** Apologies for Cross-Posting **

The Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of
Sciences and the Middle East Technical University in Turkey have
adopted Open Access Self-Archiving Mandatesaand registered them
 in ROARMAP:
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

Bravo to these institutions. Worldwide, that now makes:

    11 institutional mandates
    3 departmental mandates
    12 funder mandates
    5 proposed funder mandates
    1 proposed multi-institutional mandate

(and some of the proposed mandates are big ones!)

If your institution has an Institutional Repository, please register it in
the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR), which will then track its
growth and contents:
http://roar.eprints.org/

And if your institution has adopted or is proposing to adopt an OA Self-Archiving
Mandate, please register it in ROARMAP, for others to see and emulate:
http://www.eprints. rg/openaccess/policysignup/

Sevan Harnad
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing
open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2007)
is available at:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/
        To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
        Post discussion to:
        american-scientist-open-access-forum@amsci.org

UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional
policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output,
please describe your policy at:
        http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php

UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
    BOAI-1 ("green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
            http://romeo.eprints.org/
OR
    BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a open-access journal if/when
            a suitable one exists.
            http://www.doaj.org/
AND
    in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
            in your institutional repository.
            http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
            http://archives.eprints.org/
            http://openaccess.eprints.org/