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In the present subsection, we are going to highlight whether OA policies adopted by Italian universities apply those OA schemes which are generally depicted as the most effective in promoting Open Access.  In order to do that, we will preliminarily investigate what OA policy schemes are mainly recommended in order to foster and increase Open Access.  The \textit{“iron law of default inertia”} (Giglia and Morando) \cite{giglia2011diritto}  has a power which should not be underestimated \cite{shieber2013good}. It is for that reason that policies implementing an Open-Access-by-default regime are strongly recommended (SUBER-SHIEBER; FRANKEL; SWAN; EU Guidelines on OA, p. 4). Please note, as a preliminary remark, that for an Open-Access-by-default scheme to be fruitful, a particular regime is required also for what concerns the deposit which precedes the Open Access: it should in fact be mandatory and non-waivable. However, as we are going to deal with deposit \textit{infra} (§ …), we do not deepen that theme by now.  OA policies implementing Open-Access-by-default show to be effective even when accompanied by an opt-out option: \textit{“[T]he experience at every school with a waiver option is that the waiver rate is low. At both Harvard and MIT it’s below 5 percent”}, state Shieber and Suber (SUBER-SHIEBER, p. 13). Even the recommendations formulated for the ten years from the Budapest Open Access Initiative – whose motto, by the way, significantly was \textit{“setting the default to open”} (10BOAI) – left to policy-makers the choice between granting or not an OA waiver to faculty (10BOAI, Recommendation 1.1: “\textit{[...] When publishers will not allow OA on the university’s preferred terms, we recommend either of two courses. [...] Or the policy may grant the institution a nonexclusive right to make future faculty research articles OA through the institutional repository (}with or without the option for faculty to waive \textit{this grant of rights for any given publication)”} (emphasis added).), as if it did not weigh on the goals of the Initiative. Again, a recent research enumerated the elements of Open Access policies mainly correlated with policy effectiveness (Swan A, 2015): “Open Access cannot be waived” was not present.