Declaration of Rights and Principles to Transform Scholarly Communication
1. No copyright
transfers.
2. No restrictions
on preprints.
3. No waivers of
OA Policy.
4. No delays to
sharing.
5. No limitations
on author reuse.
6. No impediments
to rights reversion.
7. No curtailment
of copyright exceptions.
8. No barriers to
data availability.
9. No constraints
on content mining.
10. No closed
metadata.
11. No free labor.
12. No long-term
subscriptions.
13. No permanent
paywalls.
14. No double
payments.
15. No hidden
profits.
16. No deals
without OA offsets.
17. No new
paywalls for our work.
18. No
non-disclosure agreements.
Source: https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/committees/ucolasc/scholcommprinciples-20180425.pdf
