Erasmus Open Access Fund

In 2025, the financial support to open access given by the EUR library is divided into two separate funds: the Erasmus Open Access Book Fund, and the Erasmus Diamond Open Access Fund. 

OA book fund

With the Erasmus Open Access Book Fund 2025, we aim to stimulate the open access publication of scientific monographs and edited collections.

For the open access publication of scientific monographs and edited collections, the publisher charges publication fees, known as the Book Processing Charges (BPCs). If the BPCs are not covered by the grant provider or another funding source, you can apply to the Erasmus Open Access Fund 2025.

Diamond OA fund

Diamond open access journals are defined as journals that make all articles and related content available for free immediately without charging authors and readers. This publishing model differs from Gold open access journals, whose content is freely available to read, but they charge authors or their institutions an article processing charge (APC) to publish. Since diamond open access journals do not rely on APCs or readers’ subscriptions, such publishers often require funding from external sources such as academic institutions, government grants, or philanthropists. Diamond open access initiatives often have difficulty securing funding and the importance of this open access model is still underestimated in existing open access strategies.

Given this reason, the Library has instituted a stimulus fund to assist diamond open access publishing initiatives run by EUR researchers. The Erasmus Diamond Open Access Fund is intended as a support structure to improve and develop existing initiatives (professionalizing an existing journal, subscribing to a platform etc.) or to start up a new one (creating a new journal or flipping an existing journal to diamond open access).