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Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care? The N8 Research Partnership launched its Rights Retention statement in January 2023. Now nearly three years later and with the sector in the midst of a financial crisis, the...

Open Access for All: What Is Rights Retention and Why Should You Care?

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 1pm - 2pm

With Thom Blake @uoyopenres.bsky.social and Professor Stephen Eglen, Universty of Cambridge

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We're traumatising kids. Just stop it.

I have a 5-year old (incredibly well-behaved and the kindest soul you will ever meet) who is convinced that what awaits him tomorrow morning is an official judgement on his moral standing. If/when he doesn't get exactly what he wants he will interpret it as meaning that he just isn't ‘good’ enough.

Clearly, how many/expensive presents kids get is more down to the wealth and social status of their parents and to make kids internalise this as somehow a measure of their own virtue is appalling.

Can we (looking at you kids TV and Santa impersonators) stop with the pernicious idea that what presents you get on Christmas morning is an indicator of whether you are essentially ‘naughty’ or ‘nice’

Tell you what, that was a long day.