The ROARMAP Registry of University and Funder Self-Archiving Mandates keeps growing: 56 policies, 20 adopted mandates, and 5 proposed mandates so far, worldwide. But the latest mandate proposal from EURAB is the best of them all: So good that I don't have a single recommendation for improving it! It has all the essential ingredients:
Deposit of peer-reviewed postprint is required
Deposit required immediately upon acceptance for publication (no exceptions, no delays)
Deposit in Institutional or Central Repository
Set access to deposit as Open Access as soon as possible, within 6 months at the latest.
That's it. It's not possible to design a better policy, or one that is surer to get the entire international research community to 100% OA more reliably, quickly or effectively....Please emulate it at your university, research institution or funding agency and we'll reach the optimal and inevitable at long last....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/16/2007 08:23:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
