One more Australian university Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate (CSU, Australia's 6th mandate: thanks to Arthur Sale for the news) and one Italian funder mandate (ISS, Italy's first: thanks to Valentina Comba via Peter Suber) have been announced. (Also a "strong encouragement" policy from Hokkaido University brings us closer to a first Japanese mandate.)
37 mandates already adopted and 8 more proposed so far = 45
(plus at least 31 registered self-archiving institutional and funder "OA policies" -- still shy of a mandate, encouraging/inviting/requesting instead of requiring/mandating, but within easy distance of an upgrade to a mandate -- and probably many more unregistered ones).
= at least 76 known to be adopted, proposed, or poised
If your institution or funder has an unregistered OA policy, please register it in ROARMAP.
(Arthur Sale whispers that we should expect more announcements soon, from Australia.)
The Self-Archiving Sweepstakes are on -- and let us hope for a planetary sweep in 2008, particularly from the sleeping giant: the university sector. (The world deserves at least a bit of good news for a change!)
PS: The lead story in next week's issue of SOAN will be the OA mandates adopted or revealed in January 2008.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/24/2008 01:52:00 PM.
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.
