Open Access Clauses in Publishers' Licences

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), has announced the availability of a report entitled 'Open Access Clauses in Publishers' Licences: Current State and Lessons Learned'. The report presents the results of a review of licences that secure the rights for authors and/or their institutions to deposit published articles into an OA repository.

Report background and highlights

The report is premised against the challenge that OA repositories lack clarity of publishers permissions and policies with regards to the dissemination and usage rights implied by the term open access.As a result, repository managers have to check deposit rights on an article-by-article before submitting articles into an open access repository.

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