Representing Open Content in Access Fields (Free to Read)

The Library downloads sets of Open Access records to enhance its collection. We want to be able to filter Open Access only records in the collection. These may be used by non-PSU people using our catalog, by professors who want to develop OA-centric reading lists and syllabi in order to promote reuse, etc. This also aligns with our strategic goal to promote open access.

Rather than add another sidebar filter for now, it makes sense to consider Open Access as another form of Access. We may test and change this later on. We will update Access to add the field "Free to REad" to "In the Library" "Online" "On Order."

Currently, we have a set of protocols for distinguishing between Open Access and things like government documents, which may be open by their nature. This indexing process will identify records which are the former.

Indexing Logic and MARC Fields

We can identify these records using the values of two different MARC subfields. I don't know the best logical order in which to make these tests.

IF 506$2 == star AND 856$7 == 0 THEN add Access == "Open Access"

These will also be Online access, since they're digital items.

Further description of the fields below.

MARC Field	description	expected value
506 subfield 2	Field 506 records conditions on access. subfield 2 indicates source. We are tagging all these records with "star" in subfield 2. However, some others are tagged with it, so this value is not enough in itself	star
856 subfield 7	this subfield records the access status of a link (856). It uses 0, 1, u, z to record whether an item is open access. OA items are 0.	0

Display

For now, we won't do a specialized display for these items. We may use this later on to do some kind of specialized display or flag.

Advanced Search

Add to Access drop-down in Advanced Search.

Faceting

Add to Access facet.