Compliance Monitoring (By Richard Jones) | Jisc Monitor

" ... Open Access compliance checking is currently a task carried out by humans, and there is no one single place to look for the relevant information. This means that it is time consuming, and a prime candidate for total or partial automation. Being able to quickly and easily check compliance of an article or a set of articles will be of benefit to both institutions and funders. Aspects of an article which may be considered (depending on policy) include: What is the licence a work has been published under? What embargo is the work subject to? Does the article include the funder acknowledgement? Is the article archived in a suitable repository? Does the article include an acknowledgement of the research materials? Is the article free-to-read (i.e. accessible without login/payment, irrespective of the re-use licence)? ..."