On 2012-06-20, at 12:14 PM, Thomas Krichel wrote: > Can you give us an example of an institution with a mandate that has > managed, for a period of a year, for example, to collect its > complete research output in its IR?
U. Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science (the oldest Green OA mandate). (Not U. Southampton, which has a sub-optimal mandate.) And CERN. And Liège (with its optimal ID/OA mandate) is now coming close; and so soon will its emulators. But even the 60%-70% mandates are not to be sneezed at, in a world where the global baseline Green OA is at 20%, because most institutions still have no mandate at all. The UK Green OA baseline (almost 40%) is twice the global baseline, almost certainly because all of RCUK research funding councils and a relatively high proportion of UK's universities (though still fewer than half) have adopted Green OA mandates (though mostly sub-optimal ones). This is the UK lead in OA that the Finch Report now proposes to squander, in favour of a very long and very expensive gold rush. And the best way to accelerate the %OA and effectiveness of existing Green OA mandates (apart from optimizing the sub-optimal ones) is for more and more of them to be adopted. OA is its own best reward and motivator, and more will generate still more. L'appétit vient en mangeant... Stevan Harnad _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
