Open Access (OA) to research publications has received increased attention from the academic community, scientific publishers, research funding agencies and governments. This movement has been growing exponentially in recent years, both in terms of the increasing number of Open Access journals and the proliferation of policies on this topic. The European University Association (EUA), too, has been monitoring developments in Open Access, namely from an institutional perspective. More recently, EUA has published a briefing paper on Open Access to research publications, with an emphasis on European policy developments. The briefing paper also identified some key topics that EUA will continue to monitor and explore, in order to support its membership in the area of Open Access. These topics include business models and costs of Open Access, requirements for self-archiving publications in repositories, peer-review and quality assessment in Open Access, assessing the progress of Open Access and its impact on the advancements of research, as well as implications for key stakeholders (e.g. researchers, institutions, policy-makers, scientific publishers). Following the publication of EUA's briefing paper on Open Access to research publications, a survey addressed to the EUA membership on the topic of Open Access was conducted in the last quarter of 2014. The results of this survey revealed institutions' perceived need for practical guidelines on Open Access implementation. This checklist has therefore been developed with a view to help fulfil this need and to complement EUA's work on Open Access--providing key information on Open Access policies and supporting the development of Open Access in European universities. The Open Access Survey is appended to this report.