Last month the guide to good practices for #university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies (which @pmphlt and I launched in 2012) passed the milestone of 400,000 page views.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Good_practices_for_university_open-access_policies

#Academia
@academicchatter

Kudos to the #OpenScience Working Group at #ConcordiaUniversity for its strong recommendations, including a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy.
https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/992647/1/Open%20Science%20Working%20Group%20-%20Report.pdf

At p. 5: "Concordia should…further the development of copyright support through an institutionally supported
rights retention strategy, which can support green open access and diversify how
research can be made openly accessible."

#Canada #GreenOA #IR #Repositories

@williamgunn
Author #RightsRetention works best when backed by the author's #university, #funder, or #publisher. But there are still some methods within the author's control.
https://bit.ly/MethodsRightsRetention

From @jamie_love: "In science, requirements for getting consent to use copyrighted work [to train #AI] could give #publishers for scientific articles considerable leverage over which companies could use the data, even though most authors are not paid."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-smart-intellectual-property-laws-for-artificial-intelligence/

PS: True, when publishers own the #copyright. But the growing practice of #RightsRetention shifts this power to authors.

Another happy day for followers of #RightsRetention

University of Sussex will launch its institutional copyright policy on October 1st 2023. Read all about it here:

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/documents/publications-and-copyright-policy-1.docx

I just released Methods of Rights Retention, an an #OpenAccess Google doc.
https://bit.ly/MethodsRightsRetention

I wrote it last month and held it for a while to think about what to do with it, for example, move it to my blog or submit it as an article somewhere. But for now I think I'll just release it in this form and consider next steps later.

I hope it's useful. I'd welcome methods, examples, links, or details I might have overlooked.

#Copyright #Licenses #OpenLicenses #RightsRetention

Good news incoming for Imperial as it looks like its #RightsRetention policy is coming some time soon.

https://twitter.com/ChrisBanks/status/1681599793456463872?s=20

Chris Banks has led the UK Scholarly Communications Licence effort for many years. It is wonderful to see her institution, Imperial, will be benefiting from her leadership on this topic.

cc: @neuralreckoning @neuralengine

The #Berlin16 #OpenAccess conference strongly supports author #RightsRetention and #CCBY as the default license. (See p. 5.)
https://oa2020.org/wp-content/uploads/B16-conference-report.pdf

Today's HOT #RightsRetention news isn't anything to do with scientific papers...

... but my daughter has explained the following.

Taylor Swift recorded an album in 2010 called 'Speak Now', owned by her record company.

She has now re-recorded all the songs and released her own version of the album, which she has kept the rights to.

Her new album is released today. Enjoy, Swifties!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_Now_(Taylor%27s_Version)

Thanks to #SPARC_Europe for its excellent new report on #university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies in #Europe.
https://sparceurope.org/what-we-do/open-access/copyright/project-retain/

#Academia
@academicchatter

University of Glasgow is the latest UK university to launch an institutional rights retention policy.

Congratulations Glasgow!

For further details, see: https://sje30.github.io/rrs/rrs.html or go direct to

https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/strategy/ourpolicies/publications-policy/

#RightsRetention

Congratulations to the University of Sussex for announcing they have approved an institutional #RightsRetention policy.

Source: https://twitter.com/Hey_Bethany/status/1669016504661155843?s=20

#DOAJ in numbers!

We index 19367 #journals from 132 countries, covering 80 languages. 13158 don't charge APCs. 12592 don't charge any fees at all. 10784 journals allow authors #rightsretention

https://doaj.org/search/journals

We index 8,899,457 pieces of article metadata.

https://doaj.org/search/articles

#OpenAccess #scholcomm #scholarlycomms #AcademicChatter

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@petersuber 🔗 https://fediscience.org/users/petersuber/statuses/110321921111799759
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This is big. No #embargoes. No #APCs.

"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.

In a move that could send shockwaves through commercial scholarly #publishing, the positions are due to be adopted by the […]"
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-infrastructure-2023-5-eu-ready-to-back-immediate-open-access-without-author-fees/

#Europe #RightsRetention

This is big. No #embargoes. No #APCs.

"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.

In a move that could send shockwaves through commercial scholarly #publishing, the positions are due to be adopted by the Council of the EU member state governments later this month."
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-infrastructure-2023-5-eu-ready-to-back-immediate-open-access-without-author-fees/

#Europe #RightsRetention

@Samuelmoore Is there clarity around the issue of #RightsRetention ?

Kudos to the #Eindhoven University of Technology for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy taking advantage of the secondary publishing rights (#SPR) built into Dutch law.
https://www.tue.nl/universiteit/library/library-for-researchers-and-phds/scientific-publishing/open-access/comply-with-open-access-policies/tue-open-access-policy/open-access-regulation

#academia #copyright
@academicchatter

RT @rmounce
Loving the ARL Comments to the NIH RFI...

"ARL recommends that NIH:

* Provide rights-retention language..."

#RightsRetention #OpenAccess #Crucial

(although I think 'encourages' is too weak, ideally it should be a mandate not mere encouragement)
https://www.arl.org/news/arl-comments-on-nih-plan-to-enhance-public-access-to-results-of-nih-supported-research/

"The Guild supports the Council's recognition that researchers play a crucial role in the academic publishing ecosystem and that their contributions to the well-functioning of research communities should be better recognised in research assessment."
#APCs, #OpenAccess, #RightsRetention, #SecondaryPublishingRights
https://www.the-guild.eu/news/2023/europes-academic-publishing-system-must-become-sustainable-and-equitable.html

The Guild of European
Research-Intensive #Universities opposes #APCs and supports #OpenAccess, #RightsRetention and #secondarypublishingrights.
https://www.the-guild.eu/news/2023/europes-academic-publishing-system-must-become-sustainable-and-equitable.html

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