The FWF (Austrian Science Fund) has been joined UKPMC in April 2010 and reached 
in November 2011 a  compliance rate of around 65%. One major reason seems to be 
that we are able to pay publication costs three years after the project is 
finished, see: http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/projects/peer-reviewed_publications.html



Am 19.05.2012 um 18:09 schrieb "Richard Poynder" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>:


Why is the NIH proving more successful in achieving compliance with its open 
access policy than the Wellcome Trust (which currently has a compliance rate of 
55%).



- The initial NIH voluntary policy saw compliance rates of 19%.

-The mandatory policy (introduced in April 2008) saw compliance grow to 49% by 
the end of 2008, 70% by the end of 2009 and currently stands at 75%.

-In order to increase compliance the NIH has a) engaged in awareness programs; 
b) improved its ability to track papers resulting from NIH research awards; c) 
developed new systems to assist sponsored research offices at universities and 
medical research centres in tracking their compliance; d) improved the 
submission process for authors by i) co-opting publishers to deposit for 
authors and ii) introducing the NIH Manuscript Submission 
System<http://www.nihms.nih.gov/>.



One noteworthy point is that, while the NIH clearly takes a close interest in 
compliance levels, it does not collect statistics on enforcement actions. With 
the growth in compliance now apparently levelling off at NIH, this would surely 
be useful information — and not just for NIH itself, but also for other funders 
like the Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK  
(RCUK<http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/Pages/Home.aspx>), both of whom are currently 
looking to beef 
up<http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_7297/new-stronger-uk-research-councils-policy-on-open-access>
 their open access policies.



http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/open-access-mandates-ensuring.html



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