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.

For those considering adopting their own policies, we recommend starting with the current Harvard model policy, which incorporates the latest recommended practices described in this guide. HOAP project staff are available for consultation on drafting as well.

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. Columbia University Libraries, June 1, 2011
24. Princeton University, September 19, 2011
25. Hope College, October 15, 2011
26. Bifröst University (in English), or in Icelandic, first vote May 2011; confirmed January 2012
27. Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, c. March 2012
28. Utah State University, April 2012
29. Miami University of Ohio, Library faculty, May 14, 2012
30. University of California - San Francisco, May 21, 2012
31. University of Massachusetts Medical School, July 27, 2012
32. McGill University Librarians, c. October 2012.
33. Rutgers University, October 19, 2012
34. Harvard School of Public Health, November 26, 2012
35. Georgia Institute of Technology, November 27, 2012
36. Olin College of Engineering, November 28, 2012
37. University of Nairobi, December 2012
38. Wellesley College, February 6, 2013
39. College of Wooster, March 4, 2013
40. Amherst College, March 5, 2013
41. University of Rhode Island, March 21, 2013
42. Allegheny College, May 16, 2013
43. Stanford doctoral students at the Graduate School of Education, May 24, 2013
44. California Institute of Technology, June 10, 2013
45. Oregon State University, June 13, 2013
46. University of California, July 24, 2013; strengthened, October 26, 2015
47. Bryn Mawr College, December 11, 2013
48. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), July 1, 2014
49. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), October 7, 2014
50. Harvard Medical School, June 18, 2014
51. Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, October 9, 2014
52. Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University, December 2014
53. University of Minnesota, December 2014
54. Boston University, February 11, 2015
55. University of Delaware, April 6, 2015
56. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 24, 2015
57. Harvard University Center for the Environment, July 1, 2015
58. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 19, 2015

Other recommendations for university OA policies

• Roberto Barbera, Rita Ricceri, and Mario Torrisi, Guidelines to Setup and Configure an Appliance for the Development of Standard Compliant Open Access Repositories, Sci-GaIA (Energising Scientific Endeavour through Science Gateways and e-Infrastructures in Africa), August 2015.

• 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.

• Martin Borchert and Paula Callan, Strategies for gaining and maintaining academic support for the institutional open access repository, April 14, 2013.

• COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories), Incentives, Integration, and Mediation: Sustainable Practices for Populating Repositories, June 18, 2013.

• Ellen Finnie Duranceau and Sue Kriegsman, Implementing Open Access Policies Using Institutional Repositories, chapter 5 of Pamela Bluh and Cindy Hepfer (eds.), The Institutional Repository: Benefits and Challenges, American Library Association, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), January 2013.

• Ellen Finnie Duranceau and Sue Kriegsman, Campus Open-Access Policy Implementation Models and Implications for IR Services, in Burton Callicott, David Scherer, and Andrew Wesolek (eds.), Making Institutional Repositories Work, Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences, Purdue University Press, 2015, pp. 87-105.

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

• EUA (European University Association), EUA's Open Access Checklist for Universities: A Practical Guide on Implementation, 2015.

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

• Stevan Harnad, Optimizing Open Access Policy, Serials Review, September 2015.

• 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.

• Meg Hunt and Alma Swan, Open Access policy typology: A briefing paper for research institutions, PASTEUR4OA, September 2015.

• JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), Implementing Open Access: some practical steps your institution can take, undated but apparently 2015.

• JISC, OA good practice pathfinder update: Supporting universities’ open access implementation through sharing examples of good practice, Spring 2015.

• JISC, Your institution and open access, June 2013.

• Danny Kingsley, Developing policies to support open access at your university, Working Paper, Australian National University, November 2010.

• MedOANet (Mediterranean Open Access Network), MedOANet Guidelines for implementing open access policies: For research performing and research funding organizations, November 2013. Now available in seven languages.

• 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.

• Bernard Rentier, Institutional repositories: it’s a matter of sticks and carrots, *Research, September 2015.

• 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), Responses to common misconceptions about campus open-access policies, n.d.

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

• Peter Suber Open Access, MIT Press, 2012, especially Chapter 4 on Policies. Also see the updates and supplements to Chapter 4.

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

• SUNScholar, Practical guidelines for starting an institutional repository, Stellenbosch University, July 2012.

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

• Victoria Tsoukala and Marina Angelaki, Open Access Policy Guidelines for Research Performing Organizations, PASTEUR4OA, September 2015.

• UK OAIG (UK Open Access Implementation Group), Information and Guidance, December 2011.

University OA policies in general

• AOASG (Australasian Open Access Support Group) page on Open Access Policies.

• 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. Also includes funding agency 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 can be followed as an RSS, Atom, or JSON feed:
  • Items tagged with "oa.best_practices" (items on OA best practices, including best practices on all OA-related topics, not just university OA policies)
  • 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.compliance" (items on compliance with OA policies)
  • Items tagged with "oa.deposits" (items on depositing work in OA repositories)
  • Items tagged with "oa.ir" (items on institutional repositories)
  • Items tagged with "oa.mandates" (items on OA mandates, including funder mandates, not just university mandates)
  • Items tagged with "oa.policies" (items on OA policies, including funder policies, not just university policies)

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