Hi all,

Federico, this sounds amazing!

I want to offer the help of the Open Access Button request system here: https://openaccessbutton.org/api.

We have an endpoint for requesting content similarly to how you've done here. It handles the process of requesting from:

* checking if content is already available

* finding author contact info (even if it's not available, and getting up to date info if whats on the page is wrong)

* moderating requests in < 4 hours (with help from the community)

* sending the request to the author

* providing authors with info from Sherpa Romeo in an easy to interpret way. That's backed up by a help desk to help with confusion and all the edge cases that appear

* facilitating very easy deposit & passing content over the Zenodo

* (soon) moderating content as it comes in to make sure it's legal

This is all shown publically on request pages (where people can "support" a request to be notified on its progress), and works on any article (no doi required, although it's always nice to have). We've handled quite a few requests thus far: https://openaccessbutton.org/request although we have a lot of work that's close to shipping that we're hoping will rapidly increase our ability to scale. One thing that's been quite hard for us so far has been "bulk" requesting, like you've done here, but we've now got a workflow for that too which makes it easy (alongside A/B testing).

We've been working on this for over a year now, and importantly are pretty far down the path of getting this to a point where it's sustainable in the long term.

I'd love to work with you to figure out how we can help here, as it would be a shame for us to duplicate this!

Again, congrats this looks awesome.

Joe

On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 at 16:46 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Dario Taraborelli, 29/08/2017 18:16:
> I am wondering if this could be partly automated to make it scale
> (detect the citation of a new DOI > extract the author contact email >
> check if a preprint is available > if not, trigger an email to the author).

It's not especially hard to automate, the question is what to put in the
From and Reply-To fields. :) The sender needs to be of interest for the
author and somebody knowledgeable needs to be available to answer
questions. I can do some super-work and handle a few hundreds support
requests from authors for a few weeks but I can't promise to be
available forever to do this. ;)

> In the future, a social media bot will simultaneously (publicly) notify
> the author, if the handle can identified and is reliably stored in Wikidata.

We could do this already via ORCID but not that many authors have usable
profiles there.

Nemo