Klaus Graf has done a new review of the OA mandate at the University of Zurich. When he first reviewed its progress last year (March 2007), he found that the compliance rate was very low. In his new review, he finds that only 252 documents were deposited in ZORA, the UZ repository, during 2007, and only 25 so far in 2008. By contrast, the U of Freiburg repository added about 1,100 documents without a mandate. Read his new review in the original German or Google's English.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/08/2008 10:54:00 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.
