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Die kürzlich u.a. hier vermeldete Entscheidung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), ausgehend von ihrer Unterzeichnung der Berliner Deklaration, ab nun in ihre Förderkriterien endgültig die Nutzung wie Umsetzung von Open Access-Regeln einzubetten, wird von Stevan Harnad in seinem Beitrag Optimizing Open Access Guidelines of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft zwar begrüßt, aber einige kritische Anmerkungen, was hier noch zu optimieren wäre, gibt es denn doch.
 

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Allowing any Restricted Access interval at all is the weaker form of OA mandate, but it is still sufficient. It is critically important, however, that:

(a) Depositing the full text is required, not just requested

(b) The depositing itself must always be done immediately upon acceptance for publication, not after the access-delay interval agreed with the publisher

(c) During any agreed access-delay interval (one year maximum) access to the full-text can be set as Restricted Access rather than Open Access

I would also recommend against permitting a delay as long as one year: NIH is now moving from a year to 4 months; Wellcome allows 6 months but is planning to reduce that. There is no need for DFG to be more permissive of access restriction.