Rights Clearance Documentation Tool

Rights Clearance Documentation Tool (RCDT) was designed and developed in the framework of the EODOPEN project (2019–2024). The project focused on making library collections visible, especially works published in the 20th and 21st century. The leading partner, University Library of Innsbruck, was joined by 14 European libraries from 11 countries to achieve the project’s objectives, such as building a common portal to display the project’s results and stimulating interest in access to textual material covered by the project. Working Group 6 (WG6), led by the National Széchényi Library (NSL), aimed at designing and developing an online tool for the documentation of rights clearance. RCDT is a web-based application and serves to support library employees in their work aiming at identifying copyright statuses of materials by documenting each step of rights clearance procedures. This article includes an overview of its main features.