0603 trade books

Trade books Trade books or popular science books don’t need to be published open access. These books are commonly published by regular, non-academic publishers. This allows you to make your work accessible to a broad, non-academic audience, both in terms of content and cost. This is in line with Utrecht University’s Open Science policy, even

0906 previous affiliation

Publishing work from a previous affiliation You carried out research at another university or institution before joining UU. You now wish to publish that work. Read on to find out what your options are regarding the use of:   Open access deals  Did you previously work at another university that had open access agreements with publishers? You will probably be able to make use

0401 other article type no funder

Other article types This category includes, for example: book reviews, contributions to reference works (such as handbooks, academic encyclopaedias or bibliographies), letters to the editor, commentaries, and (guest) editorials. These are often contributions made at the invitation of an editorial board, which makes it more difficult to choose your preferred open access route. For example, you cannot simply submit your contribution to

0902 knowledge equity

Knowledge equity and diversity What is knowledge equity and diversity?  Equity and diversity in publishing means there are equal chances for academic work to get funded, reviewed, published, indexed, seen and reused by anyone who can potentially benefit from it. This applies to all types of scholarly and scientific knowledge, publications and authors. Because their language, origin, ethnicity, topic or format are irrelevant

0901 impact

Publishing with impact You have indicated that you would like to know more about impact. Many authors associate ‘impact’ with the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), a commercial metric based on a journal’s citation data. An article published in such an ‘impactful’ journal is then automatically regarded as an ‘impactful’ article. But in fact, such a journal metric says

0801 edvols no funding

Edited volumes This information is for anyone involved in the publication of an edited volume in the role of editor. Are you contributing as an author? Please select ‘book chapter’ as publication type.  Utrecht University aims for 100% open access publishing, but does not make it mandatory. This means that you can publish an edited volume closed access. However, there is the chance that authors of individual chapters must