Harvard and the University of California already have done this.  I am not sure how widespread it is.<p>&quot;In 2008, Harvard&#x27;s Faculty of Arts &amp; Sciences voted unanimously to give the University a nonexclusive, irrevocable right to distribute their scholarly articles for any non-commercial purpose. In the years since, the remaining eight Harvard schools voted similar open-access (OA) policies; as of late 2015, three research centers have joined their number.&quot; [1]<p>&quot;The University of California is committed to disseminating its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In particular, as a public university system, the University of California is dedicated to making its scholarship available to the people of California. Furthermore, the University of California recognizes the benefits that accrue to its authors as individual scholars and to the scholarly enterprise from such wide dissemination, including greater recognition, more thorough review, consideration, and critique, and a general increase in scientific, scholarly, and critical knowledge. The University of California further recognizes that by such policies, authors of scholarly articles can more easily and collectively reserve rights that might otherwise be signed away, often unnecessarily, in agreements with publishers. To accomplish this, authors take advantage of US copyright law to grant to the University a non-exclusive license (limited to the purpose of making the work openly available) for each scholarly article authored while employed by UC.&quot; [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;osc.hul.harvard.edu&#x2F;policies&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;osc.hul.harvard.edu&#x2F;policies&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;osc.universityofcalifornia.edu&#x2F;open-access-policy&#x2F;policy-text&#x2F;presidential&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;osc.universityofcalifornia.edu&#x2F;open-access-policy&#x2F;pol...</a>