ROAR's companion
Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies (ROARMAP) is a searchable international database of policies. It charts the growth of
open access mandates and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require their researchers to provide open access to their
peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access
repository. It was created by EPrints at University of Southampton in 2003. The
Institutional Self-Archiving Policy Registry became the
Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies in 2006, then the
Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies, and then the
Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies around 2014. ROARMAP mandates are classified in terms of strength and effectiveness in MELIBEA As of October 2015, open-access mandates have been adopted by more than 520 universities and more than 75 research funders worldwide. ==References==