The University Management of Freie Universität supports open access in a number of ways. In January 2009, the President of Freie Universität signed the Berliner Declaration (Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities), supported also by important national and international research institutions and funding organizations.

In July 2008, the Academic Senate of Freie Universität Berlin adopted an Open Access Policy (in German).

In 2013, the Executive Board decided to perpetuate the publication fund established with the support of the German Science Foundation (DFG) after the end of the DFG program.