If a publisher challenges inclusion of the RRS statement please contact us for advice. Publishers would be expected to do this on submission, and not at the point of acceptance or publication.
Where a publisher has been granted a Transformative Status by JISC (as many large academic publishers have), they should not inhibit the use of a RRS approach. JISC's requirements to be considered as transformative include:
- If an article is not eligible under an agreement, authors must be able to make their AAM available with no embargo and under a licence that allows reuse by all, in perpetuity under CC-BY licensing terms.
- Allowing the author or the author's institution to retain copyright and the rights necessary to make a version of the article immediately available under a compliant open licence.
- ... not inhibiting the use of the Rights Retention Strategy either by rejecting articles, rerouting articles to other journals or by presenting an author, (including co-authors) with terms that prevent them from making their AAM immediately open access in compliance with their funder policies.
