<div dir="ltr">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.)<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>For DSpace Repositories: <b><font color="#ff0000"><a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy">https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy</a></font></b><br>For EPrints Repositories : <a href="http://wiki.eprints.org/w/RequestEprint">http://wiki.eprints.org/w/RequestEprint</a><div>
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