<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px;">Cambridge University has provided a very <a href="https://www.openaccess.cam.ac.uk/changing">clear step-by-step statement</a> of how</div><div style="margin: 0px;">to comply with the new HEFCE/REF OA Policy, as well as the RCUK OA policy,</div><div style="margin: 0px;">and they are implementing it immediately:</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><i>"This policy comes into force on 1 April 2016. Yet at the University we want to </i></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><i>ensure this shift is managed sooner rather than later to ensure no research is </i></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><i>omitted.” </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">To derive the full benefit of the HEFCE/REF immediate-deposit policy it is</div><div style="margin: 0px;">important that all UK universities also implement the email copy-request Button:</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span style="color: #000000">For DSpace: <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy">https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span style="color: #000000">For EPrints: <a href="http://wiki.eprints.org/w/RequestEprint">http://wiki.eprints.org/w/RequestEprint</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">This ensures that researchers worldwide can immediately request (and authors can </div><div style="margin: 0px;">immediately provide, with one click each) a single copy of closed-access deposits </div><div style="margin: 0px;">for research purposes even during a publisher OA embargo period.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">What makes the HEFCE/REF OA policy so important and powerful is that it ensures </div><div style="margin: 0px;">that all final drafts are deposited immediately, rather than only after a publisher OA </div><div style="margin: 0px;">embargo period has elapsed.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">The Request-Copy Button in turn ensures that the immediate-deposit does not lie </div><div style="margin: 0px;">fallow for a year.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Sale, A., Couture, M., Rodrigues, E., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2014) </div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/">Open Access Mandates and the "Fair Dealing" Button</a></span><span style="color: #000000">. In: Coombe, RJ</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Wershhler, D & Zellinger, M (Eds) <a href="http://www.utppublishing.com/Dynamic-Fair-Dealing-Creating-Canadian-Culture-Online.html">Dynamic Fair Dealing</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Stevan Harnad</div></body></html>