Open Access Policy Mandates | Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS)

Use the link to access the complete list described in the following blog post: “Institutional Open Access policy mandates are created and adopted by research organisations, funders or governments. These policies guide affiliated researchers to make their peer-reviewed scholarly publications accessible by depositing them in the organization’s institutional repository. Institutional policies can either be voluntary or mandatory. Mandatory policies have proven to be effective in increasing deposits to an organisation’s institutional repository. In the agricultural domain, the CIARD [Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development] movement established that ‘the lack of institutional, national, and international policies regarding access to information limits the effectiveness of agricultural research and innovation’. The Resources page in the Open Access section on this website provides toolkits and necessary resources for organisations to craft policies. This page presents a compilation of institutions working in the field of agriculture and related sciences that adopted open access mandates - derived from the mandates published on the Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP). There are five groups of mandates: institutional, sub-institutional, multi-institutional, funder and thesis mandates.”