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Arcadia Fund Increases Support for our Work
“We’re thrilled to announce that Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, has generously committed to continue its support of our work with a four-year, $1,870,000 grant. Building on the investments we’ve already made in the past couple of years thanks to Arcadia, we’ll use this to double down on our flagship tools such as InstantILL.org and Shareyourpaper.org that make it easier to make papers Open Access and improve researchers’ ability to do their work without expensive subscriptions….”
cOAlition S chooses Shareyourpaper.org Permissions for Plan S Journal Checker Tool
“After an extensive competitive search, we’re proud to announce that cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funders working towards making full and immediate Open Access a reality, has chosen Shareyourpaper.org Permissions to supply self-archiving policy data for their new Plan S Journal Checker Tool….”
cOAlition S chooses Shareyourpaper.org Permissions for Plan S Journal Checker Tool
“After an extensive competitive search, we’re proud to announce that cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funders working towards making full and immediate Open Access a reality, has chosen Shareyourpaper.org Permissions to supply self-archiving policy data for their new Plan S Journal Checker Tool….”
InstantILL is being rolled out at IUPUI. Here’s how it works.
“In March, we announced InstantILL, a new, powerfully simple library tool that delivers articles?—?no subscription needed. Since then, over 250 libraries, of all sizes have joined the waiting list to save money, improve services, and advance Open. Today, we’re debuting the first iteration with our partner, IUPUI University Library.
We’re excited to show you how it works, but, if you haven’t read our announcement, we suggest you take a few minutes to do that first and join the waiting list if you’d like to stay up to date and explore bringing InstantILL to your campus.
InstantILL is a next-generation interlibrary loan form that integrates with and complements systems that you already use to improve services, save money, and accelerate Open Access. InstantILL embeds into your website and turns your interlibrary loan form into one simple place where patrons can get legal access to any article through the library. InstantILL checks Open Access availability and uses your existing systems to check your subscriptions and submit ILL requests for an article….
If there is an Open Access copy, which can be 23% of the time, and the library doesn’t subscribe to the work, we’ll use the Open Access Button API to give immediate access alongside clear instructions on how it can and can’t be used, and the option to submit an ILL….”
New tool and dataset make permissions checking easier, faster, and clearer for libraries.
“Together with librarians, we’re building a new way to perform permissions checking that is backed by a modern approach and informed by a decade of experience and open, community-editable, machine-readable data. Today, we’re releasing a prototype of that system, a bulk automated permissions checker (and its data), which is specialized for use during mediated deposit and en masse outreach and built to check hundreds of articles and journals in seconds. It returns comprehensive permissions information, along with complete article metadata and links to open access versions. Try the tool today at: openaccessbutton.org/permissions. …”
How to support fellow scholars at UC – openaccessbutton
Lists steps for making work known to the OA Button, and easily available to those who don’t have access to paywalled content.
How to support fellow scholars at UC – openaccessbutton
Lists steps for making work known to the OA Button, and easily available to those who don’t have access to paywalled content.
New, powerfully simple library tool to deliver articles. No subscription needed.
“InstantILL is one box that instantly delivers papers your patrons need and simplifies your ILL process. It’s free and easily set up in minutes….
The Open Access Button is building a world where?—?regardless of a campus’ subscription access?—?there is a simple, community-owned, one-stop shop for students and researchers to get free, fast, and legal access to articles. We’re partnering with IUPUI to advance that mission through InstantILL, a new service that builds on ILL’s ability to give patrons rapid, easy access to any article, at any time, and at no cost. InstantILL will enable your campus to improve article delivery with or without a subscription and save money, and in turn, create a stronger negotiating position with publishers in reducing subscription costs….
InstantILL is a free, community-owned, and open source tool, and you’ll be able to get up and running in a matter of minutes. You can skip learning to code or a new ILL system, booting up a server, or tweaking logo placement. InstantILL just works with your current systems and brand….”
Announcing Direct2AAM: Helping Authors Find Author Accepted Manuscripts
“To make it easier for authors to self-archive simply, quickly, and correctly, we’ve created Direct2AAM, a set of guides to turn the often unsuccessful hunt for author accepted manuscripts (AAM) into a simple set of instructions that’ll always bring results. The guides, available for most major journals, provide easy to follow instructions for authors to obtain an Author Accepted Manuscript from their journal submission system, where the AAM is stored during the publishing process….”
Direct2AAM: Helping Authors Find Author Accepted Manuscripts
“To make it easier for authors to self-archive simply, quickly, and correctly, we’ve created Direct2AAM, a set of guides to turn the often unsuccessful hunt for author accepted manuscripts (AAM) into a simple set of instructions that’ll always bring results. The guides, available for most major journals, provide easy to follow instructions for authors to obtain an Author Accepted Manuscript from their journal submission system, where the AAM is stored during the publishing process….”
Alternative routes to scholarly articles and research outputs
“Many scholarly and peer-reviewed articles can be read open access today on the web. A number of free services and archives have developed tools and services helping users to discover research output in an easy and simple way: through installing a browser extension or plug-in; by using academic search engines and archives, or, by contacting the author directly. In the following text, we list a selection of services and ways to find scientific articles. The choice is yours….”
[for contributions] Direct2AAM Guides V0.1 [ Updated Oct 8th ] [ For release ] – Google Docs
Details on how to contribute to the Open Access Button doc of instructions on how authors can fetch the accepted author manuscript of one of their articles from the publisher’s journal-submission system.
Direct2AAM Guides V0.1
“To make it easier for authors to self-archive simply, quickly, and correctly we’ve produced guides to turn the too often unsuccessful hunt for Author Accepted Manuscripts into a simple set of instructions that should always bring results….
The guides, available for most major journals, provide simple to follow instructions for authors to obtain an Author Accepted Manuscript from their Journal Submission System, where the AAM is stored during the publishing process….”
Open Access Button self-archiving guides – feedback wanted
“The Open Access Button creates library-aligned tools and resources that make it easier to do research without subscriptions. During our day to day work, we have noticed that authors struggle with finding the right copy of their research to archive, and we know from collaborations with the repository community that we are not alone. We decided to create guides that are specifically designed to help researchers understand how to properly self-archive. The guides are a resource for the community, and we encourage all to share and reuse them.
The first guide contains visual examples to help authors identify how preprint, postprints and versions of record look, how to find each version and check if that version can be legally shared online. You can view it and contribute online at openaccessbutton.org/versions-explained . The second set of guides, available for most major journals, provide simple to follow instructions for authors to obtain an Author Accepted Manuscript from their Journal Submission System, where the AAM is stored during the publishing process. These guides are soon to be launched, if you are interested in giving feedback, let me know to share the final release copy of the document with you.
Our current next steps for the guides include refining their content, moving it to stand-alone pages, adding images, supporting data on which journals use which submission systems and A/B testing success with the guides. We’ll also be integrating them into our deposit pages, which already provide a route for authors to deposit and archive content legally without meta-data entry or policy checking.
The guides are possible thanks to the feedback and contributions from librarians and members of the community who have taken the time to chat with us and share their experiences. If you are a institutional repository librarian, if you work closely with authors, or if you have ever asked for content in behalf of authors we’d love to hear and learn from you. If you are interested in learning more about our efforts and find ways to collaborate, reply to this email or email me at ….”