem.

• The new website will roll out early next week. Updating URLs will be an ongoing process as problems are noticed. Comments will be solicited on the new site.

• Icons: Daisy presented new icons to be used in the catalog. She is still working on all of the icons needed, but all agreed that what she showed the group looked great.

• On the blog (below), Dan collected some sites that offer access to open-access journals. Most of the sites' listings will need to be checked for duplication with the open-access journals already in the catalog. Please look at the list below and comment on the packages presented. Please also add any other sites that offer open-access journals that could be considered for our catalog.

• Discussion took place regarding reassessment of our current catalog. Questions were raised about whether or not we should go forward with reassessing the choices for a new catalog or new catalog interface. There was general agreement that it would beneficial to look again at open-ware products like Vufind. People were asked to take a look at academic catalogs using Vufind for the next meeting.
  

Open Access Journals for the Catalog

I've done a very preliminary search of some open access journal collections. Here are some of the more promising collections:

DOAJ: http://www.doaj.org/
I believe this is the one Toni worked with the most. We have most of what's in here, but there is a good bit of content that we do not have in the catalog. I'd say every 8th or 9th title is missing. This makes me think it might be time to update the records or at least sort through to see what we're missing.

J-Stage: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/_journallist
This is a Japanese science and technology collection. We are lacking most of these titles. There is a lot of Japan-specific content, but also a lot of global research that would be useful to add.

University of Nevada Open Access Collection: http://www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/ejournals/free.aspx
Again, we have many of these titles, but we could also glean the list to pull out titles we lack.

Electronic Journals Library: http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=en
Again, a bit heavy on the foreign-language content, but also gleanable.

CoAction Publishing: http://www.co-action.net/journals/Journals_index.php?%20sessid=02661871&user=346351&env=Firefox&item=no
Only six or so titles, but they look like good titles to add.

Hindawi Publishing: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/titles.html
Open access journals from this publisher. You need to click on the journal title and then on the "Table of Contents" tab.

Please continue to update this as we identify more collections.