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Impacts and Insights: Supporting Institutional Rights Retention Policies

Jisc’s IRRP Project supports higher education institutions in implementing institutional rights retention policies (IRRPs). Last year, Jisc organised two IRRP Question Time webinars to share information about rights retention and policy development in the UK. We also launched a dedicated IRRP channel to foster conversation, support networks, and share best practices. To understand more about […]

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Knowledge applied: Rights retention at Sheffield Hallam (2)

This is the second in a three-part guest blog post written by Eddy Verbaan, Head of Library Research Support at Sheffield Hallam University. We need more data! When we started thinking about the practical implementation of our new policy, one of the first questions we addressed was: what data do we need to capture to […]

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Institutional rights retention policies – what next?

Rights retention is an opportunity for the sector to challenge the existing paradigm. Implementation of funders’ rights retention policies has prompted many academic institutions to take even stronger steps towards supporting their researchers to retain rights by adopting Institutional Rights Retention Policies (IRRPs). We have been supporting all UK higher education institutions (HEIs) in accelerating […]