Research Talk: a rights retention journey with Leeds Beckett University - what happens after a policy is published?

In this episode, Liesl Rowe, Ellie Clement and Peter Findlay talk about rights retention policies, focusing on what needs consideration when a policy has already been published by an institution.

They also explore the vital importance of institutions working together to develop the policy landscape, rights retention and the research excellence framework (REF) and the fact that senior leadership support is essential to getting a policy to work.

Key discussion points include:

• Institutional drivers for ensuring clarity about creator ownership
• Push back from publishers
• Monitoring and reviewing repositories and workflows
• Resistance to the new policy from authors and working with authors to implement the policy
• The longer-term impacts of the policy at the university and in the wider sector in terms of open research practices