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 […]
Tag: Rights Retention
This three-part post is written by Eddy Verbaan, Head of Library Research Support at Sheffield Hallam University. Rolling out your own institutional rights retention policy (IRRP) can be a challenge. The work starts with writing a policy, linking it to existing Intellectual Property (IP) and other policies (and employment contracts) and getting the approval from […]
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 […]