Rights Retention Waiver Form

The research publications policy is in place from 1 January 2024 and stipulates full and immediate open access for all journal articles published by staff and students of Manchester Met under a CC-BY licence, in the university’s research repository e-space.

Fill in this waiver form if you wish to opt out of retaining your author rights. Requests will be reasonably considered by the Library (in consultation with Faculty Research Leads where necessary) but will be granted only in exceptional circumstances, and will not be granted where doing so would put the University or researchers in breach of a funder requirement. Opting out applies to one output only; therefore, you must fill out this form for each output where you wish to opt out. This action may cause the research output to be non-compliant with funder policies.

The rights retention waiver form must be completed prior to submission of the work for publication, providing a clear rationale in the relevant section below.

For more information see the Library’s guidance on rights retention.

(Please note: * denotes a required field)

About you

1. Name

2. Email

3. Your Faculty

4. Your Department

About your publication

5. Title of article

6. Title of journal

7. Publisher

8. Date of acceptance

Note: If output has not yet been submitted, please leave blank

9. Date first appeared online or date of publication (earliest date)

Note: If output has not yet been submitted, please leave blank

10. DOI

Note: If output has not yet been submitted, please leave blank

About your funding

11. Funder name

12. Grant number

13. reason(s) for requesting an opt-out waiver

Co-authors do not respond or agree to CC-BY

The article contains a substantial amount of 3rd party materials (such as images, photographs, diagrams or maps) which cannot be licensed with a CC-BY license. Redaction of the 3rd party content is not appropriate

The corresponding author has applied to the funder for permission to select an alternative CC-BY-ND (No-Derivatives) licensing exception

The corresponding author has selected an alternative CC-BY-ND (No-Derivatives) license

Co-author(s) selected a different license, for example CC-BY-ND (No-Derivatives) or Crown Copyright Open Government license (OGL)

The output contains sensitive information restricted from public view. Permanent restriction applies

Other - please specify

Other – please specify

14. Additional information

I understand that requesting to opt out from the research publications policy, applies to one output only and that authors must fill out this form for each output where they wish to opt out. This action may cause the research output to be non-compliant with funder policies. Furthermore, I understand that authors cannot opt out of the requirement for depositing their accepted manuscripts in Symplectic.

Data Protection

The Manchester Metropolitan University ('the University') is the Data Controller for the personal data you disclose via this form. The purpose of this form is to opt out of retaining ownership of the intellectual property rights to your journal articles. If you have consented to receive our marketing communications we will also use your personal data to send you targeted information about relevant services and benefits which we think will be of interest. If you have consented to receive our marketing communications we will also use your personal data to send you targeted information about relevant services and benefits which we think will be of interest. You can withdraw your consent to receiving any, or all, of the above communications at any point by emailing openresearch@mmu.ac.uk. Your personal data are only retained for as long as it is necessary in accordance with the University’s Retention and Disposal Schedule. For further information about us, how we process your personal data and your rights, please view our privacy notice.

Rights Retention Waiver Form

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