Institutional Mandates and Institutional OA Repository Growth

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

                      ** Cross-Posted **

     Thomas, Chuck &  McDonald, Robert H. (2007)
     Measuring and Comparing Participation Patterns in Digital
     Repositories: Repositories by the Numbers, Part 1.
     D-lib Magazine 13 (9/10)
     http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/mcdonald/09mcdonald.html
     doi:10.1045/september2007-mcdonald

     EXCERPT: "As for mandatory-deposit repositories, the limited
     available data indicate authors represented in such repositories
     tend to contribute more of their intellectual output. Sale (2006)
     predicted institutions establishing deposit mandates were likely
     to see such results within three years of implementing these
     policies... This study's findings only reinforce such predictions
     and arguments favoring institutional mandates. As the data in this
     article show, a mandate is arguably the "tipping point" described by
     Gladwell (2000) that can make depositing behavior among scholars not
     just widespread, but also more of an ingrained and complete behavior."