Re: Why Cornell's Institutional Repository Is Near-Empty

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:01:56 +0000

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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:04:14 EDT
From: Michael Carroll <Carroll_at_law.villanova.edu>
To: liblicense-l_at_lists.yale.edu

Two suggestions:

(1) A reminder that the "Patchwork Mandate" is a reasonable,
incremental response for open access advocates at a sprawling
institution like Cornell.

See http://eprints.utas.edu.au/410/; see also
http://carrollogos.blogspot.com/2006/11/open-access-and-incremenatlism.html

(2) At least on American campuses, faculty are much more likely
to support a mandate if they vote to impose it upon themselves
rather than have it imposed by an administrator. Look for a
faculty champion who would be willing to take on this cause.

Best,

Michael W. Carroll
Associate Professor of Law
Villanova University School of Law
Villanova, PA 19085
blog: http://www.carrollogos.org/
Research papers: http://ssrn.com/author=330326
http://law.bepress.com/villanovalwps/
Received on Wed Mar 21 2007 - 03:13:06 GMT