It took ten years, but HAL has started implementing a part of it (https://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/en/2023/12/hal-s-new-service-deposit-suggestions-for-automatic-import-of-open-access-publications/ ). Unlike @pintoch (https://antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/retrospective-of-dissemin-and-thoughts-on-the-open-access-movement/ ), I consider this a success for Dissemin.

But we need more. Every repository should do it, but given the effort it's more realistically done by consortial, national or international bodies. Some parts of the service, like #OpenAlex / #Unpaywall and #InternetArchiveScholar, are so expensive we can probably afford just one to be shared by all global users.

@samwilson I don't mind the collections being inaccessible for a few weeks. After all, copyright forces us to keep most collections inaccessible for over a century anyway. I'm more worried about the stressed and stretched IA staff. Months spent on firefighting will eat on current projects and potentially cause long-term burnouts. Think #InternetArchiveScholar for example, an extremely powerful service for #OpenScience. As the grant money ended, we can't expect IA to subsidise it much.

@egonw

@MsPhelps @fionabradley As a quick indicator for specific journals I also use the percentage of bright archival from fatcat / #InternetArchiveScholar. https://fatcat.wiki/container/search?q=

It doesn't work everywhere but for the big publishers it's much better than trusting whatever they *say* is the status of a journal.

@hildabast Thank you! I'm not sure I understand why #InternetArchiveScholar was summarily dismissed as being too small. Nowadays I use it as my primary academic search engine, for two reasons: 1) it tends to have more #OpenAccess / full text links than anything else; 2) advanced search actually works and results are generally more consistent and reliable.

If I fail to find anything, I proceed to check #GoogleScholar, where typically I then have to browse dozens of pages of unrelated junk.