EIFL and the University of Latvia Library organized a webinar on rights retention and secondary publication rights as part of International Open Access Week 2025. The Latvian Open Science strategy 2021-2027 encourages researchers and research institutions to retain copyright in their publications, and Horizon Europe requires rights retention to achieve open access to its research outputs. But how can these policies be implemented? 

The aim of the webinar, titled ‘Retaining author’s rights to enable open access to research outputs’, was to raise awareness of rights retention policies in Latvia and the issue of secondary publication rights found in European legislation

The speakers were Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme, Project Coordinator and Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager.

The presentation by Milica Ševkušić, ‘How to retain your (copy)rights: practical steps for researchers’ described common misconceptions and fears of researchers when it comes to retaining rights, the benefits and challenges of rights retention, and examples of rights retention strategies (cOAlition S), policies (Leeds Beckett University) and institutional support (University of Edinburgh).

See the presentation by Teresa Hackett, ‘Enforcing your rights in support of open science: introducing secondary publication rights’.