Common use of Open Access Regulations Clause in Contracts

Open Access Regulations. 22. Where possible, open access rights should be granted for the licensed materials, particularly for journals. The following regulations are recommended: Authors from the contractually defined user group are permitted free of charge to store without delay their articles which appear in licensed journals generally in the form published by the publisher (e.g. PDF) in an (institutional or discipline-specific) repository of their choice and to make them available through open access. The institutions to which the authors belong have the same right. An agreement by which the publisher itself stores articles written by authors from the contractually defined user group in a repository may also be reached. Schedule 2: List of specified Contractually Defined Users>