Open Access and Free Journals Collections in CUFTS update

The open access and free journals collections in CUFTS are growing, both in number of titles and in collections! There are now more than 6,000 open access and free titles available through reSearcher, an increase of about a thousand since the last update in August 2008.

The CUFTS Free! Open Access Collections Group has added more than 200 hand-picked titles in the past few months. New collections have been made available thanks to the commercial sector (EBSCO's Greenfile, Nature Publishing Group Open Access Archive), the hard work and dedication of SFU Library Staff, such as Faith Jone's hand-created Canadian Historic Newspapers list, and Christine Manzer's expert work on the J-Stage list, society publishers (BioOne Open Access), Athabasca University (ICAAP), and open access publishers such as Hindawi.

As a default, BC ELN turns ON the open access and free collections in CUFTS for all BC ELN non-COPPUL libraries. If you would prefer NOT to have open access and free collections turned on as a default, please contact Heather Morrison, BC ELN (non-COPPUL libraries). COPPUL and other reSearcher libraries, contact Kevin Stranack.

A full list of open access and freely available collections is available at:
http://www.eln.bc.ca/view.php?id=1129

The Open Access and Free Collections are available as an A to Z list, MARC records for free download, and downloadable tab-delimited or .csv files are available for most title lists.

More information about the CUFTS Free! Open Access Collections group can be found at:
http://www.eln.bc.ca/view.php?id=1508