Knowledge Ecology Notes points out a rule within the Freedom of Information Act that stipulates a document requested three times must be put up on its own web page. Their blog post comes as a result of requesting a U.S. Ambassador’s calendar. Peter Suber at Open Access News adds, in part, this commentary:
It’s a very enlightened rule. I’ve long urged an equivalent rule for scholars, and this is a good opportunity to urge it again. If you receive even one request for an email copy of one of your articles, then self-archive the article. It takes about as much time as sending the article as an attachment to your requesting colleague…
