Additional resources

• This is a section within Good practices for university open-access policies.

Policies of the kind recommended in the guide

Chronological by date of adoption. Links point to policies, not institutional home pages. Dates are dates of adoption.

1. Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, February 12, 2008
2. Harvard Law School, May 1, 2008
3. Stanford University School of Education, June 26, 2008
4. Harvard Kennedy School of Government, March 10, 2009
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), March 18, 2009
6. University of Kansas, April 30, 2009
7. University of Oregon, Library Faculty, May 7, 2009
8. University of Oregon, Department of Romance Languages, May 14, 2009
9. Harvard Graduate School of Education, June 1, 2009
10. Trinity University, October 27, 2009
11. Oberlin College, November 18, 2009
12. Wake Forest University, Library Faculty, February 1, 2010
13. Harvard Business School, February 12, 2010
14. Rollins College, February 25, 2010
15. Duke University, March 18, 2010
16. University of Puerto Rico Law School, March 24, 2010
17. Harvard Divinity School, November 15, 2010
18. The University of Hawaii-Manoa, Faculty Senate December 2010, Final adoption March 2012
19. Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, December 22, 2010
20. Strathmore University, c. February 2011
21. Emory University, March 15, 2011
22. Harvard Graduate School of Design, March 20, 2011
23. Lafayette College, April 5, 2011
24. Columbia University Libraries, June 1, 2011
25. Princeton University, September 19, 2011
26. Bucknell University, October 4, 2011
27. Hope College, October 15, 2011
28. Bifröst University (in English), or in Icelandic, first vote May 2011; confirmed January 2012
29. Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, c. March 2012
30. Utah State University, April 2012
31. Miami University of Ohio, Library faculty, May 14, 2012
32. University of California - San Francisco, May 21, 2012
33. University of Massachusetts Medical School, July 27, 2012
34. McGill University Librarians, c. October 2012.
35. Rutgers University, October 19, 2012
36. Harvard School of Public Health, November 26, 2012
37. Georgia Institute of Technology, November 27, 2012
38. Olin College of Engineering, November 28, 2012
39. University of Nairobi, December 2012
40. Wellesley College, February 6, 2013
41. College of Wooster, March 4, 2013

University OA policies in general

• COAPI (Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions), Institution Contacts and their Open Access Policies.

• ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies). The most comprehensive list of university OA mandates.

• Unanimous faculty votes for university OA policies. A list maintained by the Open Access Directory.

• Relevant tag libraries from the Open Access Tracking Project. These are archives of alerts to news and comment on certain OA subtopics. The library for each tag is updated in real time and includes links to live RSS and Atom feeds:
  • Items tagged with "oa.best_practices" (including best practices on all OA-related topics)
  • items tagged with "oa.case.policies.universities" (case studies of university OA policies)
  • Items tagged with "oa.case.repositories" (case studies of OA repositories)
  • Items tagged with "oa.deposits" (on depositing work in institutional repositories)
  • Items tagged with "oa.ir" (for "institutional repositories")
  • Items tagged with "oa.mandates" (including funder mandates, not just university mandates)
  • Items tagged with "oa.policies" (including funder policies, not just university policies)

Other recommendations for university OA policies

• BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative), Ten years on from the Budapest Open Access Initiative: setting the default to open, September 12, 2012. The ten-year anniversary statement from the BOAI, with recommendations for policy and practice.

• EOS (Enabling Open Scholarship), Formulating an institutional Open Access policy.

• Stevan Harnad, Integrating Institutional and Funder Open Access Mandates: Belgian Model, Open Access Archivangelism, December 23, 2011.

• Stevan Harnad, Waking OA's "Slumbering Giant": The University's Mandate To Mandate Open Access, New Review of Information Networking 14, 1 (2008) pp. 51-68.

• Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Harvard Model Open Access Policy. Annotated. Last updated, October 10, 2012.

• OASIS (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook), Developing an Institutional Open Access Policy, April 7, 2012.

• RCAAP (Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal), Open Access Policies Kit, March 31, 2011.

• Arthur Sale, Marc Couture, Eloy Rodrigues, Leslie Carr, and Stevan Harnad, Open Access Mandates and the "Fair Dealing" Button, in: Rosemary J. Coombe and Darren Wershler, eds., Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online, 2012.

• Stuart Shieber, The Occasional Pamphlet. Blog entries on scholarly communication.

• SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), A SPARC Guide for Campus Action, April 25, 2012.

• SPARC, Campus Open Access Policies project, launched August 5, 2009.

• Peter Suber, OA policy options for funding agencies and universities, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, February 2, 2009.

• Peter Suber, Three principles for university open access policies, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2, 2008.

• Alma Swan, Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access, UNESCO, March 2012.

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