Your right to make your work open access: cOAlition S, Wellcome and UKRI

"Publishers often require an embargo period of 6, 12 or even 24 months before your accepted manuscript can be made open access from a repository like White Rose Research Online.

Many researchers don't think this is right or fair, either to you, or to society. It is your work after all and you should have the right to share it as you choose, for the benefit of all.

The Rights Retention Strategy developed by cOAlition S helps researchers retain sufficient rights to their own work so they can make it immediately open access from a repository without an embargo period. It has been adopted in some form by funders including The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well as the Wellcome Trust, UKRI and the European Union...."