Bypass Embargoes by Providing the World’s Scholars With a Rights-Retention Policy · Scott Jacques

Embargoes are a social injustice that restrict the spread of research, reducing its impact. There is a proven solution: authors adopt a rights-retention policy. Only a small fraction of the world’s scholars are protected by such a policy. For a rights-retention policy to have maximum effect, everyone must be able to adopt it. OADAO can increase OA to scholarly articles by creating and supporting an opt-in rights retention policy for all scholars.