University rights-retention OA policies

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

• This list is still under development. Every part of it may change before the official launch, including its title, URL, scope notes, and method of organization.

• This is a list of institutional rights retention policies (IRRPs).
• Many thanks to Stephen Eglen, Peter Suber, Sally Rumsey, Luke Drury and many more for helping piece this list together
• Please use YYYY-MM-DD for dates, this is the ISO 8601 international date standard

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Name of Institution	Country	Date policy effective from	Opt-in, Opt-out, or Mandatory	Link to the policy
University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	2022-01-01	Opt-out	link
University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	2023-04-01	Opt-out	link
Birkbeck University of London	United Kingdom	2022-??-??	Opt-out	link
Sheffield Hallam University	United Kingdom	2022-10-15	Opt-out	link
University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	2023-01-05	Opt-out	link
University of Leeds	United Kingdom	2023-01-01	Opt-out	link
University of Newcastle	United Kingdom	2022-08-01	Opt-out	link
University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	2023-02-01	Opt-out	link
University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	2023-01-17	Opt-out	link
University of Durham	United Kingdom	2023-03-31	Opt-out	link
University of Lancaster	United Kingdom	2023-03-01	Opt-out	link
University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	2023-01-24	Opt-out	link
University of Manchester	United Kingdom	2023-03-01	Opt-out	link
University of York	United Kingdom	2023-01-24	Opt-out	link
University of Oxford	United Kingdom	2023-01-31	Opt-out	link
King's College London	United Kingdom	2023-01-03	Opt-out	link
London South Bank University	United Kingdom	2023-07-01	Opt-out	link
University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	2023-09-01	Opt-out	link
Harvard	USA	2008-01-01	Opt-out	link
MIT	USA	2009-03-18	Opt-out	link
Stanford	USA	????	Opt-out
Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway	2022-10-01	Opt-out	link
University of Oslo	Norway	2023-01-01	Opt-out	link
UiT The Artic University of Norway	Norway	2022-01-01	Opt-out	link
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)	Norway	2023-04-01	Opt-out	link
University of Stavanger	Norway	2023-??-??	Opt-out
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies	Republic of Ireland	unknown	Mandatory	link
University of New South Wales	Australia	2021-12-01	Mandatory*	link

Notes:

• The University of New South Wales policy is more or less mandatory. "Except as otherwise agreed in writing by the President and Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research and Enterprise" it is not characterized as a simple opt-out and so we do not treat it as such.