Colin Steele contributed greatly to this result through relentless lobbying,
and this should be acknowledged.
Arthur Sale
> -----Original Message-----
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[mailto:AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-
> ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad
> Sent: Friday, 8 December 2006 12:44 PM
> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
> Subject: Re: [AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM] Australian mandates
> update
>
> On the good authority of Arthur Sale (and Peter Suber), the classification
> of the ARC policy in ROARMAP has been upgraded to a mandate.
>
> http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
>
> There are now 16 mandates worldwide, 4 of them in Australia: A
> departmental and university-wide one at U. Tasmania, a university-wide one
> at QUT, and a funder mandate at ARC, soon to be joined by another funder
> mandate (NHMRC) and reinforced by the RQF (the Australian counterpart
> of the RAE).
>
> Congratulations to Australia and the Archivangelist of the Antipodes,
> Arthur Sale (and also to Tom Cochrane, Paul Callan and Colin Steele)!
>
Received on Fri Dec 08 2006 - 12:32:18 GMT