UK Institutional Rights Retention Policies
Stephen J. Eglen 
Introduction
This page contains information about UK universities that have institutional rights retention policies. The raw data underlying these visualisations is available on github along with the code that generates this page. Please also visit a list of similar policies worldwide.
The Open Access Directory has launched a worldwide list of university rights-retention OA policies.
Click on marker and then on Uni name to see their policy. Some cities have multiple pins; zoom-in to see them.
Adding more institutions
If you would like to add new institutions to this page, please email with the name of the institution, URL and start date.
In progress
Rights retention policies expected in the Midland consortium of eight universities.
The Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL) will provide rights retention principles for their institutions.
The GW4 Alliance (Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter) has announced in November 2023 their intention for rights retention policies.
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has a policy live from 2025-01-01; the link for it will be online in due course.
Underlying data
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