In 2025, the financial support to open access given by the EUR library is divided into three separate funds: the Erasmus Open Access Book Fund, the Erasmus Diamond Open Access Fund, and the Open Access Infrastructure 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 initiatives are defined as publishers or journals that make all content available for free immediately and permanently without charging authors and readers. Since diamond open access initiatives do not rely on APCs or readers’ subscriptions, such initiatives often require funding from external sources such as academic institutions, government grants, or philanthropists. They 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).
OA Infrastructure Fund
OA infrastructures are defined as tools, software, workflows, platforms, and digital services that support free, open, and fair publishing. Many of these infrastructures are governed and owned by the scholarly community and are reliant on collective funding from governments, funders, and institutions.
For this reason, the Library has established the OA Infrastructure Fund to support essential services to enable free and open access to scholarly work. Support provided to OA infrastructures can be short-term (e.g., seed funding) or long-term, with periodic evaluation. The EUR Library considers supporting OA infrastructures that meet the criteria outlined in the document below.
Who do we support?
The Erasmus Open Access Book Fund has supported the open access publication of the following monographs and edited collections:
- Servant-Miklos, G. (2024). Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for The End of The World as We Know It. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Exploitation as Domination - Nicholas Vrousalis - Oxford University Press
- Klijn, E. H., Koppenjan, J., Spekkink, W., & Warsen, R. (2025). Governance networks in the public sector. London: Routledge..
- Janssen, S., Kristensen, N., & Verboord, M. (Eds.). (2025). Engagement with Culture in Transformative Times: Mapping the Societal Drivers and Impacts of Cultural Understandings, Practices, Perceptions, and Values across Europe. London: Routledge.
- Edelenbos, J., & Boonstra, B. (2025). Reflexive urban governance. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Elkin, L., & Pettigrew, R. (2025). Opinion Pooling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Young, S. (2023). Working through surveillance and technical communication: Concepts and connections. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
- Berkers, P., & Wijngaarden, Y. (2025). A Sociology of Awkwardness: On Social Interactions Going Wrong. London: Routledge.
- Reijnders, S., Martens, E., Castro, D., Póvoa, D., Nanjangud, A., & Schiavone, R. (Eds.). (2024). Media, Place and Tourism: Worlds of Imagination. London: Routledge.
- Hale Hendlin, Y., Weggelaar, J., Derossi, N., & Mugnai, S. (Eds.). (2024). Being Algae. Leiden: Brill.
- Vloeberghs, W., & Bergh, S. I. (2024). Social Accountability Initiatives in Morocco, Tunisia, and Lebanon: Civic Innovation in the Arab World After 2011. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Egger, C., Magni-Berton, R., & de Saint-Phalle, E. (2024). Covid-19 Containment Policies in Europe. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
The Erasmus Diamond Open Access Fund supports the following initiatives:
The EUR library directly supports the following initiatives and infrastructure:
Contact
Erasmus Library Open Access Team
University Library
- Email address
- openaccess@eur-nl.libanswers.com
For questions, contact the Erasmus Library Open Access Team via email. A team member will respond to your email as soon as possible.