[Apologies for Multiple Posting]
These recommendations by the EUA Working Group on Open Access were
adopted unanimously by the Council of the European University
Association on January 25 2008.
Many thanks to Professor Bernard Rentier, Rector, University of Liege
and founder of
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Culhane, Mike wrote:
At my organization, publications lists used for promotion cases are
generated from the repository. Therefore it's in the author's best
interest to deposit their publications, and as a result we have close to
100% compliance.
Mike,
That's extremely
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Repository developers are invited to participate in a new Repository
Challenge prize activity to produce
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, James J. O'Donnell wrote:
...Whether to include [books] in OA mandates is Stevan Harnad's
question,
and since I regard such mandates with skepticism, that question doesn't
concern me.
But the question of mandates does concern a bigger and bigger
constituency, now that 6
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What Mike says is indeed interesting. It fits within a more general
approach where, at various institutional levels, the
On 27 Jan 2008, at 14:40, Stevan Harnad wrote:
I would simply underscore that the number
of authors who currently *do* want OA for their articles is low
enough
that Harnad and others recommend they be coerced to achieve the goal.
(1) Coerced is a rather shrill term! (Is every rule that
I like Les Carr's way to put it. Indeed coercion and mandates are very
unpleasant words. Being a
university rector (as we say, let's say Chairman, President or
Vice-Chancellor), I am very sensitive
to words that remind us of dictatorship. At a meeting on Institutional
Repositories in Valencia
