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- The determination of whether an item is free is based on whether the publisher is making the item available for free or if the U.S. government is making an item available for free. There may be free versions posted elsewhere, but if an item is not free on the publisher's site, or in a U.S. government database, it's not free.
- When working at home, any item you can access on the publisher's site or in a database without using the proxy server is free.
- Items available for free in the U.S. government database, ERIC, eric.edu.gov, (works on education), Medline/PubMed, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ (medical works), and the NASA Technical Report Server, https://www.sti.nasa.gov/ (NASA Publications and NASA employee publications), are free. Sometimes articles in these databases are free, and sometimes they're not free, so you have to figure this out. A pubmed record may have a link icon that says free or an attached pdf. When unsure if an item is free or not, simply try the links to find out.
- When working in the library, materials in databases that UMBC subscribes to may appear free when they are not. These are paywall protected pages where anyone accessing via UMBC IP ranges automatically is given access. Generally if there is a UMBC logo or mention of UMBC on the page, it's a subscription resource that is paywall protected. A list of UMBC paywall protected subscription resources that appear free is here: Vendors/Platforms that are Paywall Protected (this list is likely not complete–if come across something that needs to be added to it, let Michelle know). Individual items on paywall protected sites are free if the record explicitly states that the item is open access, available for free, or is on a Creative Commons license. Science Direct is a subscription database and not free, even though UMBC isn't mentioned on it, unless the record says it's Under an Elsevier user license, or Open Access, in which case that particular item is free. If Open Access, check for a Creative Commons license or terms.
- If an item is free on the publisher's site or in a U.S. government database, write "free" next to it.
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IF the item you have is a journal article, Check SHERPA/RoMEO, http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php, for the journal. If you don't find it, go to the next step. If you find the journal, determine what version or versions of the article that we can post. Note this next to the item. Then determine if the version you have is a version we can post. Note that this is usually not stated, but you have to figure it out using the version chart. If the version you have is a version that we can post, add it to your spreadsheet (including all terms), crossing off the version notations and writing SS on the item.Anchor Scherpa-romeo Scherpa-romeo
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