[Irtalk] Publisher Open Access Embargoes and the Copy-Request Button - Open Access Archivangelism

[Hilton Gibson]

To derive the full benefit of the Frontiers in Innovation, Research,
Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act, it is now extremely important that all
universities and research institutions implement the faciltated
copy-request Button in their institutional repositories. (The repository
software as well as the Button are free for all.)

The Button ensures that even during a publisher embargo on Open Access (OA)
any researcher worldwide can immediately request and any author can
immediately provide a single copy of any embargoed deposit for research
purposes with just one extra click each — just as long as the author’s
final, peer-reviewed draft has been deposited in the repository immediately
upon acceptance for publication, rather than only after a publisher OA
embargo period has elapsed.

This is not OA. It is only “Almost-OA.” But the copy-request Button ensures
that the immediate-deposit does not lie fallow during any allowable OA
embargo period. And that’s what research and researchers need most.

For DSpace Repositories: *https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy>*
For EPrints Repositories : http://wiki.eprints.org/w/RequestEprint

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1112-.html
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