The documents linked below articulate Carnegie Mellon University's strong position on openness. The first three are CMU documents. The others are international statements or declarations to which CMU is a signatory.

Faculty Senate Resolution on Open Access – November 2007

Faculty Senate Resolution on a Central Repository – December 2008

Guidelines on Author Rights and Preservation – November 2012

Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Statement About Embargoes – June 2014 

FORCE11 Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles – June 2014   

COAR Statement Against Elsevier’s Sharing Policy – June 2015 

Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age – June 2015

Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines – July 2015 

Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development – August 2015