creators_name: Sale, AHJ
creators_id: Arthur.Sale@utas.edu.au
editors_name: Valauskas, Edward
type: article
datestamp: 2006-10-21
lastmod: 2008-07-18 09:43:01
metadata_visibility: show
title: The acquisition of open access research articles
ispublished: pub
subjects: 280103
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: NULL
keywords: open access, self-archgiving, deposit rates, Australia, Southampton, mandatory policy
note: ISSN 1396-0466
abstract: The 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.
date: 2006-10
date_type: published
publication: First Monday
volume: 11
number: 10
publisher: University of Illinois
institution: University of Tasmania
thesis_type: UNSPECIFIED
refereed: TRUE
official_url: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_10/sale/index.html
citation: Sale, AHJ (2006) The acquisition of open access research articles. First Monday, 11 (10).
document_url: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/388/1/FirstMondayOct06.pdf