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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">See Coalition S Rights Retention Strategy announcement in the email from Kathleen Shearer below. Good news for repositories and authors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Ansie van der Westhuizen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Non-Commercial Digital Developer (Institutional Repository)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Department of Library Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">University of South Africa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">vdwesapj@unisa.ac.za<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Members <<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.coar-repositories.org">members-bounces@lists.coar-repositories.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kathleen Shearer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 15 July 2020 3:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> members <<a href="mailto:members@coar-repositories.org">members@coar-repositories.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [COAR Members] Coalition S Rights Retention Strategy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear members and partners<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’m pleased to share with you a new requirement by Coalition S funders to strengthen the repository route of Plan S.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">They have announced today that funded researchers will retain their rights to Authors Accepted Manuscripts of Version of Record in order to be able to post them immediately in a repository. They are requesting that subscription
publishers modify their policies to support this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You can find the full announcement is linked, summary below:
<a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-develops-rights-retention-strategy/">
https://www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-develops-rights-retention-strategy/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Let’s hope this trend spreads beyond just Coalition S funders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Kathleen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1><span lang="EN-US">cOAlition S develops “Rights Retention Strategy” to safeguard researchers’ intellectual ownership rights and suppress unreasonable embargo periods<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="date"><span lang="EN-US">15/07/2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h4><span lang="EN-US">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. To address this
problem, cOAlition S has developed a <a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/rights-retention-strategy/">
Rights Retention Strategy</a>, which will empower their funded researchers to publish in their journal of choice, including subscription journals, and provide Open Access in compliance with Plan S.<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">One of the three Plan S routes to achieve full and immediate Open Access is via repositories, where, as a minimum, the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is made
openly available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence or equivalent, without any embargo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">The
<a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/rights-retention-strategy/">Rights Retention Strategy</a> is designed to ensure that all cOAlition S funded scholarly publications are available as Open Access. In practical terms, it enables researchers to retain sufficient
intellectual ownership rights in their work to make the AAM Open Access at the time of publication with a CC BY license.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">“<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The COVID-19 crisis has clearly shown that embargo periods are indefensible. No private or business interests
can justify that new and original research results are held back for 6 or 12 months from other scientists, practitioners, governments and authorities, medical staff, patients and patient associations – especially those who are economically disadvantaged, who
cannot afford expensive access tolls</span></em>”, emphasizes Marc Schiltz, President of Science Europe and Chair of the cOAlition S Leaders Group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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