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Rights Retention is a funder-led initiative to enable researchers to publish in subscription journals while retaining their right to self-deposit their manuscript in an Open Access repository without an embargo. To facilitate this, a rights retention statement should be added to your manuscript on submission:
For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.”
cOAlition S has made cover letter templates available to authors who wish to seek clarity from publishers on rights retention before peer review.
The University advises researchers to use rights retention on all funded research publications to ensure compliance with funder open access policy. Use of the rights retention text means that you as author have applied a CC BY licence to the accepted manuscript – all you then need to do is submit this to the UWTSD Research Repository. If the CC BY licence is not in place at the time of submission, there is a risk that the paper will not be compliant with funder policy.
The following funders mention rights retention, please see their funder pages for information on their requirements:
Some information on this page has been adapted from the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (CC BY 3.0). Original content at: Rights retention (ox.ac.uk)
