University statements on OA
- This is a list of university and university-library statements on open access, open knowledge, open research, open scholarship, open science, and related topics.
- It does not include university OA policies. For those, see ROARMAP.
- Nor does it include university principles for negotiating with publishers.
- In some cases, it includes statements by university consortia and statements by units within universities.
- Related lists in OAD: (1) Institutional principles for negotiating with publishers, (2) University rights-retention OA policies.
- Alphabetical by university.
C
- Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL)
- CAUL Statement on Open Scholarship 2019, March 27, 2019.
D
- Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
G
- GW4 Alliance
- The GW4 Alliance is a consortium of the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, and Exeter.
- GW4 Joint Statement: Rights Retention in Scholarly Works, n.d. (perma.cc link).
- Announcement, November 23, 2023.
H
- Harvard Library
- Harvard Library’s Commitment to Open Access, October 23, 2019 (perma.cc link).
I
- Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
- Statement of Open Values, June 26, 2019
- Blog post about the statement, October 22, 2019
- SPARC post about the statement, May 27, 2020
- Iowa State University
- Iowa State University Library Open Access Commitment, September 18, 2018.
- 2021 ISU Library OA Commitment, November 5, 2021.
- Updating a Commitment to Openness, March 9, 2022.
L
- Lancaster University
- Loughborough University
- Open Research Position Statement, December 6, 2019
M
- McGill University
- Open Access Statement, last revised April 30, 2020
- Announcement and blog post on the April 2020 revision
- Mount Royal University Library
- Position Statement on Open Access, March 21, 2014
R
- Royal Holloway, University of London
O
- Orbis Cascade Alliance
- OCA is a consortium of 37 colleges and universities in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
- Commitment to Open Principles & Practices, May 2021
S
- Simon Fraser University
- SFU Open Science Principles – Draft for Community Consultation, n.d. but apparently January 2024.
U
- University of Aberdeen
- Open Research Statement, n.d.
- University College London
- Research Transparency
- Also see this version, November 2019. (Can't tell whether there are other versions.)
- Statement on Open Science, n.d.
- Research Transparency
- University of Cambridge
- The University’s Open Research Position Statement; first released November 2018; last revised March 2019
- University of Dundee
- Statement on Open Research, April 2020
- University of Leeds
- Statement on Research Culture, n.d. Touches on OA but does not focus on it.
- University of Manchester
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Statement on UMass Amherst's Commitment to Open Scholarship, August 19, 2021
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- University of Reading
- University of Saskatchewan Library
- Open Access Commitment, 2020 version, renewing and upgrading the 2010 statement. The announcement is dated April 29, 2021.
- University of Sheffield
- University statement on Open Research, n.d.
- Announced January 16, 2023.
- University of Surrey
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- University of Texas, Austin
- Sustainable Open Scholarship, December 2021.
- University of Victoria Library
- Statement of Commitment, effective date January 1, 2012
- University of Virginia, School of Data Science
- Open Access Guidelines and Recommendations, February 3, 2021
- SPARC announcement about these guidelines and recommendations, February 16, 2021
- University of Wolverhampton
- Open Research Statement, January 2020
- University of York
- Open research statement, n.d. but launched on May 29, 2020
W
- Western University
- Western Libraries Open Access Statement, n.d.
- Presentation on the statement, February 1, 2018
- Blog post about the statement, July 25, 2018