Stevan Harnad
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"Zurich Open Access Symposium" (Oct 2004)
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4012.html

"University of Zurich: 5th Institution with Self-Archiving Mandate"
(Oct 2005)
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4850.html

"Press release: Zurich Open Repository and Archive goes live using
Open Repository service (fwd)" (Nov 2006)
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5843.html

Prompted by Klaus Graf's report on the slow progress in implementing
U. Zurich's self-archiving mandate (Mar 2008)
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4768313/ I contacted Prof. Alexander
Borbely at UZ, who has replied that after something of a delay, Zurich's
mandate is now at last being implemented, in the form of a deposit
mandate for annual academic reporting, as of 2008:

To: Stevan Harnad
From: Alexander Borbely
Subject: Re: Important: ZORA's Mandate

Dear Istvan,

I apologize for my late reply. I wanted to check the situation with
Dr. Christian Fuhrer and Ingeborg Zimmermann, members of our Open
Access project group.

The implementation of the mandate to deposit all UZH publications
on the institutional server is under way.

ZORA currently has 2241 documents with 35% "legal" full-text
papers. There has been a delay due to the change of platform.
http://roar.eprints.org/index.php?action=search&query=zora&submit=Search

For the academic report of 2008 all scientific publications of
UZH will be harvested from ZORA and for this purpose an automated
interface will be established.

Presently, the project team is busy with presentations of the project
at faculty meetings to provide optimal information and motivation.

So the aim is in complete correspondence with your OA policy but
its implementation requires some more time.

Udvözlettel

Sandor

So, historically, U. Zurich was among the fleet ones in adopting an OA
mandate, but has been rather less fleet in implementing it! (As it is
still among the first 16 universities to adopt, however, it is still
well ahead of the competition!)

The Zurich deposit mandate is the optimal one, but rather than
implementing it as an annual backlog, offloaded onto librarians to
do mediated batch deposit, Zurich should work toward direct deposit,
immediately upon acceptance for publication, by the authors themselves.
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/071-guid.html

After all, the only thing involved is a few minutes worth of keystrokes
per paper:

Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2005) Keystroke Economy: A
Study of the Time and Effort Involved in Self-Archiving.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/

Stevan Harnad
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