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 Luke Drury, Stephen Eglen, Sally Rumsey, Peter Suber, and many more for helping piece this list together.
• Please use YYYY-MM-DD for dates, this is the ISO 8601 international date standard.
• In some cases we use adoption dates rather than effective dates. In some cases we link to policy announcements rather than policy texts. We'll update both kinds of entries as we get better information.
• Peter Suber maintains a list of Harvard-style IRRps.
• Stephen Eglen maintains a map of UK IRRPs.

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Name of Institution	Country	Effective date	Opt-in, Opt-out, or Mandatory	Policy link
University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	2022-01-01	Opt-out	link
University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	2023-04-01	Opt-out	link
Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	USA	2011-03-1	Opt-out	link
Wake Forest University, Library Faculty	USA	2010-02-01	Opt-out	link
Oberlin College	USA	2009-11-18	Opt-out	link
University of Oregon, Library Faculty	USA	2009-05-07	Opt-out	link
Harvard Business School	USA	2010-02-12	Opt-out	link
Rollins College	USA	2010-12-25	Opt-out	link
Duke University	USA	2010-03-18	Opt-out	link
University of Oregon, Dept of Romance Languages	USA	2009-05-14	Opt-out	link
Harvard Graduate School of Education	USA	2009-06-01	Opt-out	link
Trinity University	USA	2009-10-23	Opt-out	link
University of Puerto Rico Law School	USA	2010-03-04	Opt-out	link
Harvard Divinity School	USA	2010-11-15	Opt-out	link
University of Hawaii-Manoa	USA	2012-03-01	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 University	USA	2008-01-01	Opt-out	link
Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences	USA	2008-02-12	Opt-out	link
Harvard Law School	USA	2008-05-01	Opt-out	link
Harvard Kennedy School of Government	USA	2009-03-10	Opt-out	link
University of Kansas	USA	2009-04-30	Opt-out	link
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA	2009-03-18	Opt-out	link
Stanford University School of Education	USA	2008-06-10	Opt-out	link
Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway	2022-10-01	Opt-out	link
University of Oslo	Norway	2023-01-01	Opt-out	link
Strathmore University	Kenya	2011-02-??	Opt-out	link
UiT The Arctic 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
Leibniz University Hannover	Germany	2022-06-??	Opt-in	link
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies	Ireland	2020-08-31	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.