From: Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 08:16:30 -0400

Requirements for eligibility for REF2020 (papers must be deposited
immediately upon acceptance for publication -- access to deposit must
be made open immediately or, at the latest, by the end of the
permissible embargo).

If your institution has adopted (or upgraded) and OA policy, please
register it in ROARMAP to inspire other institutions to adopt and
register their OA policies.

ROARMAP is also conducting studies, with the help of the data from the
new ROAR database (coming soon) to monitor and record the
effectiveness of OA policies in terms of their deposit rate
(percentage of annual published output that is deposited) and deposit
latency (when the papers are deposited, relative to publication date).

OA Policies differ in their requirements. It is hoped that the
comparative data will help institutions that already have an OA policy
to monitor and compare its effectiveness with other policy models and
will help institutions planning to adopt and OA policy to pick the
most effective model.

Stevan Harnad