Electronic Resources
Guidelines:
Use of the 506 Access Note to indicate a freely available electronic resource will be limited to Temple University associated resources and currently applies only to Temple University Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) and titles from the TULUP North Broad Press.
The use of the 506 field indicates that ETDs and North Broad Press publications are free-to-read. The format of this field is determined by LC’s Marc Standards and Access Restrictions Term Source Codes documentation.
The 506 field will not be applied to bibliographic records for other open access electronic resources provided by outside vendors such as the Open Textbook Library or the Directory of Open Access Journals.
Example:
506 0_ $$a Free-to-read $$f Unrestricted online access $$2 star
The following article helped to inform the decisions around the use of the 506 field in this manner:
Jeff Edmunds & Ana Enriquez (2020). “Increasing Visibility of Open Access Materials in a Library Catalog: Case Study at a Large Academic Research Library,” Journal of Library Metadata, 20:2-3, 127-154, DOI: 10.1080/19386389.2020.1821946
Note: Restrictions to access for purchased and subscription electronic resources limited to Temple University affiliated patrons will continue to be designated in a local 590 note. In Alma, this note can be added to records using the “Add 590 for electronic research records” Normalization Rule.
Example:
590 __ Access is available to the Temple Community through use of a networked computer with a Temple IP address.