How the Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access Mandate + the "Fair Use" Button Work

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:52:37 +0100

    How the Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access Mandate + the "Fair Use"
    Button Work:
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/274-guid.html

Illustrates exactly how even embargoed (Closed Access) deposits can
provide almost-immediate almost-OA -- as long the deposit itself is done
immediately upon acceptance for publication -- with the help of the
Institutional Repository's "Fair Use" Button.

Stevan Harnad
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h
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    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/

UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS:
If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access
to your own research article output, please describe your policy at:
    http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html

OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
    BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
    http://romeo.eprints.org/
OR
    BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when
    a suitable one exists.
    http://www.doaj.org/
AND
    in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
    in your own institutional repository.
    http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
    http://archives.eprints.org/
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/
Received on Sun Jul 29 2007 - 00:07:36 BST