Abstract
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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.