The Definitive Answer: Deposit All Final Drafts, Immediately Upon Acceptance for Publication

Under all circumstances, deposit the final, refereed, accepted draft of your journal article (postprint) in your Institutional Repository (IR), immediately upon acceptance for publication. There is no need whatsoever to make a single exception. Unless you are certain that you have reason not to, set access to that deposited draft as Open Access (OA) immediately upon deposit. (Otherwise, you can set access as Closed Access , for the duration of any publisher embargo you wish to honor.)