Open Access Policy Mandates
This page presents a compilation of organizations dedicated to the field of agriculture and related sciences that have adopted an open access mandate. It also includes other institutions, like universities, where agriculture is covered among other disciplines. This list is derived from the Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP).
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 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.
i) National Mandates
Ireland
Ireland National Steering Committee on Open Access 
ii)Institutional Mandates
Australia
Queensland University of Technology
Charles Sturt University
Macquarie University
Belgium
Flanders Marine Institute
Université de Liège (University of Liege)
Ghent University
France
Institut francais de recherche pour
French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
Iceland
Bifröst University
Rannis - The Icelandic Centre for Research
India
National Institute of Oceanography
Indian Council of Agricultural Research DRAFT Policy
Indian Institute of Horticultural Research
Indonesia
University of Muhammadiyah Malang
Japan
Hokkaido University
Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Netherlands
Utrecht University
Peru
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Portugal
University of Porto
Instituto Politecnico de Braganca (IPB)
Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
Instituto Politécnico de Viseu (IPV)
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Spain
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
United Kingdom
University of Reading
University of Salford
University of Stirling
United States
University of California
Cornell University
Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Bucknell University
Princeton University
Lafayette College
Utah State University
University of Hawaii-manoa
University of Florida
University of Kansas
Venezuela
Universidad de Los Andes (ULA)
Vietnam
Research Center For Forest Ecology and Environment
iii) Multi-institutional Mandates
International
EUR-OCEANS Consortium
ICRISAT International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics-
United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) 
iv) Sub-institutional Mandates
France
INRA Department of Animal Physiology and Livestock Systems
Italy
University of Turin: Department of Social Sciences
United States
Oregon State University, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
Oregon State University: Library Faculty
Columbia University Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory
Brigham Young University Library
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Earth Institute at Columbia University
v) Thesis Mandates
Brazil
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS
Australia
The University of Melbourne
Canada
University of Guelph
Colombia
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Italy
Università degli Studi di Salerno
South Africa
Nerthelands
United Kingdom
United States
UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston
California Institute of Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
vi) Funder Mandates
Australia
Australian Research Council (ARC)
Canada
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Europe
EUR-OCEANS Consortium on Ocean Ecosystem Analysis
Hungary
Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
Spain
Government of the Principality of Asturias
United Kingdom
Department for International Development (DFID)
Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC)
Research Councils United Kingdom (RCUK)
United States
