The folks at EPrints have revamped ROARMAP, the database of funder and university OA mandates. The front page now has a very useful tally of the worldwide OA mandates in six categories:
Departmental mandates (today = 4)
Institutional mandates (18)
Funder mandates (22)
Proposed institutional mandates (1)
Proposed multi-institutional mandates (2)
Proposed funder mandates (4)
It also has two world maps, one showing OA mandates by country and the other showing OA repositories by country.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/09/2008 12:49:00 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.
