Joseph McArthur, 29/08/2017 18:52:
> Federico, this sounds amazing!
Thanks.
>
> I want to offer the help of the Open Access Button request system here: [...]
>
> 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!
Sure. In fact I reused some of your learnings, so you already
contributed to my campaign.
https://github.com/OAButton/discussion/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=commenter%3Anemobis%20
Oh grand, I'll take a peak at those issues in the coming days and see if there is anything else useful I could add.
From https://github.com/OAButton/discussion/issues/587 I got the
impression you wouldn't be able to sustain my requests for 224k DOIs at
once, so I figured I'd try to add some additional capacity with WMIT
resources at least for this initial test of mine. In the short term
(September), if some of you have spare cycles, I could use your help in
drafting the next emails and replying to support requests.
From issues it sounded like you were doing a few thousand emails to authors, which we could manage with a bit of co-ordination (technically, you could do it via the API without consulting but it would be quite innefficient for us) e.g let us know what you want requested in a spreadsheet, and then we'll get it up the same day and have messages sent. If you simply wanted to run 224k DOI's to see if they were available, that's a pretty light lift, so I wouldn't worry about that (just hit the API when you fancy).
We might have some spare time, shall we try and have a 30 minute chat by phone (or similar) and try to hammer something out? If that makes sense see if there a time that works for you here:
doodle.com/joemcarthur.
In the long term, if we want something stable as suggested by Dario (or
indeed John
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/accelerating-open-access-adoption-john-dove>),
I agree we should go through some permanent help desk like the OAbutton,
ideally with some resources/support from SPARC, JISC, OpenAIRE or
whoever is interested in directly supporting green OA beyond specific
borders.
All the more reason to chat :)
Nemo
P.s: I've removed from Cc some addresses which I believe are already in
the list, to avoid making these messages always go into moderation.
Thanks!