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
Keep up to date with the latest RSP events at
http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/
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