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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 rights-retention OA 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.

Also see the Open Access Directory list of university rights-retention OA policies (launched July 21, 2023). While our list below is limited to the kinds of policies recommended in this guide (roughly, "Harvard-style" policies), the OAD list aims to cover these as well as policies taking other approaches.

  1. Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, February 12, 2008
  2. Harvard Law School, May 1, 2008
  3. Stanford University School of Education, June 10, 2008 (perma.cc link)
  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 23, 2009 (perma.cc link)
  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 4, 2010
  17. Harvard Divinity School, November 15, 2010
  18. The University of Hawaii-Manoa, March 2012, revised August 2019 (perma.cc link)
  19. Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, December 22, 2010, effective March 1, 2011
  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. University of Illinois Chicago, Library Faculty, November 21, 2011
  27. Bifröst University (in English), or in Icelandic, first vote May 2011; confirmed January 2012
  28. Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, c. March 2012
  29. Ohio State University Libraries, March 15, 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 (perma.cc link).
  40. Wellesley College, February 6, 2013
  41. College of Wooster, March 4, 2013
  42. Amherst College, March 5, 2013
  43. University of Rhode Island, March 21, 2013
  44. Allegheny College, May 16, 2013
  45. Stanford doctoral students at the Graduate School of Education, May 24, 2013
  46. California Institute of Technology, June 10, 2013
  47. Oregon State University, June 13, 2013
  48. University of California, July 24, 2013; strengthened, October 26, 2015
  49. Bryn Mawr College, December 11, 2013
  50. Harvard Medical School, June 18, 2014
  51. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), July 1, 2014
  52. National University of Distance Education (UNED) (Spain), July 14, 2014 (perma.cc link).
  53. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), October 7, 2014
  54. Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, October 9, 2014
  55. Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University, December 2014
  56. University of Minnesota, December 2014
  57. Boston University, February 11, 2015 (perma.cc link)
  58. University of Delaware, April 6, 2015
  59. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 24, 2015
  60. Harvard University Center for the Environment, July 1, 2015
  61. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 19, 2015
  62. University of Massachusetts Libraries, January 6, 2016.
  63. Florida State University, February 17, 2016.
  64. University of Arizona, April 4, 2016
  65. University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 7, 2016
  66. Middlebury College, May 17, 2016
  67. University of Texas Libraries, October 5, 2016
  68. Simon Fraser University, January 2017
  69. Stony Brook University, February 6, 2017 (perma.cc link).
  70. Indiana University, February 21, 2017
  71. Florida Gulf Coast University, March 31, 2017 (to take effect August 1, 2017)
  72. University of Washington (Librarians), May 2017 (to take effect September 1, 2017) (perma.cc link).
  73. Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, June 2017 (perma.cc link).
  74. University of Washington (Faculty), May 17, 2018
  75. Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University, June 28, 2018 (perma.cc link).
  76. Pennsylvania State University, April 23, 2019 (Perma.cc link).
  77. California State University, Fullerton, May 17, 2019 (perma.cc link).
  78. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, October 2019 (perma.cc link).
  79. University of Lethbridge, December 9, 2019. Perma.cc link.
  80. Butler University, April 28, 2020 (perma.cc link).
  81. Auckland University of Technology, June 1, 2020 (perma.cc link).
  82. Stanford University, November 19, 2020 (perma.cc link).
  83. California State University East Bay, May 19, 2021 (perma.cc link).
  84. Virginia Tech, taking effect July 1, 2021 (perma.cc link).
  85. University of Albany, September 7, 2021 (perma.cc link).
  86. University of Edinburgh, taking effect January 1, 2022 (perma.cc link).
  87. University of Florida, taking effect April 1, 2022 (perma.cc link).
  88. University of Maryland, April 8, 2022 (perma.cc link).
  89. University of Aberdeen, November 4, 2022, to take effect April 30, 2023 (perma.cc link).
  90. University of Oslo, December 8, 2022 (perma.cc link).
  91. University of St. Andrews, December 19, 2022 (perma.cc link).
  92. Case Western Reserve University, March 25, 2024.

Other resources and recommendations on university OA policies

University OA policies in general

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



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