October so far - more than one OA mandate a day!

[Heather Morrison <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>]

With apologies for cross posting - news this good just has to be 
shared!

This is so much going on in open access, it's hard to keep up 
with it all!

Here is one way of looking at what is happening with the mandates 
- so far in October, 6 mandates have come into effect (4 RCUK 
mandates, and expanded Wellcome Trust Mandate, and a new mandate 
from Austria).  That is more than one per business day so far 
this month!  Just goes to show the enormous strides being made in 
this key area...

A bit more detail and links to the relevant Open Access News 
posts can be found on OA Librarian: 
http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/10/october-so-far-mandate-day.html

Many thanks to Peter Suber on Open Access News for keeping us all 
up to speed on these events, and to Matt Cockerill for the news 
about the Austrian mandate.

Heather Morrison
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com