Open J-Gate
March 1, 2006
Found on Peter Scott’s Library Blog, Open J-Gate is "an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain." It indexes over 3,000 open access journals and links to full text on publishers’ websites. Looking at the content, it looks like this list would be more useful for academic libraries than the rest of us, but perhaps it’s worth a link on your research tools page.
March 16th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
OPEN J-GATE
Your inference — “Looking at the content, it looks like this list would be more useful for academic libraries than the rest of us, but perhaps it’s worth a link on your research tools page” is NOT TRUE.
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Open J-Gate indexes significant number of industry and trade-press journals in the open access domain.
Appreciate your feedback.
Thanks
Sathya
March 16th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
The reason I believe it is more useful for academic libraries than for other libraries–school, public, special–is that the types of reference and research questions we get are not best answered with this type of resource. Open Access journals are very useful for university students or high level researchers doing reseasrch for projects or assignments. However, for the typical public or school library users, the type of information included in most journals, open access or not, is not usually appropriate or useful for the types of questions they ask. I ran searches for 10 recent reference queries I received at our public library, and none of them had any useful information found in J-Gate. It’s not to say it’s not useful or a good resource–it is. If I didn’t think it was, I wouldn’t have posted about it on my blog. It’s just not something that would be useful to me at my type of library for the types of questions I receive.