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

In chronological order by date of adoption. We will eventually link to each policy. Bear with us while we find and add the links.

• Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2/12/08

Harvard Law School 5/1/08

• Stanford University School of Education 6/26/08

• Harvard Kennedy School 3/10/09

• MIT 3/18/09

• University of Kansas 4/30/09

• University of Oregon: Library Faculty 5/8/09

• University of Oregon: Department of Romance Languages 5/14/09

• Harvard Graduate School of Education 6/1/09

• Trinity University 10/27/09

• Oberlin College 11/20/09

• Wake Forest University, Library Faculty, 2/1/10

• Harvard Business School, 2/12/10

• Duke University 3/18/10

• University of Puerto Rico Law School, 3/24/10

• Harvard Divinity School 11/15/10

• The University of Hawaii-Manoa 12/10

• Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 12/10 or 1/11

• Strathmore University in Kenya, 2/11

• Harvard Graduate School of Design, 3/20/11

• Emory U, 3/11

• The Columbia U Libraries, 6/11

• Princeton, 9/11

• Bucknell, 10/4/11

• Bifröst University, in Iceland; first vote May 2011; confirmed January 2012

• Jomo Kenyatta U of Agriculture and Technology (Nairobi, Kenya); c. March 12

• Utah State University, April 2012

• Librarians at Miami U of Ohio, May 14, 2012

• University of California - San Francisco, May 21, 2012

• University of Massachusetts Medical School, July 27, 2012

• 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.