Rights Retention Statement — SCURL

"The Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL), in alignment with their aims to collaborate towards the creation of a co-operative library infrastructure in Scotland, and to provide mutual support for members, supports the adoption of Rights Retention Strategies by SCURL HE Institutions. It is anticipated that SCURL HEIs will develop strategy, underpinned by our position, to facilitate the widest possible access to research. 

Rights retention can be defined as the practice of authors retaining sufficient intellectual property rights to make their author-accepted manuscripts (AAMs) available without embargo and under an open licence, preferably a Creative Common Attribution (CC BY) licence, through an institutional repository...."