IRRP question time (2)

About

This second in our series of webinars about institutional rights retention policies (IRRPs) will focus on impacts on intellectual property, how rights retention (RR) might be implemented in a variety of ways in different institutional contexts and the benefits and challenges to academic authors of RR.

Background

UKRI has a new open access policy that requires funded authors to make their research publications freely available to the public through open access. One route to compliance is for authors to deposit a copy of their Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in their institutional or other open access repository and to include particular wording in the contract with their publishers. Commonly this is known as rights retention and rights retention policies (IRRPs) are in place at about a third of UK higher education institutions.

Why we are doing this

Jisc, together with our partners SCONUL and RLUK, now wants to support the entire sector to work through the issues raised by this policy requirement. We have therefore established a Teams channel with example documentation and FAQs and are conducting these panel-led community Q&A sessions to support those tasked with developing a policy for their institution.

Panellists

• Chris Morrison, copyright and licensing specialist, University of Oxford.
  • Chris will report on the journey the University of Oxford have taken to implement rights retention into their Open Access Publications Policy on an opt-out basis. He will discuss the challenges associated with operating an opt-in pilot and outline plans to move from opt-out policy approval to implementation.
• Ruth Harrison, head of Scholarly Communications Management Library Services, Imperial College London.
  • Ruth will talk about the IRRP experience at Imperial including her team’s engagement plan that was developed to communicate the benefits of rights retention to researchers and to library staff, and how institutional governance structures are important to implementation.
• Pablo de Castro, open access advocacy librarian, University of Strathclyde.
  • Pablo will address some of the early implementation challenges for these policies (Strathclyde are barely six months into their own one) and the usefulness of having the appropriate cross-institutional coordination workflows (and internal SOPs) in place.

Who should attend

The discussions at this event will be of particular interest to:

• Open access librarians
• Research managers
• Other professionals who support open access in their organisation
• This event is for ac.uk emails only and registrations without this may be cancelled.

Contact

For further information, please contact events@jisc.ac.uk.