{"id":64026,"date":"2024-10-18T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/?p=64026"},"modified":"2024-10-08T14:42:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:42:50","slug":"rights-retention-for-open-access-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/rights-retention-for-open-access-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights retention for open access research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many research funders have adopted a \u2018rights retention\u2019 approach to support open access<\/a>. This aims to ensure researchers retain sufficient reuse rights over their work, to meet open access requirements.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any researcher can follow this approach, whether or not they receive specific funding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the growth of the open access movement, a significant amount of publicly-funded research is still only available via publisher paywalls, which limits access to research and slows down the research cycle. Therefore, researchers and their funders have started to look for other ways to open this research to all.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wherever possible, CCCU signs up for agreements<\/a> that enable our researchers to publish open access in their journal of choice. Unfortunately, not all publishers offer routes to publishing that are aligned with funder requirements, and some existing agreements are unaffordable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, publishers are not automatically entitled to take all rights away from researchers. Researchers have a choice about whether to sign copyright away.\u00a0Retaining researchers\u2019 rights ensures that their work can be made open access through deposit in a repository on acceptance, without embargo.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CCCU open access policy <\/a>states:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/p>\n\u201cAuthors may consider including a rights retention statement when submitting an article for publication. A rights retention statement ensures a Creative Commons (CC BY) licence<\/a> is applied to your accepted manuscript in the repository, and the manuscript will be made available on the repository without embargo.\u201d \u00a0<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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What are the main aims of rights retention for open access?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n