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- 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.
- Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, February 12, 2008
- Harvard Law School, May 1, 2008
- Stanford University School of Education, June 26, 2008
- Harvard Kennedy School of Government, March 10, 2009
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), March 18, 2009. Extended, April 6, 2017.
- University of Kansas, April 30, 2009
- University of Oregon, Library Faculty, May 7, 2009
- University of Oregon, Department of Romance Languages, May 14, 2009
- Harvard Graduate School of Education, June 1, 2009
- Trinity University, October 27, 2009
- Oberlin College, November 18, 2009
- Wake Forest University, Library Faculty, February 1, 2010
- Harvard Business School, February 12, 2010
- Rollins College, February 25, 2010
- Duke University, March 18, 2010
- University of Puerto Rico Law School, March 24, 2010
- Harvard Divinity School, November 15, 2010
- The University of Hawaii-Manoa, Faculty Senate December 2010, Final adoption March 2012
- Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, December 22, 2010
- Strathmore University, c. February 2011
- Emory University, March 15, 2011
- Harvard Graduate School of Design, March 20, 2011
- Columbia University Libraries, June 1, 2011
- Princeton University, September 19, 2011
- Hope College, October 15, 2011
- University of Illinois Chicago, Library Faculty, November 21, 2011
- Bifröst University (in English), or in Icelandic, first vote May 2011; confirmed January 2012
- Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, c. March 2012
- Ohio State University Libraries, March 15, 2012.
- Utah State University, April 2012
- Miami University of Ohio, Library faculty, May 14, 2012
- University of California - San Francisco, May 21, 2012
- University of Massachusetts Medical School, July 27, 2012
- McGill University Librarians, c. October 2012.
- Rutgers University, October 19, 2012
- Harvard School of Public Health, November 26, 2012
- Georgia Institute of Technology, November 27, 2012
- Olin College of Engineering, November 28, 2012
- University of Nairobi, December 2012
- Wellesley College, February 6, 2013
- College of Wooster, March 4, 2013
- Amherst College, March 5, 2013
- University of Rhode Island, March 21, 2013
- Allegheny College, May 16, 2013
- Stanford doctoral students at the Graduate School of Education, May 24, 2013
- California Institute of Technology, June 10, 2013
- Oregon State University, June 13, 2013
- University of California, July 24, 2013; strengthened, October 26, 2015
- Bryn Mawr College, December 11, 2013
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), July 1, 2014
- Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), October 7, 2014
- Harvard Medical School, June 18, 2014
- Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, October 9, 2014
- Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University, December 2014
- University of Minnesota, December 2014
- Boston University, February 11, 2015
- University of Delaware, April 6, 2015
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 24, 2015
- Harvard University Center for the Environment, July 1, 2015
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 19, 2015
- University of Massachusetts Libraries, January 6, 2016.
- Florida State University, February 17, 2016.
- University of Arizona, April 4, 2016
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 7, 2016
- Middlebury College, May 17, 2016
- University of Texas Libraries, October 5, 2016
- Simon Fraser University, January 2017
- Stony Brook University, February 6, 2017
- Indiana University, February 21, 2017
- Florida Gulf Coast University, March 31, 2017 (to take effect August 1, 2017)
- University of Washington Librarians, May 2017 (to take effect September 1, 2017)
- Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, September 30, 2017
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.
- COAPI (Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions), Public COAPI Toolkit of Open Access Policy Resources, first released March 2, 2016. Frequently updated.
- COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories), Incentives, Integration, and Mediation: Sustainable Practices for Populating Repositories, June 18, 2013.
- DORA (Declaration on Research Assessment), Inspiration and good practices, undated and apparently updated now and then.
- 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, December 18, 2015.
- András Holl, Erika Bilicsi, and David Ball, Briefing Paper: Open Access mandate support, PASTEUR4OA, January 2016.
- 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, apparently first released in 2015. Periodically updated.
- JISC, Moving open access implementation forward: A handbook for open access good practice based on experiences of UK higher education institutions, December 2016.
- JISC, OA good practice initiative: Final project report, December 2016.
- JISC, OA good practice pathfinder update: Supporting universities’ open access implementation through sharing examples of good practice, Spring 2015.
- JISC, Open access good practice: Sharing examples of open access (OA) good practice to support universities in implementing OA as efficiently as possible, Archived November 30, 2016.
- 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.
- OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repositories, OpenAire, 2015.
- 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.
- Sarah Tanksalvala, Running Effective Institutional Repositories: A Look at Best Practices, DuraSpace, June 15, 2016.
- 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 collections of news and comment on certain OA-related topics. Each tag library is crowd-sourced, updated in real time, stored for boolean searching, and available for following as an RSS feed, Atom feed, JSON feed, or on an HTML page organized like a blog:
- 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.implementation (items on implementing OA policies)
- 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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