In January 2021, IFLA’s Section on Academic and Research Libraries, together with IFLA Headquarters, organised a series of three webinars with experts from cOAlition S.

These focused on learning more about the Rights Retention Strategy, a key part of wider efforts to promote open access, in this case by avoiding situations where researchers sign away their rights to publishers, and can rather keep them in order to make their work available for free.

They also provided an opportunity to ask questions, and to test out how the Strategy could apply in different contexts, in particular outside of the global North.

We are happy to make the recordings available, together with the resources highlighted by the cOAlition S team:

Asia-Oceania (13 January) – Recording

Speakers:

Johan Rooryck, Executive Director, cOAlition S

Sally Rumsey, OA Expert, cOAlition S

Neha Vyas, Wellcome Trust

Lead Respondents:

Yasar Tonta, Professor, Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey

Ramesh C Gaur, Professor & Dean,  Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), India

Diana Chan, Director of Library Services, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Chair of JULAC Consortial Committee, Hong Kong

 

Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa (18 January) – Recording

Speakers:

Johan Rooryck, Executive Director, cOAlition S

Sally Rumsey, OA Expert, cOAlition S

Lead Respondents

Alwaleed Alkhaja, Senior Intellectual Property Librarian, Qatar National Library, Qatar

Reggie Raju, Director, Research and Learning Services, University of Cape Town

 

Latin America and the Caribbean (18 January) – Recording

Speakers:

Johan Rooryck, Executive Director, cOAlition S

Sally Rumsey, OA Expert, cOAlition S

Lead Respondents:

Bianca Amaro, President, La Referencia, Brazil

Arianna Becerril-García, Executive Director, Redalyc 

Eduardo Aguado, Director General, Redalyc

 

Resources

cOAlition S website: www.coalition-s.org

Plan S Rights Retention Strategy: https://www.coalition-s.org/rights-retention-strategy

Letter to Publishers Concerning the Rights Retention Strategy: https://www.coalition-s.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Letter_to_publishers_Rights_Retention_Strategy_15July2020.pdf

Response Form for Publishers: https://www.coalition-s.org/publisher-response-form

Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy: https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/guidance/open-access-guidance/open-access-policy

cOAlition S Resources Page (including an infographic, handout, single slide, and short slide-deck): https://www.coalition-s.org/resources/

cOAlition S Blog – Soapbox: https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/

Roadmap for funders implementation: https://www.coalition-s.org/plan-s-funders-implementation/

Journal Checker Tool: https://journalcheckertool.org/

CC licences: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

 

Contacts

General: info[at]coalition-s.org

Johan Rooryck, Executive Director, cOAlition S: johan.rooryck[at]coalition-s.org

Sally Rumsey, OA Expert, cOAlition S: Sally.Rumsey[at]jisc.ac.uk

Neha Vyas, Wellcome Trust: N.Vyas[at]wellcome.org