[BOAI] Re: Research in the open: How mandates work in practice

[Stevan Harnad]

> It is splendid that RSP/RIN are having a meeting on how funders' and  
> institutional Green Open Access Self-Archiving Mandates are working  
> in practice -- and I note that one of the speakers represents  
> UKPubMed Central, so we will indeed hear about at least one funder  
> mandate and one central repository.
>
> But would it not be a good idea to hear from the UK's institutions,  
> about institutional (and departmental) OA mandates? The UK was the  
> first country in the world to adopt OA mandates, and it has the  
> largest number (both absolute and relative) of such mandate  
> adoptions -- both institutional (8) and funder (14) -- in the world.  
> But none of the 8 mandating institutions/departments so far seems to  
> be represented among the Key speakers on how mandates are working.
>
> The world's universities and research institutions are the  
> "slumbering giant" of OA and OA mandates. They are the providers of  
> all of OA's target content: both funded and unfunded, across all  
> disciplines. Surely we should pay closest attention to those who  
> have successfully awakened the slumbering giant (locally) if we are  
> to draw useful conclusions on how OA mandates work in practice --  
> and how to propagate that "best practice" globally. (Of the world's  
> 76 OA mandates, 54 are outside the UK: although we are clearly in  
> the lead, there may still be some extraterritorial lessons to be  
> learned too!)
>
> A word to the wise,
>
> Your weary archivangelist
>
> On 16-Apr-09, at 9:58 AM, Dominic Tate wrote:
>
>>
>> * Apologies for cross posting*
>>
>> Friday 29 May 2009, Royal Institute of British Architects, London
>>
>> The Repositories Support Project (RSP) and the Research Information
>> Network (RIN) are holding this free event to look at how  
>> researchers are
>> responding to mandates to include the results of their research  
>> work in
>> repositories. It will cover the issues around both research  
>> funders' and
>> institutional mandates at institutional, subject-based and national
>> levels and ask how these mandates are working in practice.
>>
>> Key speakers include:
>>
>> * Paul Ayris, Director, Library Services, University College London
>> * Paul Davey, Engagement Manager, UKPubMed Central
>> * Bill Hubbard, Manager, SHERPA, University of Nottingham
>> * Paul Hubbard, Head of Research Policy, HEFCE
>> * Charles Oppenheim, Head of Department and Professor of Information
>> Science at Loughborough University
>>
>> The meeting will be an opportunity to investigate the way that  
>> mandates
>> are working, what policies and processes can improve this, how  
>> mandates
>> can become embedded within the research cycle, and reflect on their
>> current and future impact.
>>
>> The event is aimed at institutional managers, senior librarians,
>> research funders, repository managers, publishers, learned  
>> societies and
>> academic researchers.
>> Places are free but limited, so please book early, register at:
>>
>> http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/index.php?page=MandatesDay2009/index.php.
>>
>> For general enquiries contact the RSP, email support at rsp.ac.uk or tel
>> 0845 257 6860.
>>
>>
>> Dominic Tate
>>
>> SHERPA Repository Development Officer
>>
>> Greenfield Medical Library
>> Queen's Medical Centre
>> Nottingham
>> NG7 2UH
>>
>> dominic.tate at nottingham.ac.uk
>> Phone: 0115 84 67544
>> Mobile: 07825 753 982
>> Fax: 0115 846 8244
>> http://www.sherpa.ac.uk
>>
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>> http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/
>>
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