Best practices for university OA policies

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  • Last revised August 9, 2012. Version 0.8.
  • This version is only being shared with contributors and likely partners. When we have a critical mass of supporting organizations, we will 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.
  • This version of the guide was written by Stuart Shieber (Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Office for Scholarly Communication at Harvard University) and [bit.ly/suber-gplus Peter Suber] (Director of the Harvard Open Access Project and Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society). It reflects their views as individuals, in consultation with many others (below), not necessarily the views of Harvard University.
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