This is a section within Good practices for university open-access policies. Adopting an OA policy is easier than implementing one, and the hardest part of implementing a "green" or repository-based ...

Open Access is academic publications that are free to read and often have various re-use rights utilizing Creative Commons licenses. Research can be Open Access through publishing or archiving. Open ...

In February 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued its policy memorandum, “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research.” The memo directed ...

The more eyes (on research), the better. In keeping with its mission of providing knowledge for the world, Johns Hopkins University this summer enacted a new open access policy to commit to the ideal ...

Danny Kingsley is the Executive Officer for the Australian Open Access Support Group. Her role is to advocate for open access. Rather than lock up knowledge in costly journals, increasingly ...

Some faculty object that an OA policy would infringe their academic freedom. If they object that it will limit their freedom to submit new work to the journals of their choice, then they are mistaking ...