It is important that researchers try to retain the right to deposit their papers in institutional repositories. Institutional repositories help the research community to provide open access to research papers. They provide a showcase for an institution’s research output, and a simple way to allow the wider public to engage with the results of academic research. For the individual researcher, the discovery of their open access full-text articles via such repositories can help to increase their profile internationally.
Recently, JISC have been concerned by certain activities which they consider may pose a threat to authors’s rights in this area.
Read what JISC have to say about it and find out what your rights are.
