Depositing an accepted manuscript in a repository (green #OpenAccess) is a way to comply with funder mandates, but might not be enough to achieve full #OpenAccess. RIGHTS MUST BE RETAINED.
🔓https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/magazine/rights-retention-and-open-access
Clarifying and helpful article by Peter Suber.
Many institutions have already adopted rights retention strategies in their open access policies.
🏦USA universities are leading the list (am I missing other institutions outside US?)
https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Additional_resources
What if the publisher refuses to accept the addendum?
🪶"Even without the attachment of an addendum, however, the license to Harvard will still have force unless it is waived for a particular article". https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/authors/amend/
What is interesting for our #EUfunded research.
🇪🇺The Horizon Europe funding programme for 2021-2027 differs from Horizon 2020 in part by adding a rights-retention requirement.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/common/guidance/aga_en.pdf#page=162
How to retain rights? By institutional open access policies and addenda to the publisher copyright transfer agreements.
👉Harvard is leading the movement since 2008
https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/policies/ and provides a model and a guide for implementation in other institutions.