Harvard Open Access Policies | Harvard Library

"Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences faculty voted unanimously in 2008 to give Harvard permission to make their scholarly articles available for any non-commercial purpose, in the interest of disseminating the fruits of their research and scholarship as widely as possible. In the years since, the remaining eight Harvard schools and several research centers have voted to establish similar open access policies....

If you are considering adopting an open access policy at your institution, we encourage you to consult the annotated Model Open Access Policy and the Good Practices for University Open Access Policies, representing the accumulated experience of multiple institutions that have drafted and implemented open access policies...."