Tom StaffordUniversity of Sheffield adopts "rights retention" policy for journal articles - ensuring all research published by us is freely available immediately upon the point of publication, no embargo, regardless of journal policies and paywalls.
Relevant to your interests @sje ?
Another paywalled article about rights retention
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/open-access-accord-weaken-publishers-negotiating-position
"Under a new commitment agreed by members of the N8 Research Partnership, whose institutions include the universities of Manchester and Sheffield, researchers will be urged to retain their intellectual property (IP) rights, rather than sign them over to publishers."
N8 Research Partnership stands up for researchers with new Rights Retention statement https://www.n8research.org.uk/n8-research-partnership-rights-retention-statement/
Launched today, the UK's first consortia statement supporting academic author's rights retention, regardless of publishers' policies = Immediate open access for research articles. #OAwinning
Psychologists! This is the APA position on publishing manuscripts online (as far as I can tell) https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/resources/internet-posting-guidelines
It says you can publish the manuscript, but have to mark it copyright the APA (so no CC-BY, no permission for reuse). This makes it not compliant with funder requirements (e.g. UKRI)
Does anyone know any more about the position of the APA with respect to rights retention?
Stephen EglenThat's too funny.
Good try APA.
I'll see if Cambridge wrote to APA and if they got a reply from APA when informing publishers about rights retention.
Maybe @petersuber might know more about APA's position?
petersuber@sje @tomstafford
Sorry, I don't know more than you've reported. #APA is excluding itself from publishing many authors, e.g. those funded by #UKRI, #Plan_S, and others. The US #OSTP is now asking US federal funders to support reuse, which will have the same effect. Does the APA know this? Is it planning to make itself eligible to publish this large quantity of high-quality research?
Sorry, I don't know more than you've reported. #APA is excluding itself from publishing many authors, e.g. those funded by #UKRI, #Plan_S, and others. The US #OSTP is now asking US federal funders to support reuse, which will have the same effect. Does the APA know this? Is it planning to make itself eligible to publish this large quantity of high-quality research?
indeed. The phrase "turkeys voting for Christmas" comes to mind. I hope APA will drop this copyright line for everyone's benefit.
Hao Ye@petersuber @sje @tomstafford The stated policy also seems unenforceable? AFAIK, authors can post AAM versions and share them CC-BY before copyright transfer, and I don't think APA can retroactively force a change to the copyright line or the license.
Philip N Cohen@philipncohen @hye @petersuber @sje thanks for comments all! Do let me know if APA update their position.