Plan S Update: Rights Retention Strategy
In July 2020, cOAlition S released its Rights Retention Strategy (RRS). With this strategy, funding organizations will mandate that researchers apply a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence to their research before it is submitted for publication (cOAlition S 2020a). This will allow researchers to retain the intellectual rights necessary for sharing Author Accepted Manuscripts (AAMs) or Versions of Record (VORs) in an OA repository upon publication, even when publishing in a subscription or hybrid journal (see Rooryck 2020).