📈 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
This report contains the findings of the Phase Two of Project Retain began in the summer of 2024, building on the work of Phase One, which was completed with the publication of Opening Knowledge: Retaining Rights and Licensing in Europe 2023. This report identifies broad trends and patterns across Europe, considering a wide range of stakeholder groups, to better understand how institutional rights retention policies are developing across ten European countries. The case studies published in this report highlight different approaches and rates of progress, and feature initiatives in Bulgaria, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Serbia, Slovenia, and the UK. Project Retain is led by SPARC Europe as part of The Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) Programme, funded by Arcadia fund (https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/).
Kudos to #ImperialCollegeLondon (#ICL) for its updated, #ZeroEmbargo, #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect Jan 1, 2024.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/oa-policy/
"Imperial is updating its Open Access (OA) policy to allow researchers to make peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings available on an #OA basis without post-publication embargoes…Authors [will] retain their rights to the accepted manuscript by default."
The programme Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) is focused on bringing about changes in legislation and practice across Europe that will strengthen the right of all to knowledge. It is built on a conviction that knowledge is essential for education, innovation and cultural participation, and that everyone should have the possibility - in particular through libraries, archives and digitally - to access and use it.
« European governments should follow the Biden Administration to make publicly funded research outputs freely accessible upon publication.
Pls see our position statement on the need for laws to provide Secondary Publishing Rights.#zeroembargo
@LIBEReurope
https://www.knowledgerights21.org/statement/secondary-publishing-rights-new-position-statement-from-knowledge-rights-21/ »
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The programme Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) is focused on bringing about changes in legislation and practice across Europe that will strengthen the right of all to knowledge. It is built on a conviction that knowledge is essential for education, innovation and cultural participation, and that everyone should have the possibility - in particular through libraries, archives and digitally - to access and use it.
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