Recently, a number of institutions have issued policies detailing their support for Open Access. These OA policies set forth guidelines for this support. Typically, these policies revolve around an institutional repository that collects all of the work produced at that institution using a Green OA model.
An OA policy may:
This incomplete list of Open Access policies from Vassar's peer institutions, and others with unique policies, is intended to provide examples. Many of the policies are based at least in part on a template of model policy language from Harvard. MIT, Duke, Stanford and many other institutions too numerous to list have also adopted open access policies.