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Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory. We now have 170. oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Univ... Spread the word. The world could use many more. #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #OAD #ScholComm

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Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD). We now have 170.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

Spread the word. The world could use many more.

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD). We now have 170.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

Spread the word. The world could use many more.

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD). We now have 170.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

Spread the word. The world could use many more.

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD). We now have 170.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

Spread the word. The world could use many more.

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD). We now have 170.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

Spread the word. The world could use many more.

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026. guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-Aut... #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Yale University Library Resear...

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026. guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-Aut... #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Yale University Library Resear...

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026. guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-Aut... #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Yale University Library Resear...

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026. guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-Aut... #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Yale University Library Resear...

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026. guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-Aut... #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Yale University Library Resear...

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026.
https://guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-AuthorRightsPolicy

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026.
https://guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-AuthorRightsPolicy

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026.
https://guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-AuthorRightsPolicy

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026.
https://guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-AuthorRightsPolicy

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026.
https://guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-AuthorRightsPolicy

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Auftakt gelungen! 🎉

Bei unserem zweitägigen Kick-off-Treffen für die dritte Förderphase in Göttingen kamen Projektbeteiligte zusammen, um die gemeinsame Arbeit für die nächsten Monate auf den Weg zu bringen.

Auf dem Plan standen unter anderem Arbeitsplan & Zusammenarbeit abstimmen und Themen wie #RightsRetention, #OpenAccess für NGOs & Verstetigung der Plattform diskutieren.

Mit viel Energie, klaren nächsten Schritten und Lust auf Zusammenarbeit geht’s jetzt in die Projektphase!

To achieve 100% #OpenAccess, you need to engage with issues on #RightsRetention and #OpenLicences. This is where libraries can provide support. 👇

I applaud the new #StockholmDeclaration for the reform of academic publishing.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251805

It calls for action on four high-level principles, and makes 34 specific recommendations under those four heads. Here are the four:

"(i) Academia should resume control of publishing using non-profit publishing models (e.g. diamond open-access). (ii) Adjust incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity, in a reputation economy where the gaming of publication numbers and citation metrics distorts the perception of academic excellence. (iii) Implement mechanisms to prevent and detect fake publications and fraud which are independent of publishers. (iv) Draft and implement legislations, regulations and policies to increase publishing quality and integrity."

I just signed it and hope you will too. When you sign, you can weigh in separately on each of the 34 specific recommendations.
https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/

#AI #Assessment #DiamondOA #GreenOA #Integrity #Nonprofit #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OpenSource #Publishing #Repositories #RightsRetention #ScholComm

100% #openaccess starts with 100% #RightsRetention and using #OpenLicences. 🔒 Publisher embargoes (up to 36 months) and restrictive CC BY-NC-ND licences contradict many Europe’s OA goals.
💪 Empower your researchers: look to the Rights Retention Helper https://tinyurl.com/4uk2xzu6

Libraries: Advocating for #RightsRetention is key for #OpenAccess. It provides immediate OA/reuse, accelerates OA, and clarifies copyright. Make every article accessible!
💪📚 Use the flashcards: https://tinyurl.com/3385jfhz

Heute informieren unsere Kollegen Marc Lange und Christoph Bruch bei den #OAT25 über aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Session "Aktuelle Rechtsfragen"

📆 17.09.2025: 16:15 - 17:45
📌 Audimax

➡️ Verwertungsgesellschaften und Open Access – ein Widerspruch in sich?

➡️ Rights Retention Strategy – Soll meine Organisation ihre Autor:innen damit unterstützen?

#Rightsretention #OpenAccess

#COAR (@coar_repositories) is exactly right about what's wrong with the #ACS and #IEEE demands that their authors pay them a fee for the right to deposit their accepted author manuscripts (#AAMs) in #OpenAccess #repositories.
https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/unfair-publisher-fees-for-deposit-into-repositories-highlight-the-need-for-authors-to-exercise-their-rights/

<blockquote>
* The charges applied are completely arbitrary and not based on any real service provision (for example, IEEE applies a fee to authors who want to apply a CC-BY licence to their AAM; and ACM applies a fee for removing the embargo period). They are just another funding stream for publishers that are already making huge profits.
* Deposit fees disadvantage authors who do not have funding to pay
* These fees amount to #DoubleDipping since the final published version of the AAM is made available behind a paywall with no discount
* This practice prevents universities and research organisations from creating an accessible record of their scholarly output.
</blockquote>

And COAR is exactly right about the solution: author #RightsRetention. When authors retain key rights, they don't need publisher permission to deposit their works in OA repositories -- or to use and reuse them in other important ways as well.

PS: See my similar argument on a related ACS move last year.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/112688754504974477

#Publishers #Copyright #ScholComm

Kudos to #Canada's three major research-funding agencies for their draft all-green, zero-embargo, rights-retention #OpenAccess policy.
https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/interagency-research-funding/policies-and-guidelines/open-access/draft-revised-tri-agency-open-access-policy-publications

The agencies are the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (#CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (#NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (#SSHRC) — sometimes known collectively as the #TriAgency.

#Copyright #Embargoes #GreenOA #OpenLicenses #RightsRetention

Kudos to #Canada's three major research-funding agencies for their draft all-green, zero-embargo, rights-retention #OpenAccess policy.
https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/interagency-research-funding/policies-and-guidelines/open-access/draft-revised-tri-agency-open-access-policy-publications

The agencies are the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (#CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (#NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (#SSHRC) — sometimes known collectively as the #TriAgency.

#Copyright #Embargoes #GreenOA #OpenLicenses #RightsRetention

Kudos to #Canada's three major research-funding agencies for their draft all-green, zero-embargo, rights-retention #OpenAccess policy.
https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/interagency-research-funding/policies-and-guidelines/open-access/draft-revised-tri-agency-open-access-policy-publications

The agencies are the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (#CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (#NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (#SSHRC) — sometimes known collectively as the #TriAgency.

#Copyright #Embargoes #GreenOA #OpenLicenses #RightsRetention

Kudos to #Canada's three major research-funding agencies for their draft all-green, zero-embargo, rights-retention #OpenAccess policy.
https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/interagency-research-funding/policies-and-guidelines/open-access/draft-revised-tri-agency-open-access-policy-publications

The agencies are the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (#CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (#NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (#SSHRC) — sometimes known collectively as the #TriAgency.

#Copyright #Embargoes #GreenOA #OpenLicenses #RightsRetention

Kudos to #Canada's three major research-funding agencies for their draft all-green, zero-embargo, rights-retention #OpenAccess policy.
https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/interagency-research-funding/policies-and-guidelines/open-access/draft-revised-tri-agency-open-access-policy-publications

The agencies are the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (#CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (#NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (#SSHRC) — sometimes known collectively as the #TriAgency.

#Copyright #Embargoes #GreenOA #OpenLicenses #RightsRetention

Super interesting 4-year tender... 👀

https://bidstats.uk/tenders/2025/W07/840565060

Manchester Open Research Environment, advancing the University's green open access (OA) strategy - Request for Information

#OpenAccess #RightsRetention #GreenOA #Repositories

❗Publishers & editors of scholarly journals! Deepen your understanding of #RetainYourRights with this #OpenEducationalResource #OER ’Rights and #OpenLicensing in scholarly publishing’ from Project Retain: https://zenodo.org/records/14831606 #RightsRetention #KnowledgeRights21

❗Publishers & editors of scholarly journals! Deepen your understanding of #RetainYourRights with this #OpenEducationalResource #OER ’Rights and #OpenLicensing in scholarly publishing’ from Project Retain: https://zenodo.org/records/14831606 #RightsRetention #KnowledgeRights21

❗Publishers & editors of scholarly journals! Deepen your understanding of #RetainYourRights with this #OpenEducationalResource #OER ’Rights and #OpenLicensing in scholarly publishing’ from Project Retain: https://zenodo.org/records/14831606 #RightsRetention #KnowledgeRights21

❗Publishers & editors of scholarly journals! Deepen your understanding of #RetainYourRights with this #OpenEducationalResource #OER ’Rights and #OpenLicensing in scholarly publishing’ from Project Retain: https://zenodo.org/records/14831606 #RightsRetention #KnowledgeRights21

❗Publishers & editors of scholarly journals! Deepen your understanding of #RetainYourRights with this #OpenEducationalResource #OER ’Rights and #OpenLicensing in scholarly publishing’ from Project Retain: https://zenodo.org/records/14831606 #RightsRetention #KnowledgeRights21

✅ All stakeholders benefit from having a #RightsRetention policy! Collaborative initiatives bring stakeholders & institutions together to ensure researchers are informed & supported to implement #RetainYourRights

✅ Help authors know & manage their rights! Institutions can support you through policy development and implementation

✅ Ensure authors and research institutions retain their rights to their worky. This policy helps them become the rightsholder 2/2

❗National policymakers: Developing a national #RightsRetention or Secondary Publishing Rights policy can take years, so act now by encouraging institutional RR policy to reap the benefits. #RetainYourRights #KnowledgeRights21 #openaccess https://knowledgerights21.org/retainyourrights
Follow to find out the benefits of having a #RightsRetention policy 🧵1/2

⏩ #RightsRetention policies are an important tool for helping research institutions accelerate retention of rights by institutions or their researchers and ensure #OpenAccess to their work. #RetainYourRights #KnowledgeRights21 https://buff.ly/3PLdWNF

🌍 Join us for "Ten Approaches to #RightsRetention in Europe"—a SPARC Europe under #KnowledgeRights21! Discover #RetainYourRights approaches in 10 countries based on extensive research.
Register now 👉 https://buff.ly/40zRex4
📅 20 February 2025
⏰ 13.00-14.30 CET

🚀 Project Retain (part of Knowledge Rights 21 programme) works to help authors keep the rights they need to make their work widely accessible and reusable. Take back control of your research! with #RightsRetention policies. Join the movement: https://buff.ly/3PLdWNF #RetainYourRights #OpenAccess

@hannaSH @mizoraman @jeroenbosman @brembs @HeidiSeibold @carlmalamud @openscience @[email protected] @[email protected] @omshivaprakash @shrini @sortee

Here's the guide Hanna mentioned above:

Good practices for university open-access policies
http://bit.ly/goodoa

It focuses on #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies. I've worked with many institutions to adopt such policies and would be happy to work with others.

SKitch community feeling the pressure from the rising threat of green OA & rights retention. Launch the FUD-strategy! Deploy!

#SKDR #RightsRetention #OpenAccess

Kudos to the London School of Economics & Political Science (#LSE) for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy.
https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/Services/Policies-and-procedures/Assets/Documents/opeAccPub.pdf

#Academia #Copyright #Universities
@academicchatter
@openscience

Good to see "Don't Publish with IEEE (2005)" trending at Hacker News today.

Particularly interesting/relevant in the 2024 context of the rise of rights retention policies in the UK, and the Federal Purpose License in the U.S. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41912625

#RightsRetention #Copyright #OpenAccess

Kudos to the U of Essex (@uni_of_essex) for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy.
https://www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2024/09/18/author-rights-retention-policy

To follow progress on these policies, see the steadily growing list at the #OpenAccessDirectory.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

#Academia #Copyright #HigherEd #Universities
@academicchatter
@openscience

Surely research on vaccinations, and government funded research at that should be made immediately open access? It's a field-day for anti-vaxxers if you keep this behind a paywall. So frustrating.

I fear what widespread institutional rights retention policies in the UK will reveal is that academics don't know &/or don't care about providing the public access to their research 🙃

[i.e. we can't just put all the blame on paywall-based publishers]

#OpenAccess #RightsRetention

The thing that really scares me about rights retention... is what it will reveal.

Rights retention gives academic authors the power (fully legally) to make their author accepted manuscript openly available online at a repository, IF they choose to upload it.

The scary thing I'm seeing with institutional rights retention policies right now is... authors having the power & potential... and NOT using it.

#OpenAccess #RightsRetention

Great to see NHMRC (Australia) funded researchers using the rights retention strategy:

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2023-107977

"Adam Culvenor is the recipient of a NHMRC of Australia Investigator Grant (GNT2008523). For the purposes of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission."

#RightsRetention #Australia

Kudos to the U of Derby (@derbyuni) for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy. The policy will take effect on October 1, 2024.
https://libguides.derby.ac.uk/openaccess/rrs

h/t @sallyrumsey

For a comprehensive and growing collection of similar policies, see the list at the #OpenAccessDirectory.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

#Academia #Copyright #Universities
@academicchatter
@openscience

Kudos to the U of Essex for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy.
https://library.essex.ac.uk/open-research/author-rights-retention

h/t @sje

See the #OpenAccessDirectory's growing list of universities with rights-retention OA policies.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

The American Chemical Society (#ACS) is proud of a new business model for #hybrid #journals. Payor institutions get "full reading access" & their authors get the right make their ACS articles #GreenOA without #embargoes.
https://www.acs.org/pressroom/newsreleases/2024/june/acs-publications-and-french-consortium-together-support-open-access-publishing.html

PS: This is not a good deal. It asks universities to pay for the right to ensure unembargoed green OA. But rights-retaining #authors & #universities already have this right. Another argument for #RightsRetention.

#Copyright #ScholComm