Report on the Strathclyde Institutional Rights Retention Policy (IRRP) 12 months into the policy

Following its approval by the University Senate on 15 Nov 2023, the University of Strathclyde Institutional Rights Retention Policy (IRRP) came into force at the start of 2024. This policy to deposit embargo-free copies of full-text accepted manuscripts under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence applied to manuscripts for journal articles and conference papers submitted on or after 1 Jan 2024.

This is the Jan'2025 report for the uptake of the Strathclyde IRRP 12 months into the policy. The report is based on the snapshot taken from Pure on 1 Jan 2025 and shows that this rights retention route has been applied to 190 Strathclyde publications (i.e. a 4.5% of the institutional research outputs) during the first year of the policy. The report examines the monthly distribution for the different brands of rights retention, the distribution of 'rights retention publications' by document type, by Strathclyde department (including against the total number of publications by department) and by publisher. Some more general comments are included at the end of the report on the way the policy is being applied at Strathclyde, both for internal and external use.

The slides presented at the session "Practical application of Institutional Rights Retention Policies" held by the Open Research Scotland WG on Jan 16th, 2025 are also included in this record.