The Patchwork Mandate

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Arthur Sale[Edit][Delete]: The Patchwork Mandate, School of Computing, Australia [Edit][Delete] November 13, 2006
I still find this the most amazing this: "In the absence of mandates, every encouragement policy known to Man fails to convince more than 15% to 20% of researchers to invest the 5 minutes of time needed to deposit their publications." Hence the author's recommendation that, in the absence of an institutional mandate, advocates should seek departmental mandates - the 'patchwork' mandate. Reasonable enough. More...