EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) has published a new provision on Secondary Publication Rights (SPR) in copyright law. SPR gives authors (or their institutions) the legal right to make their research openly available after, or in parallel to, publication of a formal version of the work (usually the peer-reviewed Author’s Accepted Manuscript or the final, typeset version, known as the Version of Record) even in the absence of an open access publishing agreement, and even if the work is published behind a paywall.
This news item contains a description of the new SPR provision (Article 8 in the EIFL Draft Law on Copyright) and includes a link to the updated and re-freshed EIFL Draft Law, as well as to the webinar slides and recording.
Slovenia became the eight country to adopt SPR in an amendment to the Scientific Research and Innovation Activity Act in May. Read more.
