#rightsretention — Public Fediverse posts

Kudos to #Canada for the excellent new Tri-Agency #OpenAccess Policy on Publications. It upgrades and strengthens the 2015 policy, and applies to grants awarded on or after January 1, 2027.
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/science/en/interagency-research-funding/policies-and-guidelines/open-access/tri-agency-open-access-policy-publications-2026

It requires:
* Unembargoed #GreenOA
* Open licenses, preferably CC-BY
* Rights retention strong enough to cover the open license

#Copyright #Embargoes #Repositories #RightsRetention #ScholComm

⏰ Last call! The 11th European Rights Retention Community of Practice meeting is happening in less than a week, on Thursday, 8 October 2026, 12:00–13:30 CEST.
🔍 The session focuses on national rights retention progress in Norway and Spain, featuring:
🎙️ Aysa Ekanger & Bror-Magnus S. Strand (Tromsø, Norway)
🎙️ Ignasi Labastida (Barcelona, Spain)
👉 Last minute registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/xqRymVfqQtSasQxS2MzObw
#RightsRetention #OpenAccess #ScholarlyCommunication

⏰ Reminder! Don't miss the 11th European Rights Retention Community of Practice meeting on Thursday, 8 October 2026, 12:00–13:30 CEST.

🔍 The session focuses on national rights retention progress in Norway and Spain, featuring:

🎙️ @aysaekanger & Bror-Magnus S. Strand (Tromsø, Norway)
🎙️ @ilabastida (Barcelona, Spain)

👉 Register now: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/xqRymVfqQtSasQxS2MzObw

#RightsRetention #OpenAccess #ScholarlyCommunication

🤝 Our European #RightsRetention Community of Practice is back today for its 10th session, diving into #OpenScience & rights retention for academic freedom
📅 9 July, 12:00–13:30 CEST
⏰ Last-minute sign-ups: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Fc4DnzrISqu6pz9he8Xgrw
📩 Join the community of practice and never miss a meeting: https://mailchi.mp/01f7cca13388/european-rights-retention-cop-registration

100+ practitioners have already registered – will you join them? 🎓

The 10th European #RightsRetention Community of Practice:
📅 Tuesday, 9 July 2026 | 12:00–13:30 CEST
🔍 Topic: Rights Retention and Academic Freedom

Don't miss out 👉 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Fc4DnzrISqu6pz9he8Xgrw

#OpenAccess #AcademicFreedom #OpenScience #ProjectRetain #KnowledgeRights21 #KR21

⏰ Reminder: register today for the 10th European Rights Retention Community of Practice

📅 Tuesday, 9 July 2026 | 12:00–13:30 CEST
🔍 Topic: Rights Retention and Academic Freedom

Join Ana Lazarova, Lionel Maurel, and Sam Moore for thought-provoking conversation at the intersection of open access and academic freedom.

👉 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Fc4DnzrISqu6pz9he8Xgrw

#RightsRetention #OpenAccess #AcademicFreedom

🇪🇸 ¡Ahora en español!

Thanks to our colleagues of the Repository Group at the Spanish University and Scientific Libraries Network (REBIUN), two Project Retain resources are now available in Spanish:

📄 Construyendo puentes hacia el acceso abierto
🎓 Retain OER. Políticas de Retención de Derechos

Both are part of our Rights Retention Helper 👉 https://sparceurope.org/rights-retention-helper/

#OpenAccess #RightsRetention #ProjectRetain #OpenScience

my prediction...

2027 is going to be a year where UK-based academics learn a lot more about copyright and their rights.

#RightsRetention

1.) The University of Nottingham has divested from big deal packages with five major publishers https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2026-5-university-of-nottingham-drops-five-publishing-deals/

2.) The University of Nottingham also has an institutional rights retention policy https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Governance/Documents/Open-Access-Publications-Policy.pdf (PDF)

I shall watch with great interest...

HT @mpe

#RightsRetention #GreenOA

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

University rights-retention OA...

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

University rights-retention OA...

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.
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!

What are the differences between #RightsRetention and #SecondaryPublishingRight? Both help achieve #OpenAccess, but the mechanisms differ. #OA100
🎓💪 Librarians: Your authors and institutional leaders need you to clarify this distinction!

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

🇮🇹 Italy #Rights2Pub project explores Secondary Publishing Rights and Author’s #RightsRetention as tools to promote Open Science, enabling authors to disseminate their work through informed management of the rights to their works. 👉Read the report: https://tinyurl.com/3trxctct
5/6

Following up! The push for #RightsRetention is gaining strong traction across Europe. The movement is global, but the strategy is local. 👉Start looking at these 10 case studies https://zenodo.org/records/15078315
Here are some of the national approaches to Rights Retention (RR) and #OpenLicences:👇🧵
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🇸🇮Slovenia adopted #RightsRetention into law: “Copyright in scientific publications may only be transferred to third parties on a non-exclusive basis by the authors of the scientific publications or by their employers where the rights are transferred to them” 👉Decree: https://tinyurl.com/4s388ap4
2/6

#RightsRetention is spreading! 🌍 The UK🇬🇧leads, but institutions in other countries are adopting RR in their policies or actively analysing their approaches to RR to achieve #OA100. We'll share examples tomorrow! 👀
Which country is next? Share your thoughts👇

📈 Success stories: #RightsRetention is already proving its worth. It helps institutions like UiT to reach as high as 96% OA compliance for journal articles 👉 Report: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15078315

⚖️Equal access to publishing opportunities: It's your tool to counter publisher obstacles like high APCs and lengthy embargoes #ZeroEmbargo

🧩 Legislative alignment: #RightsRetention doesn't act alone; it reinforces and aligns perfectly with broader legal reforms, such as #SecondaryPublishingRight 2/2

#RightsRetention is a tool that helps institutions to manage their research outputs, making them immediately #OpenAccess. It's not just policy, it's power. What steps are needed to implement RR at your institution? Share your thoughts! #RetainYourRights #OA100

🔒 Institutional strength: institutional #RightsRetention policies lift responsibility from individual authors, and support them in fulfilling funders' requirements.

🧵1/2

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

Librarians, let's talk rights retention and open licences this week. 📣
#RightsRetention is a key policy tool for achieving 100% open access immediately. Just knowledge, shared. See the card 👇

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

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

✅ 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 Case Western Reserve (@cwru, #cwru) for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy.
https://thedaily.case.edu/cwru-faculty-senate-approves-open-access-policy/

#Academia #Copyright
@academicchatter
@openscience

Lovely to see authors electing to make use of institutional rights retention policies, to make their work open access WITHOUT paying shitty APCs.

Today I found this one deposited at the Cambridge repository where it is open & CC BY, whilst the publisher version is paywalled.

The author doing this wasn't even the corresponding author - no corresponding author 'games' required with rights retention!

Repo-version: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/91958fe3-eda5-440e-9d48-a399d9cbe2a4

#OpenAccess #RightsRetention