Open Access

The universities mentioned below adopted an open access policy. Here are the links to these universities' policies and information portals created for their communities: 

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Harvard University
• Oxford University
• Princeton University
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Cambridge
• Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)

Several universities from Quebec have adopted policies encouraging their researchers to publish in open access.

• Université de Montréal (in French only)
• Université Laval (in French only)
• Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) (in French only)
• Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) (in French only)

Some of these universities have even established a fund to support researchers in paying the fees charged by publishers to make their articles available in open access. See also other interesting academic open access initiatives:

• Université de Montréal (in French only)
• Université Laval (in French only)
• University of Ottawa
• Concordia University
• York University

More and more universities have created institutional repositories for enabling access to their research community's publications. These repositories contain articles, theses, dissertations, technical reports, and other documents. A list of institutional repositories is presented in the Finding tab of this guide.