The '''Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies''' ('''ROARMAP''') is a searchable international registry charting the growth of [[open-access mandatepolicies]]s adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require their researchers to provide [[open access]] to their [[peer review|peer-reviewed]] research article output by depositing it in an open access [[institutional repository|repository]]. ROARMAP was created by [[EPrints]] at [[University of Southampton]] in 2003.<ref>Moskovkin, VM (2008) [http://dspace.bsu.edu.ru/jspui/bitstream/123456789/4853/1/Moskovkin_Institutional%20policies.pdf Institutional policies for open access to the results of scientific research] . ''Scientific and Technical Information Processing''. '''35''' (6) 269–273, {{doi|10.3103/S0147688208060075}}</ref><ref>Sale, AHJ (2007) [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/410/ The patchwork mandate] . ''D-Lib Magazine'', '''13''' (1/2). {{ISSN|1082-9873}}</ref><ref>Manikandan, S; N Isai Vani (2010) "[http://www.jpgmonline.com/article.asp?issn=0022-3859;year=2010;volume=56;issue=2;spage=154;epage=156;aulast=Manikandan Restricting access to publications from funded research: Ethical issues and solutions.]" ''Journal of Postgraduate Medicine'' '''56'''(2): 154–156</ref><ref>Lyons, Charles; H Austin Booth (2010) "An Overview of Open Access in the Fields of Business and Management". ''Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship'' '''16'''(2): 1080124 {{doi|10.1080/08963568.2011.554786}}</ref><ref>Hurrell, A. C. (2012) [http://www.bclabrowser.ca/bcla2/index.php/browser/article/view/390/553 Open access policies on scholarly publishing in the university context]. BCLA Browser: Linking the Library Landscape, 4(3).</ref>
As of October 2015, open-access mandates have been adopted by more than 520 universities and more than 75 research funders worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|title=Browse by Policymaker Type|url=http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/policymaker_type/|website=ROARMAP|accessdate=22 October 2015}}</ref> ROARMAP mandates are classified in terms of strength and effectiveness<ref>Gargouri, Y., Lariviere, V., Gingras, Y., Brody, T., Carr, L., & Harnad, S. (2012). [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.8174 Testing the Finch Hypothesis on Green OA Mandate Ineffectiveness]. arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.8174.</ref> in MELIBEA<ref>[MELIBEA directory and estimator of institutional open-access policies http://www.accesoabierto.net/politicas/default.php ]</ref>
