Erasmus University Rotterdam offers various ways to make your research available Open Access, so that there is a suitable solution for every situation.
Publishing Open Access
Take into account that publishing Open Access with a publisher can entail a publication fee (on average € 2,000). This can be overcome at an early stage by including these costs when applying for a research fund. You can also choose to publish in a journal that does not charge publication fees (see Directory of Open Access Journals.
Publisher Deals
The University Library has already covered the publication fees for most journals of renowned publishers in so called Publisher Deals. This means that as an EUR researcher you can publish your research Open Access with these journals free of charge.
Authors are responsible for making financial arrangement to cover the costs of Open Access publication in journals that are not part of these agreements. From their research budget or faculty for example.
Open Access policy
All short scientific works published by Erasmus University employees, which are not directly published Open Access via a publisher, will automatically be made publicly available through Pure in the publisher’s version after a 6-month embargo. This policy is based on Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act (Taverne Amendment).
If an author wishes a publication not to be made publicly available under Article 25fa of the Copyright Act, the EUR offers the possibility to opt-out.
For more information, please go to Open Access Regulation.
More on Open Access at EUR
The European Commission, most national research funding bodies and the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) consider Open Access publishing a priority. The aim is to make 100% of the publicly funded scientific publications Open Access.
At the Erasmus University, Open Access is the publication standard for short scientific work. Therefore, all EUR-researchers are required to make their publications Open Access, either by publishing in an Open Access journal or by making a version of the work available through the institutional repository Pure.
Most research funding organizations require publications resulting from their grants to be published Open Access. Follow the links below to find out more about the Open Access policies of the most relevant research funding organizations in the Netherlands:
If you are financed by a different funding organization, please consult the Jisk Open Policy Finder database to find out about your funders’ Open Access requirements.
Plan S is an initiative of cOAlition S, a consortium of funders that wants to accelerate the transition to Open Access. Plan S requires that all publications arising from research that is funded by affiliated research funders are made available Open Access, without embargo.
In the Netherlands, Plan S concerns publications funded by NWO and ZonMw grants under calls published as of 1 January 2021.
Three routes to Plan S compliance:
- Publication in an Open Access journal or platform registered in the Directory of Open Access Journals and complying with the relevant technical guidance and requirements of Plan S.
- Publication in a closed or hybrid subscription journal and immediate (without embargo) deposition of a copy of the publication (the Version of Record or at least the Author Accepted Manuscript) in an Open Access repository registered in the Directory of Open Access Repositories and complying with the relevant technical guidance and requirements of Plan S.
- Publication in a journal for which a Transformative VSNU Agreement exists or in a journal that has been accepted by cOAlition S as a Transformative Journal.
NWO requires that publications are made available in Open Access immediately (without embargo). For authors who want to use the green route, cOAlition S has developed the “Rights Retention Strategy”. This strategy ensures that authors retain the right to share their work in Open Access immediately and under an open licence, even in case of restricting policies of publishers. For more information on how to use the Rights Retention Strategy, visit the website on NWO.
Flowchart: How do I publish Open Access?
Contact information
- Open Access and Publication Support Team
University Library
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