Rights Retention and Secondary Publishing Rights | EIFL

peter.suber's bookmarks 2024-06-27

Summary:

"Rights retention and secondary publishing rights are powerful tools to boost the achievement of open access to research.

Authors (or in some cases, their institutions) hold copyright in the work they produce. When a research manuscript is accepted for publication, the author is deemed to have entered into an agreement with the publisher. A traditional publishing agreement often restricts the immediate sharing and reuse of the work in open access (OA) because it entails either the transfer of copyright or the assignment of rights from the author (or the institution) to the publisher. Rights Retention and a Secondary Publishing Right are two ways to address these practices in support of open science...."

Link:

https://www.eifl.net/page/rights-retention-and-secondary-publishing-rights

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.rights-retention oa.secondary_pub_rights oa.eifl oa.libraries

Date tagged:

06/27/2024, 08:45

Date published:

06/27/2024, 04:45