Re: Australian mandates update

From: Arthur Sale <ahjs_at_ozemail.com.au>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:17:54 +1100

Colin Steele contributed greatly to this result through relentless lobbying,
and this should be acknowledged.

Arthur Sale

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> update
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> On the good authority of Arthur Sale (and Peter Suber), the classification
> of the ARC policy in ROARMAP has been upgraded to a mandate.
>
> http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
>
> There are now 16 mandates worldwide, 4 of them in Australia: A
> departmental and university-wide one at U. Tasmania, a university-wide one
> at QUT, and a funder mandate at ARC, soon to be joined by another funder
> mandate (NHMRC) and reinforced by the RQF (the Australian counterpart
> of the RAE).
>
> Congratulations to Australia and the Archivangelist of the Antipodes,
> Arthur Sale (and also to Tom Cochrane, Paul Callan and Colin Steele)!
>
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