If (with Peter Suber, in today's Open Access News), we count
full mandates adopted (BBSRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC, PPARC), expanded
(Wellcome Trust), and proposed (Canada CIHR, US Hughes), plus
Austria's and CCLRC's "semi-mandates", that would make ten in one
month (even more than Peter's eight, which missed PPARC and CCLRC!).
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_10_22_fosblogarchive.html#116186794713693270
The adoption of two big proposed mandates is still being breathlessly
awaited: FRPAA in the US and the European Commission Recommendation (A1):
http://cornyn.senate.gov/doc_archive/05-02-2006_COE06461_xml.pdf
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-study_en.pdf
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