This section contains information on:

• Self-archiving
• Rights Retention
• The University's Self-Archiving policy.

Find out more in our video on Green and Gold open access.

This video covers: 

• What is an embargo period? 
• Copyright transfer agreements and what they might say about embargo periods. 
• Why the embargo period may not be compatible with funder open access requirements. 
• What is rights retention? How can it help researchers? 

When submitting an article, researchers need to include the following wording in their submitted manuscript and any submission cover letter/note if their grant funder terms require it:

'For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.’ 

More information is on our webpages on Rights Retention and our Self-Archiving Policy Guidance.

This video covers: 

• What is rights retention? Why is it helpful? 
• How does rights retention work? What do researchers need to do? 
• How to complete the Self-Archiving policy question when depositing to Symplectic Elements. 
• The University’s Self-Archiving policy.