Brunel University's School of Information Systems Computing and
Mathematics has just adopted the 9th departmental/institutional
self-archiving mandate. (Together with the 6 research funder mandates,
that now makes 15 mandates worldwide, and the 8th for the UK.)
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
Brunel University School of Information Systems
Computing and Mathematics (UNITED KINGDOM mandate)
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/siscm
Institution's/Department's OA Eprint Archives:
http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/
Institution's/Department's OA Self-Archiving Policy:
BURA will make journal articles conference papers, doctoral theses,
recordings and images freely available via the internet, allowing
users to read, download and copy material for non-commercial private
study or research purposes. Brunel's School of Information Systems
Computing and Mathematics is supporting the initiative to make it
compulsory for researchers to deposit their journal articles and
theses in BURA. "[F]or academics it will make readily available
their research to the world. If it is successful, it could also lead
onto the whole university adopting mandatory self-archiving."
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/3/Press%20Releases/BURADec406FINAL.doc
This is an instance of Prof. Artur Sale's recommended "Patchwork Mandate"
-- departments first, then the university as a whole. Other examples are
Prof. Sale's own University of Tasmania's departmental and university
mandates and University of Southampton's ECS departmental mandate,
soon to become a university mandate.
Sale, Arthur (2006) The Patchwork Mandate. Working Paper. School of
Computing, Australia.
http://eprints.utas.edu.au/410/
If your own university or research institution has a self-archiving policy,
please register it in ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material
Archiving Policies):
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php
Stevan Harnad
Received on Wed Dec 06 2006 - 11:32:57 GMT