It would help a lot if patrons could make the Open Access Collection visible and available themselves e.g. by activating a single checkbox only for Open Access on the patron site.

We would like to add to the comment from 2019, "A lot of the e-books at Ebook Central are also available as Open Access via OA platforms like DOAB or OAPEN. Therefore we suggest that there is a note that highlights when an e-book at EBC is available as Open Acess via OA platforms. By this we then know that the actual book is also available as Open Access."

We think it is quite important that Proquest highlight ebooks also availablo as OA on platforms like OAPEN or DOAB. It's almost dishonest to claim payment for ebooks obviously published OA on other platforms. The least you could do is to make it viislble so that the library can choose if the want to pay extra for the functionality on the ebook central platform.

Attached are examples on ebooks available for purchase on ebook central but that are also available for free on OAPEN/DOAB.

Kind regards
/Charlotte Hertzberg & Ola Tengstam
Malmo University Library

The "enable Open Access Complete collection" checkbox in LibCentral > system settings actually does two things: [1] get approval to access the open access titles [2] include the titles in the autofeed into the Perpetual DDA collection. What if we want to manage the Open Access Complete collection separately? How to improve Ebook Central? Make it into two checkboxes, one for approval, the other one for autofeed, so there will be flexibility for your customers.

I second to add open access as an additional metadata field.

A lot of the e-books at Ebook Central are also available as Open Access via OA platforms like DOAB or OAPEN. Therefore we suggest that there is a note that highlights when an e-book at EBC is available as Open Acess via OA platforms. By this we then know that the actual book is also available as Open Access.