2009/2/6 Bernard Rentier <[email protected]>: > I believe we are getting carried away here. > My point was much simpler... > > 1. Universities may legitimately own a repository of all the publications by > their employees, no matter what their statutes can be, they may also impose > a mandate and simply enforce it by making it conditional for futher in-house > funding, advancement, promotions, etc.
This isn't true for Germany, see http://archiv.twoday.net/search?q=mandat Legal mainstream in Germany says that the freedom of research forbidds mandating on university level. Klaus Graf
