University of Reading <http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/staffportal/news/articles/spsn-597814.aspx> has just upgraded its OA Mandate <http://roarmap.eprints.org/584/> to make it compliant with HEFCE Requirements for eligibility for REF2020 <http://roarmap.eprints.org/834/> (papers must be *deposited* immediately upon acceptance for publication -- access to deposit must be made open immediately or, at the latest, by the end of the permissible embargo).
If your institution has adopted (or upgraded) and OA policy, please register it in ROARMAP <http://roarmap.eprints.org> to inspire other institutions to adopt and register their OA policies. ROARMAP is also conducting studies, with the help of the data from the new ROAR <http://roar.eprints.org> database (coming soon) to monitor and record the effectiveness of OA policies in terms of their *deposit rate* (percentage of annual published output that is deposited) and *deposit latency *(when the papers are deposited, relative to publication date). OA Policies differ in their requirements. It is hoped that the comparative data will help institutions that already have an OA policy to monitor and compare its effectiveness with other policy models and will help institutions planning to adopt and OA policy to pick the most effective model. Stevan Harnad
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