Additional resources

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

University OA policies in general

• Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP). 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. Each 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.mandates" (including funder mandates, not just university mandates)
  • items tagged with "oa.policies" (including funder policies, not just university policies)
  • items tagged with "oa.ir" (for "institutional repositories")

Policies of the kind recommended in the guide

• Harvard's OA policies
  • Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  • Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Harvard Graduate School of Design
  • Harvard Business School
  • Harvard Law School
  • Harvard Kennedy School of Government
  • Harvard Divinity School
  • Harvard Model Policy, annotated
  • Harvard's guidelines and FAQs
    • for authors
    • for publishers
    • DASH terms of use

• Many more to come....

Other recommendations for university OA policies

• 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 policy and practice recommendations.

• SPARC A SPARC Guide for Campus Action, April 25, 2012.

• 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.