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From: Michael White <michael.white@stir.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:24 AM
Subject: STORRE: Mandate Compliance Rate
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Hi,

There has been some discussion here and elsewhere on Mandate
Compliance Rates so I thought the following data that we've just
generated on the compliance rate here at Stirling might be of
interest/use to others.

Background - our mandate was announced in March 2008, came into effect
in September 2008, and applies to all journal articles from the start
of 2007 onwards. Our repository (STORRE: Stirling Online Research
Repository) is full text only.

The analysis is fairly quick and dirty - we took the ISI records
relating to any content subject to our mandate (namely all journal
articles, with at least one Stirling author, from the start of 2007
onwards) and looked to see which of these were in the repository by
comparing DOIs where they existed, or doing a case insensitive
comparison of the first 50 characters of the title if the ISI record
had no DOI.

This analysis showed that we had 32.5% of the mandated ISI content
from 2007 onwards in our repository.

Of course, ISI doesn't hold details of all our mandated output, so
this analysis is only looking at a subset, and that subset may or may
not be typical of the spread of compliance across the University (we
have definite areas within the University that are engaging heavily
with the repository, and some whose engagement is still fairly
minimal) - however, I think it is fair enough to extrapolate and say
that our compliance rate is about 32.5%. However accurate it is, it at
least gives us a baseline going forward, and we intend to monitor this
figure on a regular basis in order to track any trends.

This figure is not uniform over the period - if we look at the
mandated content from each year separately, we have the following
percentages of ISI content in the repository:

2007:    26.5%
2008:    42.4%
2009:    28.3%

I'll leave others to discuss whether or not they consider these
figures to be "good" or "bad" (or even "typical"). We're quite happy
with progress here though (although we can always do better!),
especially considering we only had around 20 journal articles in our
repository at the time the mandate was announced, the mandate has been
in effect for less than a year, and we have virtually no advocacy
resource :-).

And, of course, now that we know (roughly) where we are at, we can go
back to the Research VP, and the Research Committee, and let them know
that we now know that we are only getting about a third of the
mandated content we would expect (of course, we also get a lot of
unmandated content such as Book Chapters, Working Papers, Research
Reports, and Conference Papers).

For completeness, I've included the raw figures from this analysis below:

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Figures as of end July 09
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Total items in STORRE:       1324
Journal Articles in STORRE:  810

Number of Journal Articles in ISI with at least one Stirling author:

2007: 313
2008: 264
2009: 180
Total for period: 757

Number of Journal Articles from ISI data that appear in STORRE:

2007: 83
2008: 112
2009: 51
Total for period: 246

Approximate compliance rate:

2007: 26.5%
2008: 42.4%
2009: 28.3%
Total for period: 32.5%

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I hope this is of use/interest.

Regards,

Mike
Joint STORRE Manager
http://storre.stir.ac.uk/

Michael White
eLearning Developer
Centre for eLearning Development (CeLD)
3V3a, Cottrell
University of Stirling
Stirling SCOTLAND
FK9 4LA

Email: michael.white@stir.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1786 466877
Fax: +44 (0) 1786 466880

http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/celd/

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