In a statement published in the context of International Open Access Week 2024, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) expresses its strong support for Secondary Publication Rights (SPRs), a legal mechanism that allows researchers to freely share publicly funded scholarly articles via institutional or other non-profit repositories.
ALLEA, a longtime advocate for equitable Open Access (OA) publishing, welcomes the introduction of SPRs in several European countries and calls for EU-wide harmonisation to standardise these rights and improve their effectiveness.
All European Academies (ALLEA) is a broad European federation of academies of science with more than 50 members from 40 countries that aims to connect science, policy and society.