Why tag for OATP

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If you tag for OATP, you'll help the larger effort to keep people informed about OA and support research into OA. When you tag OA-related developments, you push the news to the thousands of OATP subscribers and store the records in the OATP database for deduping, export, preservation, updating, and search.

What sorts of things does OATP want to tag? Articles, announcements, project home pages, blog posts, studies, surveys, reports, books, dissertations, datasets. If it's about OA (and if it's online with a unique URL), then we want to tag it, new or old, in any language, from any country, on any aspect of OA.

OATP welcomes taggers of all kinds.

• Some taggers are generalists, and tag anything OA-related. Some are specialists, and focus on a given niche (even if they also tag outside that niche). For example, they may focus on OA in a given academic field, country, region, language, or subtopic.

• Some tag regularly, some sporadically.

• Some tag both new and old developments, and some emphasize one or the other.

• Some tag only what they happen to notice, and some search systematically for new (or new and old) developments, at least in a given niche.

The more taggers we have, in more niches, the more comprehensively OATP will keep people informed and support research into OA.

We hope you'll give it a try.