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<div>With the ID/OA mandate, <a href="https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&q=harnad%20OR%20Harnad%20OR%20archivangelism+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&ie=UTF-8&tbm=blg&tbs=qdr:m&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active#c2coff=1&hl=en&lr=&q=%22immediate+deposit%22+blogurl:http%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&safe=active&tbm=blg">
immediate-deposi</a>t is mandatory, but access-setting (immediate OA or embargo, with the copy-request Button) is up to the author.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left; ">In other words, a policy that actually makes deposit mandatory is a mandate. No argument here. But it appears that many of the institutional policies listed on the ROARMAP site—all of which are presented on that site as "mandates"—actually
require no deposit at all. A few examples would be those of MIT ("<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; ">The Provost or Provost's designate will waive application of the policy for a particular article upon
written notification by the author"), </span>the University of Oregon library ("<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; ">The Dean of the Libraries will waive application of the policy for a particular article
upon written notification by the author")</span>, and the University of Glasgow ("<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; ">Staff are asked to deposit a copy of peer-reviewed, published journal articles and conference proceedings
into Enlighten, where copyright allows, as soon as possible after publication.") To be clear, these are not offers of indefinite embargo upon request following mandatory deposit—they are policies that require no deposit.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; ">So my question remains: why the insistence on calling such policies "mandates"? If they make no action mandatory, then why not simply call them policies? (ROARAP is a less snappy acronym, I'll grant you.)</div>
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