Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery - Staff Wiki
Preparing a Spreadsheet of Items to Enter
Notations||Federal Government Documents||Free or not||Creative Commons Licenses ||Open Access||Arxiv||More than20 years old||Unpublished||Versions Chart||Checking Rights||Journal articles||Scherpa-Romeo||Books and Book Chapters||Conference Papers and Proceedings||Collections||Spreadsheet
Do NOT process any items that Michelle has crossed off. If she crossed them off, she is instructing you not to process them.
If the work is published, you should have the metadata record and work from the publisher's site. Possibly you will also be working with with the work and metadata record on another site.
If you only have a file such as PDF, but no metadata record, web search to find the metadata record. If you have a metadata record but not a file, use the metadata record to open the file if possible. If the version of the file or the metadata record you have aren't the publisher's version, you should search the web to find them.
ResearchGate, Semantic Scholar, and Academia.edu are not publishers but for-profit businesses that allow people to post their works on them–they are never publishers.
Governments sites that compile works as a public service such as 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 not publishers, except the NASA Technical Report Server which is also a publisher for NASA works when NASA is given as the publisher on the record .
Other institutions' repositories aren't usually publishers (but sometimes are the publishers of journals and sometimes even books).
JSTOR is not a publisher, but hosts some journals for the publishers, and digitized back issues of journals. It is a fee-based resource, so we can't link to it, but if the publisher allows us to distribute the final published PDF, we use the PDF that's in JSTOR.
Preprint servers such as Arxiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and ESSOAr aren't publishers.
Personal and departmental websites aren't usually publishers (but sometimes departmental websites publish some of the department's works).
Google Docs or Drive aren't publishers (except very rarely when utilized by a publisher to post their works).
1A
Determine if the item is in scope for the repository and if it should be entered manually:
2A
Out of Scope (with exceptions noted): CV's, Obituaries, Patents, Abstracts with no Full Text, Theses and Dissertations
Cross these out on the print-out:
CV
Patent Application
Abstract with no full text document
Obituary unless the subject is affiliated with UMBC.
Description only of a grant funded project.
Theses or Dissertations:
Generally, if the item is a master thesis or PhD dissertation, or says Proquest Dissertation Publishing, we don't add manually–cross it off on the print-out. UMBC thesis and dissertations are automatically sent to UMBC by Proquest and batch loaded, so don't add to a spreadsheet.
EXCEPTION: We don't receive any senior theses from Proquest, so these should be added to the spreadsheet and manually loaded. Other institutions' master theses or PhD dissertations are out of scope.
2B
About UMBC or an Author Affiliated with UMBC
There must be a UMBC author or alternately, the item must be about UMBC, a UMBC department, or person affiliated with UMBC. Often, the authors’ affiliation is included on the item. If not, use the UMBC directory, here, http://www.umbc.edu/search/directory// to determine. If there is no UMBC author, and the subject is not UMBC, a UMBC department, or person, it's out of scope–cross it off on the print-out.
3A
U.S. Federal Government Publications
City, state, and county publications are not U.S. Federal Government publications. Items published by the United States government or written by employees of the United States government are U.S. Federal publications.
Examples of U.S. federal government publications:
Federal government employees can be identified by the agency the author works for, or .gov in the author's email address.
Federal government agencies often have U.S. or national in their name, e.g. U.S. Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). They can also be identified by a .gov URL (see exceptions below). Sometimes, you simply have to know that it's a federal government agency, e.g. Smithsonian Institution, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Some common government agencies that we encounter are:
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce)
The National Weather Service
NASA Goddard Flight Center and any other NASA (National Aeronatics and Space Adminstration) agencies
Army Research Labs
Navy Research Labs
NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce)
CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) and any CDC department or divisions
If you're not sure if a publisher is a U.S. federal government agency, google and look for the .gov in the URL. If the .gov is in the URL, it's a U.S. federal government agency.
The U.S. government is not the publisher of works on 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), except for works on the NASA Technical Report Server where another publisher isn't given in the record for the item.
If the publisher is the United States Government or an agency of the federal government, or if an author is an employee of the U.S. Federal Government and did the work as part of their official job duties, the work can be added on a Creative Commons Public Domain license. Note "Fed Gov Doc" on the print-out, and skip to "Determine which collections to add an item to."
When filling in the spreadsheet, U.S. federal government publications get one of these rights notes. Choose the appropriate one: “This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.” If the work is published by the U.S. Government, "This is a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law." In either case, put on a public domain creative commons license.
4A
Determining if an Item is Available for Free on the Web
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.
Some works are available for free in these U.S. government database:
ERIC, eric.edu.gov, (works on education)
Medline/PubMed, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ (medical works),
The NASA Technical Report Server, https://www.sti.nasa.gov/ (NASA Publications and NASA employee publications).
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 appear to be 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.
4B
Creative Commons License
Using the published version on the publisher's website, and the publisher's record, look for a Creative Commons license on the work itself or on its record. Note that if it's not free on the publisher's site, it is NOT on a Creative Commons license.If either says Creative Commons, the item can be added with both the publisher's file and a link to it. Add on the same Creative Commons license that it was published on. Note "cc license" on the print-out and skip down to "Determine which collections to add an item to."