From: "Pikas, Christina K." <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 12:17:58 +0000 Googling: reprint request response rate (thanks to Neil Saunders who replied to my tweet to suggest this variation on my search) does work. Looks like most are saying 75-80% response rate. I thought I remember one that was much lower and there were some status things like senior researchers an those in North America were more likely to get responses, but I don’t see that now. That may have been for data. Christina -----Original Message----- From: "Hinchliffe, Lisa W" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 00:50:13 +0000 Stevan Harnad mentions the option to implement Copy-Request Button <http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268511/> being implemented in institutional eprint repositories. ResearchGate et al also enable requesting from authors. Has anyone conducted any formal or informal studies of response rate to such requests? I know that as an author, I reply but usually not for a few days since requests come in at all hours, while I¹m traveling, etc. and I don¹t always have ecopies of things I published years ago (in print). I go find ecopies or scan but that isn¹t instantaneous. And, myself I¹ve tracked down scholars to try and contact them only to find they have left academia, retired, or on case passed away. And, when I do write - response rate isn¹t 100% by any means. Thanks for any pointers! Lisa --Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Professor/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and InstructionUniversity Library 434, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 <mailto:[log in to unmask]>, 217-333-1323, [log in to unmask] Candidate for ALA President, 2017-2018 http://lisa4ala.org <http://lisa4ala.org/>, https://www.facebook.com/lisa4ala, http://twitter.com/lisa4alaprez