The Case for Rights Retention In-Person
Join us for Open Access Week and explore Rights Retention, where we explain how researchers can take control of their intellectual property. Discover why retaining your copyright when submitting to academic journals is crucial for maximising the impact and accessibility of your work.
Rights Retention is an initiative that supports the self-archiving route to open access. It allows researchers to publish in subscription or hybrid journals while making their manuscripts available open access through self-deposit. This ensures the widest possible access to research and helps meet funder requirements. Rights retention can significantly boost the open access rate at UCC and other universities. This event will explain the Why and How!
Our event will bring together experts from across Ireland and the UK to discuss the latest developments and practices in rights retention. The day will begin with a comprehensive session on investigating rights retention in Ireland led by Eoin O’Dell from Trinity College Dublin.
Frances Madden from TU Dublin will then present on Updating open access policies in 2024: the SCOIR exemplar. As part of the NORF-funded SCOIR project, a new exemplar institutional open access policy has been developed. This talk will describe the key points of this project and outline this work package’s upcoming activities.
After a networking lunch, Kate O’Neill from the University of Sheffield will share practical experiences from the N8 partnership and policy implementation. The event will conclude with a panel discussion on the future of rights retention in Irish universities, featuring leading voices in the field.
This is a must-attend event for anyone involved in academic publishing, research services, or open access policy. We look forward to your participation and the engaging discussions that will follow. For more information email cora@ucc.ie or donna.odoibhlin@ucc.ie.
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Lunch will be provided from 12:15 to 13.00
Programme of the day:
| 10.00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 10.15 |
Welcome Address. David O'Connell, Director of Research Support and Policy, University College Cork. |
| 10.30 |
Open Access Publishing at UCC. Hardy Schwamm, Head of Research Services, UCC Library, University College Cork |
| 10.45 | Investigating Rights Retention in Ireland. Eoin O'Dell, Associate Professor, Law, Trinity College Dublin. |
| 11.45 | The SCOIR Institutional Open Access Policy. Frances Madden, Assistant Head of Library Services, Research Services, TU Dublin, |
| 12.15 | Lunch (provided) |
| 13.00 | Rights Retention in practice: A collaborative approach to Rights Retention by the N8 partnership. Kate O’Neill, Scholarly Licensing Manager, University of Sheffield |
| 14.00 | Panel discussion: Rights Retention - What’s Next for Irish Universities? |
| 15.00 | Close of Day |
Who should attend the event?
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Academic staff and research students with an interest in author rights and Open Access publishing
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Research support staff and librarians who assist with scholarly publishing, funder requirements and policy development
Details of talks and speakers:
Dr Eoin O’Dell: Investigating Rights Retention in Ireland
Dr Eoin O'Dell is an Associate Professor of Law in Trinity College Dublin. He researches and publishes primarily in the fields of freedom of expression, and private and commercial law – and especially where they overlap in IP, IT and cyberlaw. He is co-lead of the National Open Research Fund project, SCOIR (Secondary rights, copyright, open access and institutional rights retention).
Frances Madden: The SCOIR Institutional Open Access Policy
Frances Madden is Assistant Head of Library Services: Research Services at TU Dublin and is co-lead of the National Open Research Fund project, SCOIR (Secondary rights, copyright, open access and institutional rights retention). Prior to joining TU Dublin, Frances was Technical Relationship and Project Manager for the Legal Deposit Libraries, based at the British Library.
Kate O'Neill: A collaborative approach to Rights Retention by the N8 partnership.
Kate O'Neill is the Scholarly Licensing Manager at The University of Sheffield, where she manages the library's copyright and licensing service. Based within the library's Scholarly Communications Team, her work is particularly focused on helping academics retain their copyright and share their work under open licences that meet their needs. With over a decade of experience working in open research she is particularly passionate about sustainable and equitable forms of publishing and research dissemination, repository development and how these in turn can help support bibliodiversity.
In late 2022 the N8 research partnership set up a Rights Retention Operational Group to work together to support one another through our institutional rights retention implementations and share best practice as well as coordinate workflows, comms plans and guidance for authors. This talk will focus on how we worked together, the benefits of taking a shared approach and how this collaborative model made our local policies and practices more effective. There will also be discussion about how the policy implementation worked at the local level and how the lessons learned from that can help others who are looking to develop and implement their own Rights Retention policies.
