<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">It is splendid that RSP/RIN are having a <a href="http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/index.php?page=MandatesDay2009/index.php">meeting</a> 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.</span></div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>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 <a href="http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/">institutional (8) and funder (14)</a> -- 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.</div><div><br></div><div>The world's universities and research institutions are the "<a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/522-guid.html">slumbering giant</a>" of OA and OA mandates. They are the providers of <i>all</i> 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!)</div><div><br></div><div>A word to the wise,</div><div><br></div><div>Your weary archivangelist</div><div><br><div><div>On 16-Apr-09, at 9:58 AM, Dominic Tate wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>* Apologies for cross posting* <br><br>Friday 29 May 2009, Royal Institute of British Architects, London<br><br>The Repositories Support Project (RSP) and the Research Information<br>Network (RIN) are holding this free event to look at how researchers are<br>responding to mandates to include the results of their research work in<br>repositories. It will cover the issues around both research funders' and<br>institutional mandates at institutional, subject-based and national<br>levels and ask how these mandates are working in practice.<br><br>Key speakers include:<br><br>* Paul Ayris, Director, Library Services, University College London<br>* Paul Davey, Engagement Manager, UKPubMed Central<br>* Bill Hubbard, Manager, SHERPA, University of Nottingham<br>* Paul Hubbard, Head of Research Policy, HEFCE<br>* Charles Oppenheim, Head of Department and Professor of Information<br>Science at Loughborough University<br><br>The meeting will be an opportunity to investigate the way that mandates<br>are working, what policies and processes can improve this, how mandates<br>can become embedded within the research cycle, and reflect on their<br>current and future impact.<br><br>The event is aimed at institutional managers, senior librarians,<br>research funders, repository managers, publishers, learned societies and<br>academic researchers.<br>Places are free but limited, so please book early, register at:<br><br><a href="http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/index.php?page=MandatesDay2009/index.php">http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/index.php?page=MandatesDay2009/index.php</a>. <br><br>For general enquiries contact the RSP, email <a href="mailto:support@rsp.ac.uk">support@rsp.ac.uk</a> or tel<br>0845 257 6860.<br><br><br>Dominic Tate<br><br>SHERPA Repository Development Officer<br><br>Greenfield Medical Library<br>Queen's Medical Centre<br>Nottingham<br>NG7 2UH<br><br><a href="mailto:dominic.tate@nottingham.ac.uk">dominic.tate@nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>Phone: 0115 84 67544<br>Mobile: 07825 753 982<br>Fax: 0115 846 8244<br><a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk">http://www.sherpa.ac.uk</a> <br><br>Keep up to date with the latest RSP events at<br><a href="http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/">http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/</a><br><br><br>This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment<br>may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system:<br>you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the<br>University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>