UTas ePrintsThe acquisition of open access research articlesAHJSaleauthorThe behavior of researchers when self-archiving in an institutional repository has not been previously analyzed. This paper uses available information for three repositories analyzing when researchers (as authors) deposit their research articles. The three repositories have variants of a mandatory deposit policy. It is shown that it takes several years for a mandatory policy to be institutionalized and routinized, but that once it has been the deposit of articles takes place in a remarkably short time after publication, or in some cases even before. Authors overwhelmingly deposit well before six months after publication date. The OA mantra of 'deposit now, set open access when feasible' is shown to be not only reasonable, but fitting what researchers actually do.280103 Information Storage, Retrieval and Management2006-10University of IllinoisArticle

Permissions, Copyright and Authorship Statement
I grant the University of Tasmania permission to copy, store and communicate this work I declare that I either own the copyright in the work or I am submitting this work with permission of the copyright owner or under licence from the copyright owner. I declare that the metadata regarding authorship are true and correct and that it complies with the authorship requirements set down in the Joint NHMRC/AVCC Guidelines on Research and Practice.

Clicking on the deposit button indicates your agreement to these terms.