Retention

Image via flickr Introduction This two-part blog post is aiming to explain what Rights Retention is and how it works in practice. In the first part, I’ll explain the forces at play in the publishing industry, why copyright ownership in academia is so important and how the publishing process works. These are technicalities that must … Read more

Image via flickr Rights Retention Strategy Plan S is innovative, ambitious and unsurprisingly complex. Rights retention represents just a part of Plan S. Rights retention was developed as a strategy for compliance with the funder’s requirements by retaining some of the economic rights granted by copyright. It was not intended to be a strategy for … Read more