cOAlition S recently announced its Rights Retention Strategy which will support researchers in providing full and immediate Open Access to their articles via repositories. cOAlition S organisations will change their grant conditions to require that a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY) is applied to all Author Accepted Manuscripts (AAMs) or Versions of Record reporting original research, supported in whole or in part by their funding. Publishers are encouraged to modify their existing publishing agreements to allow authors to make their AAMs freely available at the time of publication with a CC BY licence. 

OpenAIRE welcomes this announcement. As an Open Science infrastructure that has supported open access to scholarly outputs for over a decade, it has developed a worldwide network of repositories which are regularly harvested, providing increased visibility and interoperability for peer-reviewed publications from thousands of research performing organisations. It is in this context in particular that the Rights Retention Strategy is welcomed as a signal that will give support for and make it easier for researchers to deposit their articles in repositories. Ultimately this development will lead to more clarity regarding re-use rights for publications. 

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