Will this limit my opportunities to publish?
The experience from the organisations that have already adopted a Rights Retention (RR) position is that it does not limit the opportunity to publish. Of course, publishers are free to desk reject manuscripts which are submitted under RR. However, as soon as they accept such a manuscript for publication, in the knowledge that there is a prior licence attached to it, this takes precedence over any subsequent licence under contract law.
If your chosen publisher will not consider your submission because of the prior licence, and you feel you cannot publish your paper or conference proceedings in another journal or with another publisher, then you can opt out of the University of Derby policy. This means that you can apply a different licence than CC BY and introduce a delay (an ‘embargo’) in making your paper Open Access (OA) via the University's repository, UDORA. Opting out should therefore allow you to publish with your intended publisher. That said, please be mindful that if you have a grant from a funder that requires immediate OA such as UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the Wellcome Trust, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) or the European Research Council (ERC), then the publisher may be putting you in breach of your funder’s requirements. For further guidance on funder requirements for OA, please see the Funder Policies tab of the OA LibGuide
If you wish to opt out of this Policy, please contact rightsretention@derby.ac.uk. Please also use this email address to notify us if a publisher will not consider your submission because of the prior licence.