Academic libraries have found themselves at the nexus of the OA paradigm shift during a time when they are facing increasing staffing and budgeting challenges. An R1 institution decided to take matters into their own hands to strategically analyze their collection and determine whether the research needs of their faculty and students could be served with an OA forward solution.

Join Ray Uzwyshyn, MSU’s Associate Dean of Collections Management and Strategy, along with CloudSource’s Rick Branham and Maryska Connolly as they discuss the changing landscape of open access and how CloudSource can help plan your OA strategy.

CloudSource OA, the new content discovery platform from SirsiDynix, aggregates and brings to light the global body of open access (OA) articles and open educational resources (OER). The index currently includes about 60M full-text open articles, eBooks, and other learning resources—and it is continuously growing. Unlike Google Scholar and other discovery providers, CloudSource OA resources contain one-click access to full text—no user authentication required and no wading through millions of irrelevant results with misleading links. Come to this session to learn more about how CloudSource OA delivers:

• Access to not just gold and diamond journals, but peer-reviewed content from hybrid journals that most discovery services will not expose unless you subscribe to these publications.
• Metadata enrichment to provide detailed publication information, subjects, abstracts, author affiliations, related articles, and reviews.
• Helpful widgets deliver permalinks, citation management, publisher links, ILL requests, print holdings, and more.
• Staff tools for curating the collections and running usage stats in COUNTER format.
• A free collection analysis of your current subscriptions—revealing how much of what you pay for is actually open and free to use.