Institutional Rights Retention Strategy for USN

The Institutional Rights Retention Strategy ensures that all scientific articles authored by employees at USN can be made openly available from the time of publication with a Creative Commons license. The rights policy applies to scientific articles in journals, not to books or book chapters.

USN has adopted the following Institutional Rights Retention Strategy, effective from October 1, 2023:

  1. USN employees are free to choose where they wish to publish scientific articles.
  2. When a scientific article is published in a closed-access journal, USN employees must deposit the final manuscript version after peer review (Author's Accepted Manuscript, AAM) in the research repository.
  3. The University Library is responsible for ensuring that the AAM is made immediately available from the repository with a Creative Commons (CC) license.
  4. As a general rule, articles will be made available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
  5. The principal of USN is responsible for the management and interpretation of the strategy.
  6. The Institutional Rights Retention Strategy aligns with the Rights Retention Strategy, which is part of Plan S. Employees not affiliated with projects covered by Plan S and who wish for the full-text version of their article not to be made immediately available or not to be assigned a CC license must notify the University Library of which articles this applies to.
  7. USN recommends that students follow the Institutional Rights Retention Strategy.

The strategy will be evaluated after three years.

What is an Institutional Rights Retention Strategy?

Institutional Rights Retention Strategy (IRRS), also known as the Rights Retention Strategy (RRS), ensures that researchers can publish wherever they choose while simultaneously making their articles immediately available in USN's open research repository.

An institutional rights retention strategy means that USN takes responsibility for ensuring that articles, even from non-open journals, can be openly deposited in the research repository.

See which other Norwegian institutions have adopted an institutional rights retention strategy (Only in Norwegian).

 

Do you have questions about the rights policy?

Contact Herman Strøm

Institutional Rights Retention Strategy for USN