Retain your rights to publish open access
Rights retention enables you to retain rights to your peer-reviewed research and share it openly without embargo.
Including a rights retention statement when submitting your manuscript to publishers allows you to apply an open licence to the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM). You can then deposit a copy of the AAM in a repository such as UQ eSpace on publication to enable immediate open access with no embargo period.
An author accepted manuscript or post-print is the version of an article that has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication before the publisher has applied formatting, typesetting and branding.
Use a rights retention statement
- Ensure that your co-authors agree to apply an open licence in line with funder requirements.
- Add this rights retention statement to your manuscript when you submit your article for publication:
This research was funded in whole or in part by [Funder and Grant details]. For the purposes of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.
- If your publisher asks you to agree to something that conflicts with your intent to apply a CC BY licence to your accepted manuscript, please email scholarlypublishing@library.uq.edu.au for advice.
- After your article has been accepted and published, upload your Author Accepted Manuscript into UQ eSpace.
- In the notes field add 'Rights Retention Statement in Manuscript', indicating that your submission is covered by rights retention.
Benefits of rights retention for open access
Providing open access to your work using the rights retention strategy:
- allows greater visibility of your research
- enables compliance with funder mandates, e.g. National Health and Medical Research Council and the Medical Research Future Fund.