SPARC Europe announced that it has been selected by the Knowledge Rights 21 program to review and reform author rights retention and open licensing policies in Europe. Goals of the Retain Project are to:
- simplify the rights retention procedures,
- encourage the adoption of open licenses, and
- better empower authors so that they and their fellow researchers, teachers and students can further benefit from the research they share.
The Retain Project will evaluate existing institution, funder and publisher policies and produce an action plan and materials to help institutions and authors retain their publication rights. The project begins July 1st, 2023.
