To derive the full benefit of the
Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act, it is now extremely important that all universities and research institutions implement the faciltated
copy-request Button in their institutional repositories. (The repository software as well as the Button are free for all.)
The Button ensures that even during a publisher embargo on Open Access (OA) any researcher worldwide can immediately request and any author can immediately provide a single copy of any embargoed deposit for research purposes with just one extra click each just as long as the authors final, peer-reviewed draft has been deposited in the repository immediately upon acceptance for publication, rather than only after a publisher OA embargo period has elapsed.
This is not OA. It is only Almost-OA. But the copy-request Button ensures that the immediate-deposit does not lie fallow during any allowable OA embargo period. And thats what research and researchers need most.
For DSpace Repositories:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy
For EPrints Repositories :
http://wiki.eprints.org/w/RequestEprint
Sale, A., Couture, M., Rodrigues, E., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2014)
Open Access Mandates and the "Fair Dealing" Button. In: Coombe, RJ Wershler, D & Zellinger, M (Eds)
Dynamic Fair Dealing. U Toronto Press