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by bo1024 3740 days ago
Harvard has an open-access policy[1] and it may be that other institutions do as well. When submitting to a journal with a copyright agreement, authors attach a modification to the agreement, giving the university rights to distribute the research for non-commercial purposes. I do not know how universally-used this is across the institution or if there are journals refusing to accept this modification or not.

[1] https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/