Shrewd University OA Policy Advice from the Antipodes

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Arthur Sale[Edit][Delete]: Shrewd University OA Policy Advice from the Antipodes, BOAI Forum [Edit][Delete] May 2, 2006

This item, a post on the BOAI discussion list, offers a slew of good advice on author support for institutional repositories. Worth noting, as Arthur Sale says, "the vast majority of academics (85%+) are non-participants and will seize any excuse however spurious to avoid doing any extra work." And so, "Don't expend significant amounts of time and money on author-support until you've got the mandate. It is pretty much wasted anyway, like flushing dollar notes down the toilet". More...