Wednesday, December 6. 2006
Brunel University: 9th departmental/institutional mandate
Brunel University's School of Information Systems Computing and Mathematics has just adopted the 9th departmental/institutional self-archiving mandate. (Together with the 6 research funder mandates, that now makes 15 mandates worldwide, and the 8th for the UK.)Brunel University School of Information Systems Computing and Mathematics (UNITED KINGDOM mandate)This is an instance of Prof. Artur Sale's recommended "Patchwork Mandate" -- departments first, then the university as a whole. Other examples are Prof. Sale's own University of Tasmania's departmental and university-wide mandates and University of Southampton's ECS departmental mandate (soon to become a university-wide mandate).
Institution's/Department's OA Eprint Archives: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/
Institution's/Department's OA Self-Archiving Policy:
BURA will make journal articles conference papers, doctoral theses, recordings and images freely available via the internet, allowing users to read, download and copy material for non-commercial private study or research purposes. Brunel's School of Information Systems Computing and Mathematics is supporting the initiative to make it compulsory for researchers to deposit their journal articles and theses in BURA. "[F]or academics it will make readily available their research to the world. If it is successful, it could also lead onto the whole university adopting mandatory self-archiving."
If your own university or research institution has a self-archiving policy, please register it in ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies)
Stevan Harnad
American Scientist Open Access Forum
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Hi Steve,
Thanks for picking up on Brunel's progression into mandatory self-archiving. If one thing I have learned since starting this job is, I don not want to be asking the same things from academics five years down the line. "Please deposit onto BURA". Hopefully, SISCM's policy take-up will be a very successful pilot and allow the rest of the university to make it mandatory - for the benefit of Brunel University and its researchers if not my own sanity!
Kindest Regards,
John
Thanks for picking up on Brunel's progression into mandatory self-archiving. If one thing I have learned since starting this job is, I don not want to be asking the same things from academics five years down the line. "Please deposit onto BURA". Hopefully, SISCM's policy take-up will be a very successful pilot and allow the rest of the university to make it mandatory - for the benefit of Brunel University and its researchers if not my own sanity!
Kindest Regards,
John
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