Abstract
Metadata and open access publishing continue to be topics of debate and discussion in the popular media, blogs, and listservs. Different points of view exist among librarians, researchers, publishers, and others, and several examples will be presented regarding open access journals and articles and digital data from the perspective of metadata and accessibility. Open access content is the utmost accessible content, if students and researchers know how to find it and know how to judge whether what they find is worthy of inclusion in their research. The discussion will focus on how to make open access publications and articles more accessible. Questions the paper will strive to answer are: • What metadata elements would help academic librarians and researchers find these resources within the larger databases, institutional repositories, and/or discovery services? • How do librarians vet open access publications for research by students and faculty? How do they determine which titles to include in their catalogs and how to catalog them? • What additional information would be helpful? What role could publishers of directories and providers of link, search, and discovery services play to that would lead to open access content? • How can metadata better describe digital data and make it more accessible to researchers?
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