Best practices for university OA policies

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  • Last revised August 6, 2012. Version 0.8.
  • The present version is only being shared with contributors and likely partners. When we have a critical mass of supporting organizations, we will make make it public.

Preface

  • This is a guide to best practices for university open access (OA) policies. It's based on the type of policies at Harvard and MIT, but includes recommendations that should be useful to institutions with other sorts of OA policy as well.
  • Over time we hope to incorporate the suggestions and gather the endorsements of other institutions.
  • The guide may always be incomplete. In any case, this version is certainly incomplete and doesn't cover every point on which "best practices" would be desirable or might be discernible. It doesn't cover points still under discussion by participating authors, or points on which best practices have not yet emerged. We plan to revise and enlarge the guide over time, and to mark each edition with a version number and date.
  • The guide is in wiki format for easy revision and updating. But editing is limited to invited participants. Please contact us to suggest revisions or discuss participation.
  • For a PDF version of any section of the guide, click the "printable version" link in the left sidebar.