Analysis and Research on the Open Access Policy System of Institutional Repositories in Chinese and Foreign Universities

Abstract

Formulating a complete and comprehensive Open Access (OA) policy is conducive to the healthy and orderly development of institutional repositories. Through investigating the OA policies of a total of 30 universities in China, the United States and the United Kingdom, the author analyzes the policy contents from aspects such as the purpose of OA, deposit policy, usage policy, copyright policy and fund sponsor policy, and draws enlightenment in the formulation of OA policies. Chinese universities should gradually promote the implementation of mandatory OA policies according to their own characteristics; formulate a scientific and comprehensive policy system by providing detailed policy interpretations and term explanations; formulate personalized OA policies according to the disciplinary characteristics of universities and the characteristics of the knowledge base; and add the OA policy content of the fund project sponsors related to the university in the policy to facilitate the reasonable use by the authors.