The Patchwork Mandate

[Arthur Sale <ahjs@OZEMAIL.COM.AU>]

**Apologies for cross-posting**

Over the last few months this list has been inundated by people 
looking for policies to adopt for their institutional 
repositories, and frustrated by their management's inability to 
see that a mandate is required. I haven't been very helpful to 
the enquirers, because all of the encouragement type policies are 
known to be quite inadequate. However, I have done some thinking 
and have now put together a short paper (4 pages) on an option 
for repository managers wanting to fill their repositories under 
unhelpful conditions - The Patchwork Mandate.

I encourage you to download the working paper from 
http://eprints.utas.edu.au/410/, as it has nice typesetting and 
readability [and hyperlinks] in a pdf file. You can even show it 
to your senior managers.

Arthur Sale
Professor of Computing (Research)
University of Tasmania