[Athen] Open access resources

[Heather P. Westerlund]

Question about open access resources--  If your institution has a policy that all 3rd party commercial vendors must meet a certain level of web accessibility, how do you (or don't you) apply this to non-commercial, freely available open access (OA) resources?

For example, in our library, we include many OA resources in our list of databases (e.g. Project Gutenberg<http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page>) and we do recommend them when appropriate. Some of these freely available resources likely don't meet a certain level of accessibility (and don't have accessibility statements or VPATs). Most of these resources are not required for course work.

TIA
Heather Westerlund
IT Manager, Library Services
Walden University Library<http://library.waldenu.edu/>

612.312.1270  |  heather.westerlund at waldenu.edu<mailto:heather.westerlund at waldenu.edu>
100 Washington Ave S, Ste 900  |  Minneapolis, MN 55401

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