As part of a push to further support researchers in Open Access publishing, UNL has agreed to warrant legal and financial support for authors who provide Open Access to their publications funded by organizations part of cOAlition S with the use of the Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) – a Plan S-compliant Green Open Access route. This means that researchers affiliated with Dutch universities that cannot make use of the Gold Open Access option or a Read & Publish agreement, can use the RRS route while having support on a national level.
Funders that are part of cOAlition S, such as NWO and ZonMw, require immediate Open Access with a CC-BY license to all peer-reviewed scholarly publications. In order to comply with these funder mandates, researchers have three options:
Use one of the nationally negotiated Read & Publish Agreements;
Publish in an Open Access venue and pay from their own grant or department budgets;
Use the Rights Retention Strategy.
Publishers commonly require authors to sign exclusive publishing agreements which restrict what authors can do with their research findings, including making articles Open Access in line with their funders’ requirements. For this reason, cOAlition S developed the RRS.
The RRS enables researchers to retain sufficient intellectual ownership rights on their work to make the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) Open Access at the time of publication (without embargo) with a CC-BY license or equivalent. The RRS allows authors to share their work immediately and under a CC-BY license, even if the publisher has placed restrictions on the sharing of the work. In order to make use of the RRS, researchers must indicate to the publisher upon submission of publication that they are bound by a ‘previous contract’ from a funder.
Frequently Asked Questions
The UKB Working Group Open Access has developed a guiding FAQ with the aim to support researchers at Dutch universities complying with the Open Access requirements of Plan S and willing to make use of the RRS.
- More information
For more information, please go to Right Retention Strategy or contact openaccess.library@eur.nl.