K. Graf: The Request button is evil! and unlawful in Switzerland!

The "email eprint request" button makes it possible for authors who elect to deposit their papers in "Closed Access" rather than "Open Access" (because of a publisher's veto or embargo on OA) to provide "Almost OA" to their deposits during the embargo, by means of the button -- as long as they do deposit them. It also makes it possible for institutions and funders who have not managed to reach consensus on the adoption of a stronger OA mandate to adopt a weaker mandate -- IDOA -- that requires deposit of all refereed papers, immediately upon acceptance for publication, without exception (and without waivers). Those deposits that the author feels cannot be immediately made OA immediately for copyright reasons can be made Closed Access, and then the author can provide Almost-OA for the time being, via the button.