According to the KEI staff, "Under US FOIA laws, if an agency receives three requests for the same documents, they are required to put the data on their own web page."
Comment. It's a very enlightened rule. I've long urged an equivalent rule for scholars, and this is a good opportunity to urge it again. If you receive even one request for an email copy of one of your articles, then self-archive the article. It takes about as much time as sending the article as an attachment to your requesting colleague. It will save you time responding to future requests, and spare other readers the need to request their own copies. Of course routine self-archiving is even better. But if you forget, regard every query as a reminder.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/24/2009 11:56:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
