Unlocking public access: are secondary publishing rights the answer? – The Publication Plan for everyone interested in medical writing, the development of medical publications, and publication planning

"Canada’s federal research granting agencies have announced a review of the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications, aiming to fully embrace open access by 2025, Brianne Selman and Mark Swartz report for The Conversation UK. This planned update to the Copyright Act would require that agency-funded journal articles are made freely available upon publication, without the current 12-month embargo period.

Immediate open access could be achieved by adopting secondary publishing rights. This would enable researchers to share their findings on institutional repositories, personal websites, or other platforms, regardless of institutional affiliations, subscription fees, or the payment of article processing charges of open access journals...."