Hello, I am Stefania Lombardi. This is a presentation by Stefania Lombardi, Silvia Giannini, Anna Molino. The title is the literature supporting the right to knowledge.

Why this topic is so important for us? Before we take a look at this slide, there is a sort of work, a breakdown structure of our presentation, numbered from topic to topic.

And this is the slide regarding the context of rights retention. Rights retention is important for a strange praxis, authors often cede their rights to publishers.

What it means? What it really means? It means they are no longer free to use their publication without publishers permission.

It means also they neither can use the graphs nor.

So it is very important authors retain their rights in the publication process. The context deal with an important topic such as open science and the access to knowledge.

As we already know, open science implies a lot of things such as opening, sharing and so on. The most important thing regarding the access to knowledge is that it is a basic human right.

So we ask what is the situation in our country, in Italy, regarding the rights of the patient. We note and are aware of authors and institutions, for example lack of information and so on.

So some research questions could be about the knowledge of the copyright law in every country, particularly in this case.

Or about rights retention as well. Or about the research evaluation process because we are speaking about the research evaluation process.

Because maybe the criteria used in this research evaluation process may influence authors' choice of publication.

So there is an important initiative, CLAP. CLAP stands for copyright law and access to knowledge policies group. In this slide we can see the what, the how of CLAP and of course CLAP participants.

CLAP is a national research group. The most important thing of CLAP is the knowledge as an essential common for education, innovation and cultural participation.

So you must remember what is the mission of CLAP. Knowledge as an essential common for some things such as education, innovation, cultural participation.

Common, essential, common. The how of CLAP. In the past slide we show the context of rights retention and the main topics

area of CLAPs are rights retention, secondary publishing rights, open norms and cultural digital learning. Some main important topics in CLAP initiatives.

The participants, we have a project leader that is IGSGCNR. We have also the national coordinator of the program KR21. Creative commons Italian chapter and two libraries.

The library of the research area of the CNR and our library, the library of the research area of the CNR. We can see in this slide the main topic of the KR21 knowledge rights 21 program.

Is the convention knowledge is essential for education, innovation and cultural participation. Such as the main interest of CLAP, we can see in knowledge rights 21 program.

And in particular everyone must have the condition to use, to access and to use knowledge.

Everyone must have the condition, the chance to access and use knowledge. If we think a little about it, this sort of sounds of the main topic, the main slogan of UNO agenda 2013.

And the main topic is no one should be left behind. In this case, everybody must have the condition to access and use knowledge.

Under the KR21 program, the right to pub project, right to pub project stands for balancing publication rights, the voice from the Italian research community.

And the main topics of this project are three important activities. One is the activity of advocating for a formal recognition of secondary publication rights to reach a legislative leader.

So advocating to reach a legislative leader in bottom-up activity. Another important point is directing attention toward the limitation of current national legislation.

This is a direct consequence of the first point. The third important point is enhancing awareness within national research community regarding the talking of rights retention.

So first advocating activity to reach the national leader. Second, attention to the inherent limitation of the actual law, the actual national law and what we can do on this regard.

And then, enhancing awareness within the research community on this topic of rights retention.

So why it is important for our library, our library is in CLAP initiative and it is also in right to pub project. Our library is interested in this project for inherent activities that deal with rights retention.

Some activities of our library, for example, are for motors about the publication values, for motors

about the deposit of the scientific production or strategies for green open access and so on. So the interest of our library concern rights retention strategy.

And we ask how they may be implemented. Also, our contribution is on collection policies, strategies, also experience in the field of rights retention.

So we can see how to approach rights retention and collection some experience and see in this slide some examples

of initiative and also gray out materials that may help authors in the retention of the rights during the publication project.

An important initiative is, of course, coalition as rights retention strategy. Another initiative is in France and the name is Obrilla Science. Another initiative is by Spark Europe.

The retain project by Spark Europe, also the retain project is a KR21 funding program project as right to pub, for example.

Other initiatives are local, are the YARPs. YARP stands for Institutional Author Rights Retention Policies. The first YARP was the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Science, USA.

It was the first example of YARP. So there are 80 universities in the USA follow this model. We can see in the next slide how different this model is respect the models in Europe, for example.

We have also examples of national laws and green materials that may help authors in the retention of the rights during the publication project.

Examples of ongoing national law are in Italy and in South Africa. A law already done are here in the Netherlands, in France, in Germany and in Belgium.

You can see all the laws, the following links in the slide. So, as we can see, some examples of grey literature are what?

The first examples dealing with the national law or YARPs are policy documents or organizational reports.

We have already analyzed some policies regarding the rights retention strategy. What we can see from this analysis? We can see that from the Harvard model, USA, we learn that institutional

rights retention policies are more effective than asking authors to retain rights independently. So, institutions have more power than single authors.

What in Europe? In Europe we have a different situation. For example, a report of the retaining project states that the context in which

the policy is developed and the publishing culture are affecting the nature of policies. So, in Europe we can see a different model in each institution. So, this report contrasts between Harvard style rights retention policies and those developing in Europe.

While in the Harvard model, a non-exclusive license is granted to the university by each faculty.

In the European model, every YARPs treat this matter differently and coordinated discussions are ongoing in the Netherlands and in France. These institutional policies are developed in Germany.

For example, Iceland in Germany, one policy on rights retention strategy, one policy in Iceland, one policy in Ireland, more policies in Norway, more policies in Sweden and one policy in the UK.

So, TAR, CLAP initiative, great outputs. Great outputs are on the mentioned topics of norms, rights retention, secondary publishing rights and

so there are some videos on these topics made by expert authors on the matters.

So, what are the next great steps in the right to pub project? CLAP will continue to produce other mini videos to increase authors awareness.

This is one way, but there are other ways to do this. Other instruments such as, for example, podcasts, toolkits, leaflets, infographics and so on may help authors become more and more aware of the rights.

So, it could be an example of practical guide for consultation on this topic.

Other ongoing output will be the results of a survey about rights retention and so a secondary publishing rights administered to the CNR scientific community with deadline on November 30.

And so, we are waiting regarding this survey outputs.

And our conclusion, with our conclusion, we see that rights to pub project is one of some important initiatives in Italy, but there is still a lot of work to do.

We need to collect and systematize all the materials regarding rights retention to let these materials easily to be used and reused by the international scientific community.

And all these materials, all these outputs is important in supporting the right to knowledge.

Thank you.