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Academic libraries have experimented with a variety of services to encourage article deposit to institutional repositories, with varying degrees of success. Universities themselves now face the challenge of meeting federal agency public access requirements. These requirements provide academic libraries with an opportunity to initiate value-added instructional and repository services that advance open access to the scholarly work of the faculty and students of their institutions. This article describes federal agency article deposit services implemented by Oregon State University Libraries and Press (OSULP) with the goal of increasing the rate of article deposit to the institutional repository while increasing public access to the research conducted by the university’s faculty and students.
Following the White House Office of Science Technology and Policy public access directive in 2013, Oregon State University Libraries and Press (OSULP) initiated an article deposit service to help faculty meet existing and emerging federal agency public access requirements. OSULP created a new article deposit interface that enables the third party deposit of articles to federal agency repositories such as PubMed Central (PMC) and PAGES. This case study describes the reasons OSULP initiated this service, the processes and people put in place to effectuate it, the impact of the service in terms of the number of articles funded by federal agencies deposited to the IR and to federal agency repositories, and plans for expanding the service to meet other agency requirements.