8/4/2020
Meeting with Lena to discuss what the practicum would entail and what forms need to be filled out to join.
Time: 0.5 hours
8/24/2020
Read through orientation documentation. Downloaded Chrome and added the extension. Downloaded Microsoft Teams. Signed up on Selected Works and added a profile picture and a brief biography.
Time: 1.5 hours (2/135)
8/25/2020
Meeting with Lena (and cohort Rob) about getting started on the practicum project. Went over how to navigate through the process and updated some of the documentation.
To do: Update A-grade documentation, work through a couple of faculty profiles upgrading their grades from F or D to B.
Time: 2 hours (4/135)
9/1/20
Went through the process of updating again after a week of not looking at it. We may need to update one of the steps with how to get to the SelectedWorks page of a faculty member. Worked out part of the A grading process.
Time: 1 hour (5/135)
9/2/20
On the F-D process I thought that steps 2 and 3 should be switched to make a more logical sequence. Do we need a screen shot of the professor’s name? Tried to read through and piece together new A rating directions. Returned later and saw that Lena had published A rating steps, so I reviewed them. I did not have any issues following the directions and updated a couple of faculty to A ratings. During the process of continuing to review more faculty, my Chrome extension stopped working. It took a couple of tries but I got it working again. I was able to work on 3 more faculty spreadsheets, but did not have to download any OA articles.
Time: 3 hours (8/135)
9/3/20
Meeting with Lena. We worked on refining the language for the A rating. I asked about changing a item type on a faculty bepress page. It was showing as an Article when it needed to be labeled as a book chapter. Lena advised to highlight the note under the Status column so that the staff in charge of the bepress page could fix it later. There was another column added to the main Rollafaculty spreadsheet that keeps track of how many OA pdfs we downloaded for each faculty member (if any).
Time: 25 minutes
Updated activity log. Reviewed past profiles to make sure I didn’t miss anything and to add any OA that was downloaded into the faculty member’s file.
Time: 40 minutes (9hrs, 5 min. /135)
9/7/20
Robert mentioned that the extension wasn’t working for him again. I tested the extension I had re-installed on Friday and let him know mine was working. He had done the same steps I had in re-installing, so I couldn’t help with the issue. Worked on a couple of faculty profiles. Notes: Added PDF “Characterization of lacustrine shale…” and “Heterogeneity of the Mineralology…” to Wan Yang’s folder. On line 60, I noted that the entry was duplicated on the Bepress page. On line 72 and 76 the DOI for the articles needs to be added to their respective entries on the Bepress page. I’ve provided the DOI. For researcher Melanie Mormile I added 2 PDFs, one an actual article and the second an errata for that article. These have their own entries and DOIs on her Bepress page, but are links right now. Both PDFs are OA.
Time: 2.5 hours (11 hrs., 35min. /135)
9/8/20
Updated my Activity Log with a couple of days worth of notes. Wrote out what each letter grade meant in my notebook so I would not have to keep referring to the WordPress site. Continued working where I left off yesterday. Added another file (“Nitrincola lacisaponesis…”) to Melanie Mormile’s folder bringing her to a total of 3 PDFs. Completed two more faculty members to A status.
Time: 1.5 hrs (13 hours, 5 minutes/135)
9/9/20
Prep for meeting with Lena. Went back to the beginning of the Rollafaculty spreadsheet to the two example faculty she used at the start of practicum to upgrade their profiles from C to A if possible. For j-rodgers I uploaded 3 additional files to his folder. There were a lot of missing articles from his Bepress profile page. I started on the second person and only had to download 1 OA file. I’m still working on going through her Bepress page looking for articles, but I should have her complete to A status tomorrow.
Time: 2 hrs (15 hrs, 5 minutes/135)
9/10/20
Worked on faculty member Lesley Sneed and downloaded 2 pdfs to her file. Noticed that 2 articles were metadata only on the Bepress page and decided to take a look at the articles. Both articles were, in fact, open access and from the same publisher. I checked the spreadsheet for any more articles published the same way and came across 2 more that were open access. They were listed as links on her Bepress page, so I downloaded those as well to add to her folder. Went through Rishong Wang’s articles and then downloaded Sajal Das’ Excell file (617 entries!) to work on at a later date.
Time: 1 hour (16 hrs, 5 minutes/135)
9/14/20
Worked through the Das file and downloaded 7 OA articles to put in his file. There were several articles that just stated “Editorial” as the title and only one was entered on the Bepress page. The entry in Bepress did not match the information of the Excell file, so I spent some time trying to figure out which DOI matched which Editorial and then matched the Bepress entry.
Time: 3 hours, 10 minutes (19 hrs, 15 minutes/135)
9/15/20
Searched the library website for an article since there was only metadata on the Bepress page. It wasn’t listed, so I went to the website of the journal the article was published in and found the article freely available on their site. Looked at website for Issues in Information Systems (articles are free) and had to search for the Journal for the Advancement of Marketing Education. Downloaded 4 articles
Had to look carefully through Kimball’s Bepress citations because many of his published articles started as conference proceedings. Met with Lena, everything is going well. Worked on Norman (3 downloads), Gelles, and Liang (1 download).
Time: 4 hours 25 minutes (23 hrs, 40 minutes/135)
9/17/20
3 Faculty not on Discovery website, but was able to work on 4. Chernatynskiy’s profile provided some challenges.
Questions for Lena: Do we download an approved manuscript if the article is not available? and 1 of the files looks like it is just a picture. Should this be downloaded? and AIP publishing is not OA, yet articles listed state they are and have a publisher PDF available. Searching multiple ways did not yield any OA results. Any insight?
Time: 2 hours 30 minutes (26 hrs, 10 minutes/135)
9/18/20
Meeting with Lena. Clarified rules for downloading OA articles (go behind the paywall to retrieve if not already accessible) and confirmed that I should download the picture. I also added a .txt file of the abstract that goes with the picture per Lena’s suggestion. The search feature on the library website wasn’t working, so I couldn’t go back and download the files I needed to complete Chernatynskiy. Made a note to try again and moved on to the next faculty name. Completed Alajo and started Fitch.
Time: 1 hour 50 minutes (28 hrs/135)
9/20/20
Went back to Chernatynskiy since the library search was working again. Downloaded 10 total files to his folder. Went back to work on Fitch and found several articles that were not publisher pdf, but were free as long as they were cited. He also has 10 files downloaded to his folder. Moved on to Khayat who has 3 downloads so far. There is one article that says it is open access, but it in truth behind a paywall. The link provided did not give any rules as to the use of the article. I was able to find the abstract to the article as open access, so that may be all that is available. I will check on this with Lena in our next meeting.
Time: 3 hours, 40 minutes (31 hrs, 40 min./135)
9/21/20
Updated log and scheduled meeting with Lena
Met with Lena and we talked about solutions to the issues mentioned above. She suggested that all of the Journal of Air and Waste Management articles should be put in their own folder in the faculty member’s folder. Maybe convert the PDF to Word and use as accepted manuscript? She also looked to see if there were rules for the use of the documents since they were not listed as Open Access but were freely available to download. The articles were listed as CC0 which is public domain, but it was not known if the author actually paid to have their article published this way. Lena showed me a really interesting feature the faculty can see- where in the world their papers have been downloaded. I will have to work on the files tomorrow.
Time: 1 hour (32 hours, 40 minutes)/135
9/22/20
Working on the weird files in the Fitch folder from yesterday. Worked on converting two of the documents from PDF to Word taking out and adding the appropriate information. Before I saved the second article, I noticed that Fitch’s name did not show up as an author. I checked the first one, and his name did not appear. This was true for the other articles as well. Sent Lena a message via chat about it. She agreed it was odd there were papers listed on the spreadsheet that did not pertain to the faculty member. I checked the next faculty member I had downloaded the same day, and as far as I could tell, there was no issue. Maybe the extension picked up something that it wasn’t supposed to?
Continued to work on Khayat (he has a very long list of articles since he has published since 1989!).
Time: 3 hours, 20 minutes (36 hours/135)
9/24/20
Completed Khayat (not all listings had DOIs) and listed 4 total downloads in his file. I checked 5 other faculty and completed 3. 2 were not listed on the Discovery website. There were no additional downloads.
Time: 1 hour (37 hours/135)
9/25/20
Meeting with Lena. Downloaded the Excel info for Stephen Raper.
Time: 30 minutes (37.5 hours/135)
9/30/20
Downloaded Irina Ivliyeva. There was nothing with a DOI, or any OA, she was graded a C. Downloaded and graded two more faculty. The second, Michael Schulz had a paper that was published in 2020 that is open access. The checker did not catch this and I wonder if it’s because it’s new? Something to ask Lena next time.
Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes (39 hours, 35 minutes/135)
10/1/20
Completed two more faculty with no OA findings. Worked on Rainer Glaser and downloaded 1 article for their folder. Started on Jonghyun Park and downloaded 4 articles for their folder.
Met with Lena and discussed why an article may not have been caught by the checker. She said that it uses Unpaywall and the site may not have that particular journal listed as open access yet. I shared with her my shortcuts I had written down to assess the grades we are giving the faculty once we are done checking their Excel file with their BePress page. She suggested I create a checklist on our Word Press site so that others could use it as well.
Time: 3 hours, 10 minutes (42 hours, 45 minutes/135)
10/6/20
Finished Jonghyun Park (5 files in their folder). One article (Direct Aerosol Printing) was OA which the checker did not catch again. There was metadata on the BePress file but nothing on the spreadsheet. I added a row to the spreadsheet and highlighted it in yellow. I downloaded the PDF and added it to their file.
Worked on Ronald Frank (1 in file) and Daniel Forciniti (3 in file). In the Forciniti Excel file there were two articles that I ended up downloading that were OA and not listed as such. When I tried to find the journals via a search on Sherpa/Romeo they did not come up. The journals are: Journal of Chromatography and Separation Techniques (ISSN 2157-7064) and Biochemistry and Analytical Biochemistry (ISSN 2161-1004). The cataloger in me wants to look up those titles in OCLC to see their history!
Worked on Emelia Barbosa (1 article in file) and currently working through Ming Leu who has over 350 research articles listed on their BePress page. As I am working through the OA articles (I always do those first) I came across one where the link on the BePress site and the DOI took to you the same webpage that would not load the PDF. I had to log in to the MU library’s website and download it from there. I checked the rules for the journal, and it is OA, the link just isn’t working right now. (Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences)
I finished going through the OA for Ming Leu and have a total of 4 PDFs in their file.
Time: 4.5 hours (47 hours, 10 minutes/135)
10/7/20
Worked more on Ming Leu
Time: 30 minutes (47 hours, 40 minutes/135)
10/8/20
Finished Ming Leu and started on Cihan Dagli. Their more recent works (2018 on) are mostly OA, so good for him! Most are also already listed as Downloads on his BePress page, so I only had to download 3 to put in their file.
Time: 1.5 hours (49 hours, 10 minutes/135)
10/13/20
Continued work on Cihan Dagli. Most of their works are listed on their BePress page, but I found another Inside the Title Page to add. There are 4 total files in their folder.
Question for Lena: I know we’ve talked about this before, but please remind me; if something is listed as cc by-nc-nd can I download it for the IR? From what I read, this is the strictest creative commons license and the article cannot be used commercially.
Completed 4 more faculty with a total of 4 more files added.
Time: 3.5 hours (52 hours, 40 minutes/135)
10/15/20
Meeting with Lena this morning. She answered my question about the articles I found. It looked like the checker had identified the articles by the publisher instead of the individual journal (which was OA). As I have found out, the checker isn’t perfect. Lena added a VLookup to the Excel sheet to make it easier to find all of the articles that had been missed. If I used Excel a lot and needed to look things up, this feature would be worth practicing.
Time: 40 minutes (53 hours, 10 minutes/135)
10/18/20
Worked on obtaining the missing articles for Cihan Dagli. In all, there were 33 articles that I was able to find and put in their folder. Worked on 3 more faculty adding 4 more articles. One article from scirp.org did not want to download in Chrome. I had to pull it up in Firefox for the PDF to be downloaded properly so that I could save it.
Time: 2 hours, 40 minutes (55 hours, 50 minutes/135)
10/23/20
Worked on two faculty with no downloads.
Time: 20 minutes (56 hours, 10 minutes/135)
10/27/20
Continued with Kwame Offei. All OA was already available as downloads on his BePress profile.
Time: 35 minutes (56 hours, 45 minutes/135)
10/28/20
Completed Ting Shen and started working through Jianmin Wang. BePress site went down.
Time: 20 minutes (57 hours, 5 minutes/135)
10/30/20
Completed Jianmin Wang and moved on to Shoaib Usman. Added 3 files to his folder so far. Checked in with Lena on progress through chat.
Time: 45 minutes (57 hours, 50 minutes/135)
11/3/20
Completed Usman, David Duvernell, Ashok Midhar, and Ralph Flori (7 articles added to his folder). Worked on Richard Dawes and found an article that was published in an open access journal (Journal of Petroleum & Environmental Biotechnology) that was behind a paywall. I used Sherpa/Romeo to look up information about article use. After 12 months, all articles are able to be published in IR with attribution. Since the article was published in 2012, I added it to his folder. (3 total articles in his folder)
Time: 2 hours, 35 minutes (60 hours, 25 minutes/135)
11/5/20
Continued work on Dawes. Added 18 total articles to his folder.
Time: 1 hour 10 minutes (61 hours, 35 minutes/ 135)
11/6/20
Quick meeting with Lena on progress. She asked me to review the UMKC workflow and work with Kaitlin to run through a test department.
Time: 20 minutes (61 hours, 55 minutes/135)
11/9/20
Looked at UMKC workflow written by Kaitlin. Took one of the departments with just a few faculty listed (Restorative Clinical Studies) and worked through the instructions. I only found one thing to change in the workflow, which was to add a more specific description.
Original sentence: If they do not have any, mark them as an A and move on to the next professor.
New sentence: If they do not have any, mark them as an A in the “grade” column in the faculty profile list and move on to the next professor.
After completing this, I continued my work on the Rolla faculty completing work on Dawes and starting work on Islam El Adaway. I added 4 files to El Adaway’s folder. I also found a short-cut in getting the Works Link copied from the BePress site without having to leave the faculty member’s home page. If you right click on the title of the article you need to copy the link for, it gives you the option to “Copy link address”. Then, you can just go back to your spreadsheet and paste the link. This will save a lot of time by not having to re-load the homepage every time you need a link.
To do this week: Mid-term assessment
Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes (63 hours, 40 minutes)
11/10/20
Updated log. Completed El Adaway, Michael Bruening, Kristen Donnel. Found an OA work for Akim Adekpedjou is not completely free, as it is embargoed for a year. The embargo is due to expire 11/21/20 and I could not access the article because the library does not subscribe to the journal. I noted this on his spreadsheet. Completed David Wronkiewicz and added 1 article to his folder. Started work on Joel Burken.
Time: 2 hours, 45 minutes (66 hours, 25 minutes/135)
11/12/20
Updated log
Time: 20 minutes (66 hours, 45 minutes/135)
11/14/20
Worked on mid-term report. Added up all of the OA articles I’ve downloaded so far, and it came to 113! Worked on Joel Burken, David Grow (added 1 file to his folder), Denise Baker, and downloaded Genda Chen’s Excel file. I added 1 article to his folder since most of his open access was already accessible through his BePress page. He has over 400 works on his BePress pages, so I have a feeling I will be working though his articles for a while.
Time: 2 hours (68 hours, 45 minutes/135)
11/16/20
Meeting with Lena. We added the shortcut I found for the articles to the instructions. I continued work on Genda Chen.
Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes (70 hours, 5 minutes/135)
11/18/20
Continued and completed work on Genda Chen. Started on Robert Paige and added 2 articles to his folder. One article title was metadata only on his BePress page. I investigated the article more by pulling it up by its DOI and looking up the journal on the Sherpa/Romeo site. It was confirmed the journal was an OA journal. The checker had only looked at the publisher level, so it missed this journal (Journal of Insect Science https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access)
Found a second OA Journal because the article name was on the Excel sheet twice, with two different DOIs. I plugged in both DOIs and they both took you to the same page. The broad Wiley OA rights and permissions were too broad, so I looked up the specific journal through Sherpa/Romeo. It was indeed an OA journal (Journal of Vector Ecology https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/6919).
Started work on Joseph Newkirk and found there were several articles published by Emerald Publishing. I looked in to their policy for adding articles to an IR, and it looks like we can. One of the things I looked for was the Creative Commons license of CC-BY-NC, which should grant us permission to post with attribution. I want to verify my thinking is correct with Lena before I pursue downloading articles.
Article: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/13552540710776188/full/html
Journal permissions in Sherpa/Romeo: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/2982
Emerald Publishing’s policy: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/open-research-emerald/our-open-research-policies
I kept moving forward with the other open access articles the checker caught, and the next one I found was in Russian! Also verifying this download with Lena.
Time: 3 hours, 15 minutes (73 hours, 20 minutes/135)
11/19/20
Continued with Joseph Newkirk
Time: 1 hour (74 hours, 20 minutes/135)
11/20/20
Meeting with Lena. Discussed articles found in Joseph Newkirk Excel sheet and determined that the journal in question is not OA. Also discussed briefly how the articles become OA depending on how the publisher gets paid (Green vs. Gold). The Russian article is good to download.
Time: 30 minutes (74 hours, 50 minutes/135)
11/30/20
Updated my log. Continued work on Joseph Newkirk. Downloaded the Russian article and added it to his folder. Worked on 7 more faculty and added 2 more articles. We are almost done with the Missouri S & T list (Rolla)! There were 421 faculty on the list and we added folders for roughly half. Johanna and I were the last people working on the list, and after our practicum meeting with Laura England-Biggs I asked her about completing the list. We agreed that I could wrap things up and we are both waiting for Lena to confirm our next steps.
Worked on 2 more faculty and added 2 more articles to their folders. In the case of Andreas Eckert, one of the articles is listed as an author’s corrected proof. It also states that it is ‘in press’ meaning it has not been assigned an official volume to be published in. Since the journal is open access, they have already released the article online (June 2020) while it waits for a volume number. Below is the article:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674775520300688?via%3Dihub
Articles in press
Articles in press are accepted, peer reviewed articles that are not yet assigned to volumes/issues, but are citable using DOI.
There are two faculty left on the list and I completed one this evening. The last faculty member has over 200 articles to look through, so I will look at his works in the morning.
Time: 4 hours, 30 minutes (79 hours, 20 minutes/135)
12/1/20
Updated my log and continued work on J.S. (he has a long name, so I will use initials). Added 2 files to his folder. There was one title (System and method for harvesting energy from environmental vibrations) that had a bad DOI. I looked for the title of the article using MU’s library website and it came up with a patent application. Still unsure how the checker could have chosen this as an OA article, I accessed the journal through the library website. I then did a search for the title again. This yielded articles that listed recent patents, thus how the patent application was confused for an actual article.
Since we have reached the end of the Rolla faculty with each faculty member assigned to a practicum student, I have added up the total number of articles I have added to the Rolla folder- 147. I sent Lena a chat message and asked if I could move on to the next school and she agreed. Tomorrow I’ll help my fellow student with tackling UMKC!
Total: 3 hours (81 hours, 20 minutes/135)
12/3/20
Started work on UMKC. Other students had said their checker was being very slow, but I had no issues. Started working through the Biological Sciences department. Downloaded 9 faculty Excel sheets and was able to add 31 OA files to the department folder.
Time: 2 hours (83 hours, 20 minutes/135)
12/4/20
Meeting with Lena. I mentioned that although the Rolla file had all of the faculty claimed, I had still seen a lot of faculty with a C grade. They weren’t claimed by me, so I did not know if the student who claimed them was truly done. She advised me to do a run through and check the ones that had a C grade and upgrade them if necessary. So, back to Rolla tomorrow.
Time: 30 minutes (83 hours, 50 minutes/135)
12/5/20
Updated my log and calculated my remaining time (52 hours) started review of Rolla files. Found 2 of mine that were still listed as C. They had no articles with DOIs or any OA, so I gave them an A grade. Kymmi is still working on Rolla, so I’m not sure if I am supposed to finish the rest of her work or let her keep going. Will talk to Lena Monday about that.
Back to UMKC. Lena had tested the download speed of the Chrome extension with a department (Basic Medical Services) and only downloaded the Excel files. I’m going back through each file and upgrading their status to A. I worked through 6 faculty so far and added 40 OA files. The last faculty member file I opened has 1,061 articles that were checked, so it will take me a while to go through!
Notes on a few of the faculty files:
Jannette-Berkley Patton had a lot of articles that were just a DOI and a title with no OA information. I did a random check on a few of these and did find that some of them were OA, so I did go through the rest of them. I originally had only 1 OA file for her, and ended up with 5 total.
Jared Bruce had an article in a journal that could be used in the IR, but I did not have access to download it. Sent an email to Lena to see if she could get it.
Jennifer Allsworth had an article that was listed as OA, but what the checker really picked up wits the IR deposit for some of the other authors. It’s listed as the pre-pub author manuscript of the final published article.
Time: 4 hours, 30 minutes (88 hours, 20 minutes/135)
12/6/20
Updated my log and continued working on John Spertus. I ended up downloading 118 files for his folder. I worked on 7 additional faculty adding 50 more files. There are 7 faculty left in the folder Lena downloaded Excel files to.
Time: 5 hours, 15 minutes (93 hours, 35 minutes/135)
12/7/20
Meeting with Lena this morning. We discussed the best way to get an article that I did not have access to through the library for the purposes of the practicum. Interlibrary loan is the best way to do this, so I requested the article I needed.
Reviewing work on Rolla files, making sure all entries were completed to either an A or F grade. Completed files on 11 more faculty, with 1 more in progress.
Collaborated with colleagues to finalize completion of the Rolla project. Reviewed faculty files and retrieved open access articles for dissemination.
Time: 6 hours, 15 minutes (99 hours, 50 minutes/135)
12/8/20
Looked at a PDF that I contacted Lena about previously. I looked at requesting it from the library, but they had an open access version available. It turned out to be an IR deposit for one of the other authors at their home institution. I was able to take that article and modify it for our purposes so that we would not waste resources in asking for an interlibrary loan. Lena and I discussed the best way to edit PDFs with a limited budget.
Time: 1 hour (100 hours, 50 minutes/135)
12/9/20
Continued work on Stephen Gao. Received the ILL request I put in for an article and added it to his folder. This article was published in May 2019. According to the publisher (Wiley Online) they allow IR deposit of the final published version after a 12-month embargo for scientific journals. Since it was not accessible even through the libraries, I had to request it through ILL. I added 6 articles to Gao’s folder. Worked through 4 more faculty and had a meeting with Lena.
I asked her about Data Sets since I noticed a lot of them on Wen Deng’s BePress page. She explained to me that they were data sets from the research the faculty were doing. These sets did not have to be published with an article and could be stand-alone. This allows for others to try and reproduce the results. I also noticed that there was only metadata for these files instead of an entire entry or even a DOI. Lena showed me how the data sets can be found in Scholars’ Mine with just the title of the data set.
I brought a faculty member’s BePress page to her attention that had some code as a heading for the author’s works. Instead of the title “Research Articles” there was the beginning of a page break in code. Lena notified the Rolla IR librarian so that they could fix it.
Worked through one more faculty member. They had 6 articles I had to order through ILL because they were behind a paywall.
Time: 6 hours, 30 minutes (107 hours, 40 minutes/135)
12/11/20
Received 4 of the 6 ILL requests for Muthana Al Dahan. Downloaded the files and added them to his folder. Even though I worked processing ILLs in my previous jobs, it still amazes me how libraries work together to make articles and other materials accessible to the people who need them.
Worked on 12 more faculty adding a total of 11 articles. I had to look up the permissions for IR deposits for AIP again. They allow the author to deposit the final published version in an IR after a 12-month embargo. I was able to download the article I needed through the library’s access to add to the faculty member’s folder.
Time: 5 hours, 30 minutes (113 hours, 10 minutes/135)
12/12/20
Looked up what work I needed to do to finalize practicum. Filled out the student evaluation of supervisor and reviewed what was needed in my final report.
Downloaded another ILL that came in for Muthana Al Dahan. Still waiting on 1 more. Worked through 4 more faculty and downloaded one article.
One of the articles was on CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe).
http://mr.crossref.org/iPage?doi=10.1260%2F1756-8250.5.1.25
I am familiar with the concept of the archive, but I’m not familiar with how or why articles get triggered for storage. I am familiar with PORTICO since TCU used that for a 2nd back up for their journals. One of the biggest differences between the two archives is that CLOCKSS makes the articles/journals open access once they are defunct. PORTICO only gives access to those who are paying for the service. Both archives belong to issn.org’s keepers archiving agencies.
Worked through one more faculty member and downloaded 6 more files. One article was on agu.org. They allow IR deposits after a 6 month embargo. agu.org releases all of their materials after 24 months. Since this article was published February 2020, so I requested it through ILL.
Time: 5 hours, 20 minutes (118 hours, 30 minutes/ 135)
12/13/20
Updated my log and worked on 3 more faculty. Added 6 files. For Evgeniy Torgashov the last article was in Russian. It was OA and could be downloaded, but the page did not automatically ask me to have it translated to English. Most of the parts about the article itself were in English, but the page in general was in Russian. It took a few tries, but I finally found a tiny PDF file in the center of the page. I was able to download this to add to his folder.
His BePress page did not have the Missouri S & T logo on the top left, so I’ll contact Lena about that tomorrow to pass on to the librarian.
Worked on 3 more faculty and added 5 more files. I am almost done with the Rolla file review and will be moving back to the UMKC files soon.
Time: 4 hours, 40 minutes (123 hours, 10 minutes/135)
12/14/20
Confirmed hours worked and had a meeting with Lena. Continued working through the Rolla files. Two faculty with 6 articles added. I confirmed the completion of all faculty files to at least a B grade. One of the ILL requests I ordered came in, and I added that to the faculty folder of Kelly Liu. I’m still waiting for one ILL. Returned to UMKC’s folder to complete the Basic Medical Studies folder. Left a note on John Spertus’ Excel file regarding the pmc (Pub Med Central) entries that were highlighted. Worked through 2 faculty folders and added 29 files. One was from the University of Chicago Press. The checker said that the article was Open Access, but when I looked it up, it was locked. After looking up the permissions (12 month embargo before deposit in an IR) I highlighted it to be requested from ILL.
Time: 5 hours, 20 minutes (128 hours, 30 minutes/135)
12/15/20
Worked through the last 4 faculty in the Basic Medical Sciences folder for UMKC. Added 32 articles to make a total of 286 open access articles downloaded for this department. I am continuing on to a folder I had started before moving back to Rolla: Biological Sciences. I worked through 6 faculty and added 53 open access articles.
Time: 4 hours (132 hours, 30 minutes/135)
12/16/20
Completed all faculty reviews in the Biological Sciences tab. I looked through the Biomedical and Health Information tab and recognized almost all of the names in this file. All faculty listed here (with the exception of Stacy Farr who was not in the database at all) were also listed under the Basic Medical Sciences tab. The same thing happened with the Cell Biology and biophysics faculty with the exception of 1 person. I started on the Chemistry Department and completed 4 faculty members before my allotted practicum hours were completed. In total, I downloaded 44 articles today.
Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes (135/135 hours)
In summary, this semester I was able to download and disseminate over 400 open access articles belonging to faculty members at a publicly funded institution of higher learning. In doing so, I have learned how to search for embargo rules, the differences between levels of open access, how to look up journals in Sherpa/Romeo and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), and how to determine if an article is open access or just free. This practicum challenged me because I have not worked with open access or institutional repositories in an academic institution. I learned how different these types of articles are made accessible as compared to a typical catalog record for a journal or book. This insight will be helpful in my journey as a professional librarian because I plan on working in Technical Services or with Digital Scholarship.