** Cross Posted ** (Please feel free to re-post to relevant academic mailing lists) The response to the OA Week OA Mandate Challenge is already quite remarkable, as you will see from Alma Swan's daily graphs: http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=615&catid=56 In the 6 days since the Challenge was posted (11 October), 7 new mandate adoptions and proposals have already been registered in ROARMAP: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ Apart from the time Finland registered its 26 mandates all in one day, this is already the largest burst of OA mandates since ROARMAP was launched (in 2003): http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/674-guid.html The 2010 OA Week OA Mandate Challenge can make a real, substantive, lasting contribution to accelerating the growth of OA. Not only will registering already-adopted mandates in ROARMAP help, but, perhaps even more, registering *proposed* mandates will help doubly: It will (1) reinforce the local institutional case for adoption of the proposal and (2) the example of the OA week adoptions and proposals will inspire many more proposal and adoptions globally. Adoptions cannot be generated within one open-access week, but proposals can be! Please use this week to try to generate a formal proposal at your institution, register it, and the momentum you start will continue building and broadening long after OA Week is over: To register an OA mandate adoption or proposal: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php#fr OA Week Mandate Challenge: http://www.openaccessweek.org/events/oa-mandate-adoption-challenge-1