*Sub: Universities and research institutions in India should adopt a Rights retension policy* Friends, Here is what the University of Edinburgh has done. https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/openscholarship/2022/10/14/rights-retention... It will be great if all academic and research institutions in India could consider adopting such a policy. Commenting on the development, *Peter Murray-Rust*, Cambridge University chemist, crystallographer and open science champion, says, "Yes, I've been following this as well and I think it will be an important theme in global OA Week (in a weeks' time). The key development here is that the UoE is setting out to formally challenge the publishers *in the courts*. Up until now the Universities have made declarations and protocols, and researchers who followed them have been overridden or ignored by publishers and everyone has said "oh dear, but we tried". This is the first time where OA has really set to defend itself. Ultimately the only things that publishers care about are income and the courts. As far as I know , no publisher has ever been fined for any irregularity in scholarly publishing. So their attitude has been "let's push the boundaries as far as we can (enclosure, copyfraud, etc.) and if we get pushback we'll say 'sorry'". Over 25 years I have seen Universities wimp out, both at first hand and Edinburgh is the first to show teeth. If Universities act collectively, it will spread and establish not only author rights, but Open Access rights in general. It must be widely supported." Regards. Subbiah Arunachalam http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009