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Anderson, R. (2016). Why are there virtually no mandatory open access policies at American universities? Learned Publishing 29(3), 215-218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/leap.1034
Armbruster, C. (2011). Open access policy implementation: First results compared. Learned Publishing 24(4), 311-324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/20110409
Awre, C., Beeken, A., Jones, B., Stainthorp, P., & Stone, G. (2016). Communicating the open access policy landscape. Insights 29(2), 126-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1629/uksg.308
Cantrell, M., & Johnson, A. (2018). Engaged Citizenship through Campus-Level Democratic Processes: A Librarian and Graduate Student Collaboration on Open Access Policy Adoption. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 6(2), eP2229. https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2229
Duranceau, E. F., & Kriegsman, S. (2016). Campus open access policy implementation models and implications for IR services. In B. B. Callicott, D. Scherer, & A. Wesolek (Eds.), Making Institutional Repositories Work (pp. 87-106). Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. Retrieved from https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/23503499
Duranceau, E. F., & Kriegsman, S. (2013). Implementing open access policies using institutional repositories. In P. Bluh, C. Hepfer, & M. L. Ramírez (Eds.), The Institutional Repository: Benefits and Challenges (pp. 81-105). ALCTS papers on library technical services and collections 18. Chicago: Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, American Library Association. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/alcts/sites/ala.org.alcts/files/content/resources/papers/ir_ch05_.pdf
Emmett, A., & Peterson, T. (2010). Achieving consensus on the University of Kansas open-access policy. Research Library Issues 269, 5-7. Retrieved from https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/6361
Emmett, A., Stratton, J., Peterson, A. T., Church-Duran, J., & Haricombe, L. (2011). Toward open access: It takes a village. Journal of Library Administration 51(5/6), 557-579. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2011.589345
Fruin, C., & Sutton, S. (2016). Strategies for success: Open access policies at North American educational institutions. College & Research Libraries 77(4), 469-499. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl.77.4.469
Gadd, E., Fry, J., & Creaser, C. (2018). The influence of journal publisher characteristics on open access policy trends. Scientometrics, 115(3), 1371–1393. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2716-8
Gilbert, J., Kinger, M., & Kullman, L. (2011). Implementing an open access policy at Chalmers Institute of Technology. IATUL Annual Conference Proceedings 21, 1-9. Retrieved from http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/2011/papers/10/
Harnad, S. (2015). Open access: What, where, when, how and why. In J. Britt Holbrook & C. Mitcham (Eds.), Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: An International Resource. Farmington Hills MI, MacMillan Reference. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/361704/
Harnad, S. (2015). Optimizing open access policy. The Serials Librarian, 69(2), 133-141. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/381526/
Kern, B., & Wishnetsky, S. (2014). Adopting and implementing an open access policy: The library’s role. Serials Librarian 66(1-4), 196-203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2014.880035
Kipphut-Smith, S., Boock, M., Chapman, K., & Hooper, M. W. (2018). Measuring Open Access Policy Compliance: Results of a Survey. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 6(1), eP2247. https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2247
Kipphut-Smith, S. (2014). Engaging in a campus-wide conversation about open access. Texas Library Journal 90(2), 70-71. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/76516
Kipphut-Smith, S. (2014). “Good enough”: Developing a simple workflow for open access policy implementation. College & Undergraduate Libraries 21(3/4), 279-294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10691316.2014.932263
Ludwig, D. (2010). Open access at the University of Kansas: Toward a campus initiative. College & Research Libraries News 71(7), 360-363, 384. http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/7/360.full
Miller, J. (2011). Open access and liberal arts colleges: Looking beyond research institutions. College & Research Libraries News 72(1), 16-30. http://scholarship.rollins.edu/as_facpub/16/
Mullen, L.B. & Otto, J.J. (2014). Open Access policymaking: Roles for academic librarians as "change agents" in research institutions. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries,1, 295-307. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3SJ1HZW
Mullen, L. B., & Otto, J.J. (2015). The Rutgers Open Access Policy: Implementation planning for success. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, 4, 207–217. https://doi.org/10.7282/T3FT8P32
Otto, J.J.(2016). A resonant message: Aligning scholar values and open access objectives in OA policy outreach to faculty and graduate students.Journal of Librarianship and Scholarship Communication, 4. http://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2152
Otto, J.J. & Mullen, L.B.(2017). The Rutgers Open Access Policy goes into effect: Faculty reaction and implementation lessons learned.Library Management (in press). http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3D50QDM
Priest, E. (2012). Copyright and the Harvard Open Access Mandate. Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property. 10(7), 377. https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njtip/vol10/iss7/1/
Schiff, L. (2016). The UC publication management system: Fulfilling the promise of UC’s open access policies. Application for the 2016 Larry L. Sautter Award for Innovation in Information Technology. Retrieved from http://www.ucop.edu/information-technology-services/initiatives/sautter-award-program/sautter-2016/UCOP-UC-Publication-Management-System.pdf
Shieber, S. (2009, June 30). University open-access policies as mandates [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2009/06/30/university-open-access-policies-as-mandates/
Shieber, S., and Suber P. (2012 to present). Good Practices for University Open-Access Policies [book, regularly updated]. https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Good_practices_for_university_open-access_policies
Smith, K. (2012). Why open access? The policy environment and process on one university campus. Insights 25(3), 246-250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1629/2048-7754.25.3.246
Soper, D. (2017). On passing an open access policy at Florida State University: From outreach to implementation. College & Research Libraries News, 78(8), 432. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.78.8.432
Suber, P. (2009, February 2). OA policy options for funding agencies and universities, SPARC Open Access Newsletter. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4322589
Suber, P. (2012). Open Access, MIT Press. Especially Chapter 4 on Policies . Also see the updates and supplements to Chapter 4. http://bit.ly/oa-book
Suber, P. (2008, April 2). Three principles for university open access policies, SPARC Open Access Newsletter. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4317659
Swan, A., Gargouri, Y., Hunt, M., & Harnad, S. (2015). Open access policy: Numbers, analysis, effectiveness. Pasteur4OA Workpackage 3 Report. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/375854/
Vandegrift, M., & Colvin, G. (2012). Relational communications. College & Research Libraries News 73(7), 386-389. http://crln.acrl.org/content/73/7/386.full
Vincent-Lamarre, P., Boivin, J., Gargouri, Y., Larivière, V., & Harnad, S. (2016). Estimating open access mandate effectiveness: The MELIBEA score. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 67 (in press). http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370203/
Wesolek, A. (2014). Bridging the gap between Digital Measures and Digital Commons in support of open access: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love human mediation. Collection Management 39(1), 32-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2014.860856
Wesolek, A., & Royster, P. (2015). Open-Access Policies: Basics and impact on content recruitment. In B. B. Callicott, D. Scherer, & A. Wesolek (Eds.), Making Institutional Repositories Work (pp. 55-68). Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/330
Xia, J., Gilchrist, S. B., Smith, N. X. P., Kingery, J. A., Radecki, J. R., Wilhelm, R. L., Harrison, K. C., Ashby, M. L., & Mahn, A. J. (2012). A review of open access self-archiving mandate policies. portal: Libraries and the Academy 12(1), 85-102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pla.2012.0000
Zhang, H., Boock, M., & Wirth, A. A. (2015). It takes more than a mandate: Factors that contribute to increased rates of article deposit to an institutional repository. Retrieved from http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/handle/1957/55661
For a list of other publications that contain recommendations for university OA policies, see:
- the Harvard Open Access Project wiki: https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Additional_resources#Other_recommendations_for_university_OA_policies
- the PASTEUR4OA project: http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/resources
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