From: Tracy Gardner <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 20:07:59 +0000 Lisa, Simon Inger and I are in the final stages of completing a piece of research that may go some way to answering your question. Our (open access) report “How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications” will be available at the end of March. Our survey attracted over 40,000 respondents globally and one of the questions we asked was regarding which resource the reader accessed their article from – publisher site, aggregation, subject repository, institutional repository, social networking site, or directly from the author. We will announce publication of the report on this list, but feel free to follow us on Twitter at @siox14 or check our website for announcements. Regards, Tracy Tracy Gardner Consultant Simon Inger Consulting www.simoningerconsulting.com [log in to unmask] -----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