No, the policy does not require a transfer of copyright. You will provide what is called a “non-exclusive permission” to archive and disseminate an article in Western’s open access institutional repository, Scholarship@Western.
Non-exclusive permission means that you provide Western permission for the specific act of disseminating a particular article via the repository. As this permission is non-exclusive, you retain the ability to grant non-exclusive rights to your article to other third parties, such as publishers or academic societies.
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