[Dspace-general] Request Copy feature in DSpace

[Stevan Harnad]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Murari wrote:

> We use DSpace software and the feature that you
> indicated in point 4 (request eprint) does not exist on this.

Dear Murari,

Thanks to Eloy Rodrigues at Minho University in Portugal, the EMAIL EPRINTS
REQUEST feature *does* exist for DSpace:

    New Request Copy feature in DSpace
    http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php//RequestCopy
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5297.html
    
See also:

    Two Happy Accidents Demonstrate Power of "Eprint Request" Button
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/167-guid.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stevan Harnad 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 4:24 PM
> To: Murari
> 
> Dear Murari,
> 
> If I may, I would suggest that (1) IISc concentrate on its current and
> forward-going
> research output first, (2) that it adopt the ID/OA policy
> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
> of requiring immediate, *permanent*, deposit of the full-text of the
> author's final,
> peer-reviewed, accepted draft ("postprint" -- not the publisher's PDF)
> and (3) set access as Closed Access (CA) unless the journal is one of the
> 69% of
> journals that have already agreed to setting access immediately as OA,  and
> (4) use the EPrints software's REQUEST EPRINT feature to tide over
> individual
> user needs during any provisional CA period
> http://www.eprints.org/news/features/request_button.php
> 
> Explain to IIsc researchers what OA is, what it is for, why the postprint,
> not
> the PDF, is the default option, and why the access should be permanent.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Stevan Harnad