Working Together to Promote Open Access Policy Alignment in Europe: Work Package 3 report: Open Access Policies

"The PASTEUR4OA project is focused on Open Access policy developments and is undertaking a number of activities relating to policy, including mapping policies and policy-related activities, and engaging with policymakers and providing them with information about the general policy picture and what makes a policy effective. Work Package 3 involved a set of tasks as follows: [1] Describe and enumerate the policy picture in Europe and around the world [2] Rebuild ROARMAP, the registry of OA policies, including the development of a new, detailed classification scheme that describes policy elements [3] Collect data on the levels of Open Access material in institutional repositories around the world [4] Measure policy outcomes and analyse what elements of a policy contribute to its effectiveness...."