Spain's 3rd and 4th Green OA Mandates, Planet's 71st and 72nd

2009-03-27 Thread Stevan Harnad
A second university mandate (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) plus a second funder mandate (Madrid Autonomous Community) from Spain, raising the worldwide total of Green OA self-archiving mandates to 72! ¡Viva España!

New Version (2.1) of the DSpace Statistics Add-on

2009-03-27 Thread Eloy Rodrigues
Apologies for cross-posting   I'm glad to announce that the RepositóriUM team at Minho University has finished the documentation and packaging off a new version of the DSpace Statistics Add-on, which we already use in our Repository for some months. This Add-on (see description below) is availab

One more of Richard Poynder's revealing and insightf ul OA Interviews, this time of France's first and foremost O A champion, H�l�ne Bosc.on

2009-03-27 Thread Stevan Harnad
One more of Richard Poynder's revealing and insightful OA Interviews, this time of France's first and foremost OA champion, Hélène Bosc. The full interview is here.  Peter Suber, writes: "This is another richly textured interview, unearthing details about the early history of OA

New New Spanish Funder's "Open Access" mandate - Comunidad Madrid

2009-03-27 Thread Eloy Rodrigues
[On behalf of Alicia López Medina]   Madrid Autonomous Community of Spain mandates Open Access for its funded research results.   "(... )researchers beneficiary of the grant programme must facilitate open access to their research results in the institutional repository of their institution or

Re: Central 'Request a copy' address?

2009-03-27 Thread Stevan Harnad
[ The following text is in the "WINDOWS-1252" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] I completely agree with Charles: The quintessence of the functionality and legality of the email-eprint-request