ABSTRACT
From the 2008 survey it appears that nearly one-third of the institutes have some sort of mandatory depositing policy. This percentage has increased somewhat since 2006. Just over half of the institutes have an official policy of voluntary deposition and nearly 15% have not formulated any official policy. From the comments by the respondents, most mandatory policies appear to be limited, to theses or to metadata only. Eleven possible institutional policies were surveyed. Raising awareness campaigns among academics is the most frequently policy, nearly 60% of the repositories. An important change to the 2006 survey is that the number of repositories reporting that some academics in their institution are required to deposit research output by researching organisations has increased considerably, from 19% to 30%.
