Open-access mandate
Policy requiring or recommending Open Access to scientific publications / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Open-access policy" redirects here. Not to be confused with Open educational resources policy.
An open-access mandate is a policy adopted by a research institution, research funder, or government which requires or recommends researchers—usually university faculty or research staff and/or research grant recipients—to make their published, peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers open access (1) by self-archiving their final, peer-reviewed drafts in a freely accessible institutional repository or disciplinary repository ("Green OA") or (2) by publishing them in an open-access journal ("Gold OA")[1][2][3][4] or both.