FURTHER READING
Open Access
The PASTEUR4OA project (Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research: 
http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/) provides an extensive range of briefing papers and Open Access policy 
guidelines.  The Toolkit for Research Funders (http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/resources?qt-
resources=9#qt-resources) comprises essential resources to develop and support Open Access 
polices:
 Monitoring Compliance with Open Access Policies : the study highlights why policy 
compliance must be monitored and how it can be done;
 Open Access Policy Alignment Checklist:   the questionnaire allows you to check policy 
alignment with the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Open Access mandate;
 Open Access to Research Data: a briefing paper;
 Open Access Policy Guidelines for Funders  ;
 Open Access policy guidelines for research funders (PowerPoint presentation); 
 Briefing Paper: Open Access: an introduction to the essentials of Open Access;
 Open Access policy effectiveness: A briefing paper for research funders.
The full range of PASTEUR4OA materials is given at: http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/resources?qt-
resources=9#qt-resources.  There are also national case studies and two case studies of funders:
 Open Access Policies of Research Funders: The Case Study of the Austrian Science Fund 
(FWF) ; 
 Funder Open Access Policy Implementation at the Health Research Board Ireland.
Open Data
On Open Data, the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) offers an extensive range of policy resources at: 
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal.  These include:
 Five Steps to Developing a Research Data Policy;
 Overview of funders' data policies (funders' publication and data policies and the support 
they provide summarised in tabular form – mainly UK).
There is also a useful detailed report on the policies of 17 health research funders, published by the 
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: Funder Requirements for Data Management and 
Sharing.
The RECODE Project published in 2014: Policy recommendations for open access to research data. 
Available at: http://recodeproject.eu/wp-
content/uploads/2015/01/recode_guideline_en_web_version_full_FINAL.pdf.
David Ball
January 2016