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## The Rights Retention Strategy<br>(for researchers)

<br>

```
Stephen J Eglen                  DAMTP (Applied Maths/Theoretical Physics)
https://sje30.github.io          University of Cambridge
sje30@cam.ac.uk                  @StephenEglen
```

HTML Slides: <https://tiny.one/rrs-be> (CC BY 4.0 license)
<br>

#### Declarations

Affiliate editor of *bioRxiv*; advisory board member at *F1000Research*, *Gigabyte*.

#### Acknowledgements

Laurent Gatto, Ross Mounce, Daniel Nüst, Johan Rooryck, Sally Rumsey.

---

class: highlight-last-item

## The problem

- The emergence of hybrid journals (pay to both read and publish) in
  response to OA mandates has complicated OA.

- Fundamental right for researchers to keep rights to their work,
  rather than sign away copyright to publishers.

<br>

---
class: highlight-last-item

## The rights retention strategy (RRS)

- Add the following text to your manuscript before submission and 
  inform the editor in covering letter of your intention to use the RRS.

> For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY
> public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version
> arising from this submission.

- Upon editorial acceptence of your article, deposit your author
accepted manuscript (AAM) *without embargo* in your institutional
repository.

- See talk on Thursday 14:40-15:00 by Sally Rumsey and Johan Rooryck
  (key advocates of RRS) for further information.

- I've also written a [primer](https://bit.ly/rrs-primer) on the RRS
for researchers.

---
class: highlight-last-item
## Is it working?

- Ross Mounce has curated [over 500 examples](https://github.com/rossmounce/rrs-language-including-outputs/blob/main/RRS-outputs-asof-2021-09-01.csv) of RRS in action over the
  last year:

> https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/observing-the-success-so-far-of-the-rights-retention-strategy/

- Re-use of material on wikipedia

- Use across STEM and HSS

- Adoption by funders

---
class: highlight-last-item
## What's not to like?

- Publishers signed an open letter concerned about RRS.  Much is made
by publishers of the "hallowed status" of the VOR. e.g. it is referred
to as ["the foundation of the scientific
record"](https://ioppublishing.org/signatories_publish_statement_on_rights_retention_strategy/).

- OA advocates [Shina Caroline Lynn
  Kamerlin](http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.202051568) and [Shaun
  Yon-Seng Khoo](http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.556) have expressed
  concerns about legal aspects and practicalities.

- [Springer Nature](https://www.springernature.com/gp/advancing-discovery/blog/blogposts/continuing-the-open-access-transition/19045440) are the worst in my view, effectively ignoring
  the RRS at time of submission and requiring an embargo.

- Is the RRS a [Verschlimmbesserung?](https://blogs.transparent.com/german/untranslatable-german-words-verschlimmbesserung/)?

---

class: highlight-last-item
## Who blinks first?

- If you wish to release your AAM under CC BY without embargo (as
required by funders), journal may ask you to sign agreement that
requires an embargo.

- An ethical journal should desk-reject submissions using RRS if it
  conflicts with their workflow, avoiding this situation.

- **Journal blinks first**: author deposits AAM without embargo immediately; VOR
  appears in following months.

- **Author blinks first**: journal gets its way, author might get into trouble
  with funder.

- **No one blinks**: green OA AAM and (paywalled) VOR.  Would publisher
  send a takedown request to author or the institutional repository?
  Nobody knows yet.

- Huge temptation to just sign anything put in front of an author at
  time of acceptance.  Most of us are not lawyers and the need to get
  published usually overrides concerns over ownership...
  
---
## Take back control (Erin Mckiernan)

http://whyopenresearch.org/control

---
class: highlight-last-item
## Summary

1. Encourage all authors to keep their rights to their material (for
   reuse, archival, sharing).

2. Include the RRS in your manuscripts and challenge the system!  Talk
   to us if you face difficulties with a publisher.

3. Other approaches may work (e.g. [LIBER zero
   embargo](https://libereurope.eu/zeroembargo/)).  Belgium already
   has
   [legislation](https://openaccess.be/belgian-open-access-legislation/)
   for sharing AAMs after 6 (STEM) or 12 (HSS) months.

4. If a success, perhaps hybrid journals will disappear.  Push for
   more ethical approaches, like [diamond open
   access](https://libereurope.eu/article/new-report-recommendations-on-open-access-diamond-journals/).

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The Rights Retention Strategy
(for researchers)

Stephen J Eglen                  DAMTP (Applied Maths/Theoretical Physics)
https://sje30.github.io          University of Cambridge
sje30@cam.ac.uk                  @StephenEglen

HTML Slides: https://tiny.one/rrs-be (CC BY 4.0 license)

Declarations

Affiliate editor of bioRxiv; advisory board member at F1000Research, Gigabyte.

Acknowledgements

Laurent Gatto, Ross Mounce, Daniel Nüst, Johan Rooryck, Sally Rumsey.

1 / 8

The problemThe emergence of hybrid journals (pay to both read and publish) in
response to OA mandates has complicated OA.
2 / 8

The problem

The emergence of hybrid journals (pay to both read and publish) in response to OA mandates has complicated OA.
Fundamental right for researchers to keep rights to their work, rather than sign away copyright to publishers.

2 / 8

The problem

The emergence of hybrid journals (pay to both read and publish) in response to OA mandates has complicated OA.
Fundamental right for researchers to keep rights to their work, rather than sign away copyright to publishers.

2 / 8

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

Add the following text to your manuscript before submission and inform the editor in covering letter of your intention to use the RRS.

For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

3 / 8

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

Add the following text to your manuscript before submission and inform the editor in covering letter of your intention to use the RRS.

For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

Upon editorial acceptence of your article, deposit your author accepted manuscript (AAM) without embargo in your institutional repository.

3 / 8

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

Add the following text to your manuscript before submission and inform the editor in covering letter of your intention to use the RRS.

For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

Upon editorial acceptence of your article, deposit your author accepted manuscript (AAM) without embargo in your institutional repository.
See talk on Thursday 14:40-15:00 by Sally Rumsey and Johan Rooryck (key advocates of RRS) for further information.

3 / 8

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

Add the following text to your manuscript before submission and inform the editor in covering letter of your intention to use the RRS.

For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

Upon editorial acceptence of your article, deposit your author accepted manuscript (AAM) without embargo in your institutional repository.
See talk on Thursday 14:40-15:00 by Sally Rumsey and Johan Rooryck (key advocates of RRS) for further information.
I've also written a primer on the RRS for researchers.

3 / 8

Is it working?

Ross Mounce has curated over 500 examples of RRS in action over the last year:

https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/observing-the-success-so-far-of-the-rights-retention-strategy/

4 / 8

Is it working?

Ross Mounce has curated over 500 examples of RRS in action over the last year:

https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/observing-the-success-so-far-of-the-rights-retention-strategy/

Re-use of material on wikipedia

4 / 8

Is it working?

Ross Mounce has curated over 500 examples of RRS in action over the last year:

https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/observing-the-success-so-far-of-the-rights-retention-strategy/

Re-use of material on wikipedia
Use across STEM and HSS

4 / 8

Is it working?

Ross Mounce has curated over 500 examples of RRS in action over the last year:

https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/observing-the-success-so-far-of-the-rights-retention-strategy/

Re-use of material on wikipedia
Use across STEM and HSS
Adoption by funders

4 / 8

What's not to like?

Publishers signed an open letter concerned about RRS. Much is made by publishers of the "hallowed status" of the VOR. e.g. it is referred to as "the foundation of the scientific record".

5 / 8

What's not to like?

Publishers signed an open letter concerned about RRS. Much is made by publishers of the "hallowed status" of the VOR. e.g. it is referred to as "the foundation of the scientific record".
OA advocates Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin and Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo have expressed concerns about legal aspects and practicalities.

5 / 8

What's not to like?

Publishers signed an open letter concerned about RRS. Much is made by publishers of the "hallowed status" of the VOR. e.g. it is referred to as "the foundation of the scientific record".
OA advocates Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin and Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo have expressed concerns about legal aspects and practicalities.
Springer Nature are the worst in my view, effectively ignoring the RRS at time of submission and requiring an embargo.

5 / 8

What's not to like?

Publishers signed an open letter concerned about RRS. Much is made by publishers of the "hallowed status" of the VOR. e.g. it is referred to as "the foundation of the scientific record".
OA advocates Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin and Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo have expressed concerns about legal aspects and practicalities.
Springer Nature are the worst in my view, effectively ignoring the RRS at time of submission and requiring an embargo.
Is the RRS a Verschlimmbesserung??

5 / 8

Who blinks first?If you wish to release your AAM under CC BY without embargo (as
required by funders), journal may ask you to sign agreement that
requires an embargo.
6 / 8

Who blinks first?

If you wish to release your AAM under CC BY without embargo (as required by funders), journal may ask you to sign agreement that requires an embargo.
An ethical journal should desk-reject submissions using RRS if it conflicts with their workflow, avoiding this situation.

6 / 8

Who blinks first?

If you wish to release your AAM under CC BY without embargo (as required by funders), journal may ask you to sign agreement that requires an embargo.
An ethical journal should desk-reject submissions using RRS if it conflicts with their workflow, avoiding this situation.
Journal blinks first: author deposits AAM without embargo immediately; VOR appears in following months.

6 / 8

Who blinks first?

If you wish to release your AAM under CC BY without embargo (as required by funders), journal may ask you to sign agreement that requires an embargo.
An ethical journal should desk-reject submissions using RRS if it conflicts with their workflow, avoiding this situation.
Journal blinks first: author deposits AAM without embargo immediately; VOR appears in following months.
Author blinks first: journal gets its way, author might get into trouble with funder.

6 / 8

Who blinks first?

If you wish to release your AAM under CC BY without embargo (as required by funders), journal may ask you to sign agreement that requires an embargo.
An ethical journal should desk-reject submissions using RRS if it conflicts with their workflow, avoiding this situation.
Journal blinks first: author deposits AAM without embargo immediately; VOR appears in following months.
Author blinks first: journal gets its way, author might get into trouble with funder.
No one blinks: green OA AAM and (paywalled) VOR. Would publisher send a takedown request to author or the institutional repository? Nobody knows yet.

6 / 8

Who blinks first?

If you wish to release your AAM under CC BY without embargo (as required by funders), journal may ask you to sign agreement that requires an embargo.
An ethical journal should desk-reject submissions using RRS if it conflicts with their workflow, avoiding this situation.
Journal blinks first: author deposits AAM without embargo immediately; VOR appears in following months.
Author blinks first: journal gets its way, author might get into trouble with funder.
No one blinks: green OA AAM and (paywalled) VOR. Would publisher send a takedown request to author or the institutional repository? Nobody knows yet.
Huge temptation to just sign anything put in front of an author at time of acceptance. Most of us are not lawyers and the need to get published usually overrides concerns over ownership...

6 / 8

Take back control (Erin Mckiernan)

http://whyopenresearch.org/control

7 / 8

SummaryEncourage all authors to keep their rights to their material (for
reuse, archival, sharing).
8 / 8

Summary

Encourage all authors to keep their rights to their material (for reuse, archival, sharing).
Include the RRS in your manuscripts and challenge the system! Talk to us if you face difficulties with a publisher.

8 / 8

Summary

Encourage all authors to keep their rights to their material (for reuse, archival, sharing).
Include the RRS in your manuscripts and challenge the system! Talk to us if you face difficulties with a publisher.
Other approaches may work (e.g. LIBER zero embargo). Belgium already has legislation for sharing AAMs after 6 (STEM) or 12 (HSS) months.

8 / 8

Summary

Encourage all authors to keep their rights to their material (for reuse, archival, sharing).
Include the RRS in your manuscripts and challenge the system! Talk to us if you face difficulties with a publisher.
Other approaches may work (e.g. LIBER zero embargo). Belgium already has legislation for sharing AAMs after 6 (STEM) or 12 (HSS) months.
If a success, perhaps hybrid journals will disappear. Push for more ethical approaches, like diamond open access.

8 / 8

The problemThe emergence of hybrid journals (pay to both read and publish) in
response to OA mandates has complicated OA.
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The Rights Retention Strategy
(for researchers)

Stephen J Eglen                  DAMTP (Applied Maths/Theoretical Physics)
https://sje30.github.io          University of Cambridge
sje30@cam.ac.uk                  @StephenEglen

HTML Slides: https://tiny.one/rrs-be (CC BY 4.0 license)

Declarations

Affiliate editor of bioRxiv; advisory board member at F1000Research, Gigabyte.

Acknowledgements

Laurent Gatto, Ross Mounce, Daniel Nüst, Johan Rooryck, Sally Rumsey.

1 / 8

The problemThe emergence of hybrid journals (pay to both read and publish) in
response to OA mandates has complicated OA.
2 / 8

The problem

The emergence of hybrid journals (pay to both read and publish) in response to OA mandates has complicated OA.
Fundamental right for researchers to keep rights to their work, rather than sign away copyright to publishers.

2 / 8

The problem

The emergence of hybrid journals (pay to both read and publish) in response to OA mandates has complicated OA.
Fundamental right for researchers to keep rights to their work, rather than sign away copyright to publishers.

2 / 8

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

Add the following text to your manuscript before submission and inform the editor in covering letter of your intention to use the RRS.

For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

3 / 8

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

Add the following text to your manuscript before submission and inform the editor in covering letter of your intention to use the RRS.

For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

Upon editorial acceptence of your article, deposit your author accepted manuscript (AAM) without embargo in your institutional repository.

3 / 8

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

Add the following text to your manuscript before submission and inform the editor in covering letter of your intention to use the RRS.

For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

Upon editorial acceptence of your article, deposit your author accepted manuscript (AAM) without embargo in your institutional repository.
See talk on Thursday 14:40-15:00 by Sally Rumsey and Johan Rooryck (key advocates of RRS) for further information.

3 / 8

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

Add the following text to your manuscript before submission and inform the editor in covering letter of your intention to use the RRS.

For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

Upon editorial acceptence of your article, deposit your author accepted manuscript (AAM) without embargo in your institutional repository.
See talk on Thursday 14:40-15:00 by Sally Rumsey and Johan Rooryck (key advocates of RRS) for further information.
I've also written a primer on the RRS for researchers.

3 / 8

Is it working?

Ross Mounce has curated over 500 examples of RRS in action over the last year:

https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/observing-the-success-so-far-of-the-rights-retention-strategy/

4 / 8

Is it working?

Ross Mounce has curated over 500 examples of RRS in action over the last year:

https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/observing-the-success-so-far-of-the-rights-retention-strategy/

Re-use of material on wikipedia

4 / 8

Is it working?

Ross Mounce has curated over 500 examples of RRS in action over the last year:

https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/observing-the-success-so-far-of-the-rights-retention-strategy/

Re-use of material on wikipedia
Use across STEM and HSS

4 / 8

Is it working?

Ross Mounce has curated over 500 examples of RRS in action over the last year:

https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/observing-the-success-so-far-of-the-rights-retention-strategy/

Re-use of material on wikipedia
Use across STEM and HSS
Adoption by funders

4 / 8

What's not to like?

Publishers signed an open letter concerned about RRS. Much is made by publishers of the "hallowed status" of the VOR. e.g. it is referred to as "the foundation of the scientific record".

5 / 8

What's not to like?

Publishers signed an open letter concerned about RRS. Much is made by publishers of the "hallowed status" of the VOR. e.g. it is referred to as "the foundation of the scientific record".
OA advocates Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin and Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo have expressed concerns about legal aspects and practicalities.

5 / 8

What's not to like?

Publishers signed an open letter concerned about RRS. Much is made by publishers of the "hallowed status" of the VOR. e.g. it is referred to as "the foundation of the scientific record".
OA advocates Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin and Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo have expressed concerns about legal aspects and practicalities.
Springer Nature are the worst in my view, effectively ignoring the RRS at time of submission and requiring an embargo.

5 / 8

What's not to like?

Publishers signed an open letter concerned about RRS. Much is made by publishers of the "hallowed status" of the VOR. e.g. it is referred to as "the foundation of the scientific record".
OA advocates Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin and Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo have expressed concerns about legal aspects and practicalities.
Springer Nature are the worst in my view, effectively ignoring the RRS at time of submission and requiring an embargo.
Is the RRS a Verschlimmbesserung??

5 / 8

Who blinks first?If you wish to release your AAM under CC BY without embargo (as
required by funders), journal may ask you to sign agreement that
requires an embargo.
6 / 8

Who blinks first?

If you wish to release your AAM under CC BY without embargo (as required by funders), journal may ask you to sign agreement that requires an embargo.
An ethical journal should desk-reject submissions using RRS if it conflicts with their workflow, avoiding this situation.

6 / 8

Who blinks first?

If you wish to release your AAM under CC BY without embargo (as required by funders), journal may ask you to sign agreement that requires an embargo.
An ethical journal should desk-reject submissions using RRS if it conflicts with their workflow, avoiding this situation.
Journal blinks first: author deposits AAM without embargo immediately; VOR appears in following months.

6 / 8

Who blinks first?

If you wish to release your AAM under CC BY without embargo (as required by funders), journal may ask you to sign agreement that requires an embargo.
An ethical journal should desk-reject submissions using RRS if it conflicts with their workflow, avoiding this situation.
Journal blinks first: author deposits AAM without embargo immediately; VOR appears in following months.
Author blinks first: journal gets its way, author might get into trouble with funder.

6 / 8

Who blinks first?

If you wish to release your AAM under CC BY without embargo (as required by funders), journal may ask you to sign agreement that requires an embargo.
An ethical journal should desk-reject submissions using RRS if it conflicts with their workflow, avoiding this situation.
Journal blinks first: author deposits AAM without embargo immediately; VOR appears in following months.
Author blinks first: journal gets its way, author might get into trouble with funder.
No one blinks: green OA AAM and (paywalled) VOR. Would publisher send a takedown request to author or the institutional repository? Nobody knows yet.

6 / 8

Who blinks first?

If you wish to release your AAM under CC BY without embargo (as required by funders), journal may ask you to sign agreement that requires an embargo.
An ethical journal should desk-reject submissions using RRS if it conflicts with their workflow, avoiding this situation.
Journal blinks first: author deposits AAM without embargo immediately; VOR appears in following months.
Author blinks first: journal gets its way, author might get into trouble with funder.
No one blinks: green OA AAM and (paywalled) VOR. Would publisher send a takedown request to author or the institutional repository? Nobody knows yet.
Huge temptation to just sign anything put in front of an author at time of acceptance. Most of us are not lawyers and the need to get published usually overrides concerns over ownership...

6 / 8

Take back control (Erin Mckiernan)

http://whyopenresearch.org/control

7 / 8

SummaryEncourage all authors to keep their rights to their material (for
reuse, archival, sharing).
8 / 8

Summary

Encourage all authors to keep their rights to their material (for reuse, archival, sharing).
Include the RRS in your manuscripts and challenge the system! Talk to us if you face difficulties with a publisher.

8 / 8

Summary

Encourage all authors to keep their rights to their material (for reuse, archival, sharing).
Include the RRS in your manuscripts and challenge the system! Talk to us if you face difficulties with a publisher.
Other approaches may work (e.g. LIBER zero embargo). Belgium already has legislation for sharing AAMs after 6 (STEM) or 12 (HSS) months.

8 / 8

Summary

Encourage all authors to keep their rights to their material (for reuse, archival, sharing).
Include the RRS in your manuscripts and challenge the system! Talk to us if you face difficulties with a publisher.
Other approaches may work (e.g. LIBER zero embargo). Belgium already has legislation for sharing AAMs after 6 (STEM) or 12 (HSS) months.
If a success, perhaps hybrid journals will disappear. Push for more ethical approaches, like diamond open access.

8 / 8

The Rights Retention Strategy(for researchers)

Declarations

Acknowledgements

The problem

The problem

The problem

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

Is it working?

Is it working?

Is it working?

Is it working?

What's not to like?

What's not to like?

What's not to like?

What's not to like?

Who blinks first?

Who blinks first?

Who blinks first?

Who blinks first?

Who blinks first?

Who blinks first?

Take back control (Erin Mckiernan)

Summary

Summary

Summary

Summary

The problem

Help

rrs-be.knit

The Rights Retention Strategy(for researchers)

Declarations

Acknowledgements

The problem

The problem

The problem

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

The rights retention strategy (RRS)

Is it working?

Is it working?

Is it working?

Is it working?

What's not to like?

What's not to like?

What's not to like?

What's not to like?

Who blinks first?

Who blinks first?

Who blinks first?

Who blinks first?

Who blinks first?

Who blinks first?

Take back control (Erin Mckiernan)

Summary

Summary

Summary

Summary

The Rights Retention Strategy
(for researchers)

The Rights Retention Strategy
(for researchers)