On 2013-10-17, at 10:18 PM, dtpalmer <dtpal...@hku.hk> wrote: > Our button is called “Contact the Author(s)?” Function is similar. > It appears when we have the email address of one of the authors > and when no fulltext object is attached.
That's infinitesimally better than nothing -- but not depositing the full-text is no better than nothing. Half the purpose of the Button is to make it possible to mandate immediate full-text deposit, whether or not the deposit is embargoed. (The other half is is to provide Button-mediated eprints to requestors with just one extra click by the author during any embargo.) To see that the "Contact Author" is not much better than nothing, note that even publishers are providing live links to authors' email addresses on the publisher site of the article (where the full-text is accessible only to subscribers). Requestors still have to go to the trouble of writing out a message requesting a reprint, and authors have to find the eprint, reply and attach. We all know eprints can be requested and sent by email. All you need to know is the email address of the author. A "Contact" Button saves the trouble of looking it up, but not much else. The eprint-request Button (when full-text is deposited) reduces it all to just one paste-and-click for the requestor and one click for the author. If the author's institution does no more than provide a Contact Button, it's not doing anywhere near the amount of access-facilitation it could be doing if it were implemented properly: i.e., as an eprint-request Button paired with an immediate-deposit mandate (full-text). > We run DSpace 1.8.2 with DSpace-CRIS Add-on. HKU libraries has a sub-institutional immediate-deposit mandate since 19 Feb 2010. http://roarmap.eprints.org/277/ Is the University doing anything to ensure that HKU authors comply? "Each Libraries member... agree[s] to request permission from intended publishers… to archive the published version, or the author's manuscript in The HKU Scholars Hub… [but] regardless of the outcome [the member will] make available an electronic copy of his or her final version of the article (i.e., the "author's manuscript" or "postprint"), at no charge, to the Librarian's designate in appropriate formats (such as PDF) specified by the Librarian's Office. The Librarian's Office will make the scholarly article available to the public in an open-access repository, the HKU Scholars Hub, or its successor." Best wishes, Stevan Harnad > David T Palmer > Associate University Librarian & Digital Strategist > The University of Hong Kong Libraries > 10/F Kennedy Town Centre > 23 Belcher’s Street > Kennedy Town > Hong Kong SAR > Tel. +852 3921 2921 > http://hub.hku.hk/rp/rp00001 > <image005.gif> http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5616-4635 > > > > From: Eloy Rodrigues [mailto:e...@sdum.uminho.pt] > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 4:24 AM > Subject: Re: Request for information on repository request-copy Button > > Dear Stevan, > > I completely support the request to have the “Request Copy” functionality > embedded in the “vanilla” DSpace versions. We’ve been upgrading the Request > Copy Add-on (for the jsp interface, that it’s the one we are using) since we > first developed it. > > We are currently upgrading the Add-on for DSpace 3.2 (we are upgrading our > repository to DSpace 3.2), and the “production” version of the Add-on is for > DSpace 1.8xx repositories. > > We are obviously willing to contribute the Addon code to be included in the > DSpace core, and strongly support that integration. > > Best, > > > <image006.jpg> > Serviços de Documentação > Eloy Rodrigues > Direcção > Campus de Gualtar, 4710 - 057 Braga - Portugal > Telefone +351 253 604 156/7/8; Fax +351 253 604 159 > Campus de Azurém, 4800 058 Guimarães > Telefone +351 253 510 168; Fax +351 253 510 117 > http://www.sdum.uminho.pt | Siga-nos <image007.gif><image008.gif> > > > > > > > > <image009.jpg> > > De: Stevan Harnad [mailto:har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk] > Enviada: quinta-feira, 17 de Outubro de 2013 15:34 > Para: Eloy Rodrigues; Bram Luyten; Carol Minton Morris > Cc: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net; eprints-t...@ecs.soton.ac.uk List; > jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk; Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) > Assunto: Re: Request for information on repository request-copy Button > > Dear Eloy, Bram & Carol, > > As Eloy was the first to adopt the Button for DSpace, could you or Bram (or > anyone else) please help with this? > > It apparently needs an upgrade, and it's especially important to provide and > embed it in DSpace core at this crucial time in the evolution of OA policy > worldwide. > > The Button is an essential component in an effective OA mandate. > > http://dspace.2283337.n4.nabble.com/Re-Use-of-e-print-request-button-td4665355.html > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy > > Many thanks for any help or information you can provide, > > Stevan > > Begin forwarded message: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hutchinson, Alvin" <hutchins...@si.edu> > To: <hbosc-tcher...@orange.fr> > Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 3:28 PM > Subject: Request for information on repository request-copy Button > > I received a message stating that you are interested in the use of Request > Copy button in repositories. > > We at the Smithsonian Libraries use DSpace and have employed the Request Copy > button for several years. > > However, it is becoming problematic as the plugin does not seem to have any > active development or upgrades. > > I'm not sure how familiar you are with DSpace but for several versions, there > has been an XML user interface as well as the original JSP (java server > pages) interface. > > > The Request Copy plugin only works with *.jsp and that is very limiting. > > We would like to upgrade to the current version but will have to give up the > functionality which many of our users like to have. > > > Please take a minute to tell me something about your interest and your work. > > Best, > > > Alvin Hutchinson > Smithsonian Libraries >
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