The OA Self-Archiving Sweepstakes: One More University and One More Funder Mandate

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:38:04 +0000

One more Australian university Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate (CSU,
Australia's 6th mandate: thanks to Arthur Sale for the news) and one
Italian funder mandate (ISS, Italy's first: thanks to Valentina Comba
via Peter Suber) have been announced. (Also a "strong encouragement"
policy from Hokkaido University brings us closer to a first Japanese
mandate.)

Worldwide, that now makes:

    22 funder mandates,
    12 institutional mandates,
    3 departmental mandates,

plus

    5 proposed funder mandates,
    1 proposed institutional mandate,
    2 proposed multi-institutional mandates

That's a total of

    37 mandates already adopted and
    8 more proposed so far
    = 45

(plus at least 31 registered self-archiving institutional and funder
"OA policies" -- still shy of a mandate, but within easy distance of an
upgrade -- and probably many more unregistered ones).

    = at least 76 known to be adopted, proposed, or poised

See ROARMAP: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

If you have an unregistered policy, please register it in ROARMAP:
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php

(Arthur Sale whispers that we should expect more announcements soon,
from Australia.)

The Self-Archiving Sweepstakes are on -- and let us hope for a planetary
sweep in 2008, particularly from the sleeping giant: the university
sector. (The world deserves at least a bit of good news for a change!)

Stevan Harnad
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h
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UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS:
If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access
to your own research article output, please describe your policy at:
    http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html

OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
    BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
    http://romeo.eprints.org/
OR
    BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when
    a suitable one exists.
    http://www.doaj.org/
AND
    in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
    in your own institutional repository.
    http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
    http://archives.eprints.org/
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/
Received on Thu Jan 24 2008 - 04:45:58 GMT

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