Open Access Mandates and the "Fair Dealing" Button

[Stevan Harnad <amsciforum@gmail.com>]

[Apologies for Cross-Posting]

Open Access Mandates and the "Fair Dealing" Button
http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3074
or
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/
or
https://www.acces.uqam.ca/2614/1/,DanaInfo=www.archipel.uqam.ca+saledraftv5.pdf

Arthur Sale, Marc Couture, Eloy Rodrigues, Leslie Carr, Stevan 
Harnad

To appear in "Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture 
Online" (Rosemary J. Coombe & Darren Wershler, Eds.)

ABSTRACT: We describe the "Fair Dealing Button," a feature 
designed for authors who have deposited their papers in an Open 
Access Institutional Repository but have deposited them as 
"Closed Access" (meaning only the metadata are visible and 
retrievable, not the full eprint) rather than Open Access. The 
Button allows individual users to request and authors to provide 
a single eprint via semi-automated email. The purpose of the 
Button is to tide over research usage needs during any publisher 
embargo on Open Access and, more importantly, to make it possible 
for institutions to adopt the "Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access" 
Mandate, without exceptions or opt-outs, instead of a mandate 
that allows delayed deposit or deposit waivers, depending on 
publisher permissions or embargoes (or no mandate at all). This 
is only "Almost-Open Access," but in facilitating exception-free 
immediate-deposit mandates it will accelerate the advent of 
universal Open Access.

12 pages, 5 figures, 32 references.