[open-science] clarification on effectiveness of mandates

Mon Apr 2 16:37:36 UTC 2012

The Times Higher has some figures for mandate compliance for the Wellcome
Trust this week:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=419475

This says only 55% compliance overall to date, and only 85% from the Sanger
Institute itself.

Laura

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Dr Laura James
Foundation Coordinator, Open Knowledge Foundation

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On 2 April 2012 08:48, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Many thanks,
> I have put these ideas out for discussion, not as scripture.
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Heather Piwowar <hpiwowar at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> What is your context for this bit?
>>
>>>
>>>    - [data] Mandates are a blunt weapon and so far have little
>>>    effectiveness
>>>
>>>
> OK - I will rephrase that.
>  [data] Mandates are a blunt weapon and so far have partial effectiveness
>
> Compliance with (say) Wellcome mandates for Open Access full text is
> probably about 60%. (The figure is not known). MRC is probably less in my
> small experience. There are few University mandates that seem to be
> enforced - I'd be surprised if 10% of UK universities had effective OA
> mandates for fulltext.
>
>>
>>>
>>> Do you mean the most common mandates -- "you should make your data
>> available" without any specifics or teeth -- or do you include mandates
>> that require evidence of a permanent archive URL prior to article
>> publication or end-of-grant funding?
>>
>> There is evidence of effectiveness of the latter (data into Genbank, PDB,
>> GEO, etc).
>>
>>
> PDB and Genbank have worked because the community require it, not the
> funders. I wouldn't call that a mandate in the current political sense.
>
> But I've put these ideas out for community revision - they are starting
> points
>
>
>> Heather
>>
>>
>
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