Pillar I: Facilitating development of institutional open access policies through the retention of intellectual property rights
Funds a European effort to help research organisations adopt open-access policies that retain authors’ rights.
Rights retention lets authors or institutions keep sufficient copyright and reuse rights to make scholarly work immediately available under an open licence such as CC BY, regardless of publisher policy. The action should build networks of research organisations, produce practical guidance, tools and training, document lessons and best practice, and design strategies that researchers will approve a…
This Coordination and Support Action helps research-performing organisations across the EU and Associated Countries adopt or expand institutional open-access and rights-retention policies. It should connect policy-makers, funders, libraries and research organisations, account for national legal and policy contexts, and address research assessment, open-access costs and disciplinary differences.
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