** Cross-Posted **

On 2010-10-15, at 10:15 AM, Alma Swan wrote:

> Teesside University in the UK has launched its institutional repository and
> announced a mandatory policy on depositing the University's research
> outputs.

Bravo Teesside!

And since then, INRA (France) and U. Nottingham (UK) have announced the second and third institutional mandates of the Open Access Week 2010 Mandate Adoption Challenge  http://www.openaccessweek.org/events/oa-mandate-adoption-challenge-1

You can follow the daily progress of the OA Week OA Challenge on Alma Swan's OASIS http://bit.ly/OAweekMandates and EOS http://bit.ly/OAweekMandates2 [click twice] sites.

Please register any adopted or proposed mandates in ROARMAP, and encourage everyone else to do so too!
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php

Stevan Harnad
>
> The repository, TeesRep, was officially opened by the Vice Chancellor,
> Professor Graham Henderson, who welcomed the new development, saying: 'It
> plays a significant role in emphasising the importance of the research being
> undertaken by our staff and makes the findings of our publicly funded
> research available to the wider community.'
>
> 'The institutional repository holds journal articles, books, PhD theses and
> multimedia work going back to 2000. It increases the visibility and impact
> of the University’s research activities.' said Professor Cliff Hardcastle,
> Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise.
>
> Liz Jolly, Director of the University’s Library and Information Services -
> responsible for managing the archive - said: 'TeesRep is a valuable source
> of information for academics, and disseminates the University’s research
> outputs to the public at large.'
>
> TeesRep can be accessed from www.tees.ac.uk/teesrep
> <http://tees.openrepository.com/tees/> .