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 Teresa Hackett, ‘Enforcing your rights in support of open science: introducing secondary publication rights’ defined secondary publication rights (SPR), gave examples of SPR in two countries (Bulgaria and Slovenia), described developments at a European level and presented a model provision on SPR in copyright law from EIFL’s Draft Law on Copyright (2025).

See the presentation by Milica Ševkušić, ‘How to retain your (copy)rights: practical steps for researchers’.