Rights Retention: Exploring how the Plan S Strategy could apply globally: Recording Available!

In January 2021, IFLA’s Section on Academic and Research Libraries, together with IFLA Headquarters, organised a series of three webinars with experts from cOAlition S.

These focused on learning more about the Rights Retention Strategy, a key part of wider efforts to promote open access, in this case by avoiding situations where researchers sign away their rights to publishers, and can rather keep them in order to make their work available for free.

They also provided an opportunity to ask questions, and to test out how the Strategy could apply in different contexts, in particular outside of the global North.

We are happy to make the recordings available, together with the resources highlighted by the cOAlition S team:

Asia-Oceania (13 January) - Recording

Speakers:

• Johan Rooryck
  Executive Director, cOAlition S
• Sally Rumsey
  OA Expert, cOAlition S
• Neha Vyas
  Wellcome Trust

Lead Respondents:

• Yasar Tonta
  Professor, Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey
• Ramesh C Gaur
  Professor & Dean
  Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), India
• Diana Chan
  Director of Library Services, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Chair of JULAC Consortial Committee, Hong Kong

Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa (18 January) - Recording

Speakers:

• Johan Rooryck
  Executive Director, cOAlition S
• Sally Rumsey
  OA Expert, cOAlition S

Lead Respondents

• Alwaleed Alkhaja
  Senior Intellectual Property Librarian, Qatar National Library, Qatar
• Reggie Raju
  Director, Research and Learning Services, University of Cape Town

Latin America and the Caribbean (18 January) – Recording

Speakers:

• Johan Rooryck
  Executive Director, cOAlition S
• Sally Rumsey
  OA Expert, cOAlition S

Lead Respondents:

• Bianca Amaro
  President, La Referencia, Brazil
• Arianna Becerril-García
  Executive Director, Redalyc 
• Eduardo Aguado
  Director General, Redalyc

Resources

• cOAlition S
• Plan S Rights Retention Strategy
• Letter to Publishers Concerning the Rights Retention Strategy [PDF]
• Response Form for Publishers
• Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy
• cOAlition S Resources Page (including an infographic, handout, single slide, and short slide-deck)
• cOAlition S Blog - Soapbox
• Roadmap for funders implementation
• Journal Checker Tool
• CC licences

Contacts

• General: info[at]coalition-s.org
• Johan Rooryck, Executive Director, cOAlition S: johan.rooryck[at]coalition-s.org
• Sally Rumsey, OA Expert, cOAlition S: Sally.Rumsey[at]jisc.ac.uk
• Neha Vyas, Wellcome Trust: N.Vyas[at]wellcome.org

Webinars, Academic and Research Libraries, Rights retention, Open access, Open science

Última actualización: 26 Enero 2021