<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​There are now almost 700 Open Access policies around the world, two thirds of them in universities and</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">research institutes. There is considerable variation across these policies in terms of the conditions they</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lay down for authors and of their effectiveness. <b><font color="#ff0000">This briefing paper lays out the main issues that affect</font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#ff0000">the effectiveness of a policy in providing high levels of Open Access research material.</font></b></div></div><div><br></div><a href="http://pasteur4oa.eu/sites/pasteur4oa/files/resource/Open%20Access%20policy%20effectiveness_A%20briefing%20paper%20for%20research%20institutions.pdf">http://pasteur4oa.eu/sites/pasteur4oa/files/resource/Open%20Access%20policy%20effectiveness_A%20briefing%20paper%20for%20research%20institutions.pdf</a></div>