Stephen Downes

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Report on the impact of mandated open access. "The stronger the mandate, the more the deposits. The strongest mandates generate deposit rates of 70%+ within 2 years of adoption, compared to the un-mandated deposit rate of 20%.`So, the lesson is, if institutions want their professors to deposit papers into institutional repositories, they are more likely to get results if they enact an archiving mandate (and more significantly - not very likely to get results if they don`t).

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