The open education agenda at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has been framed holistically: open education resources (OER) have been a central part of a networked vision which has seen them closely aligned with open access, open research, open data, and other open practices. The OpenUCT Initiative (OUI) engaged intensively with both the academic community and university management, operating as a key intermediary in navigating the path to institutionalised open sharing practice. Exploring the continuum between open education and open research, it conceptualised and developed the OpenUCT institutional repository, which has been scoped as a dynamic sharing environment created to reflect and make available the wealth of scholarship produced at UCT. The OUI engaged intensively with both the academic community and university management, operating as a key intermediary in navigating the path to institutionalised open sharing practice. In the more common fashion of open access policies around the world, the policy requires UCT authors to deposit journal articles.