NWO | Open Access Route Planner

0603 trade books

Law, Economics and Governance No external funding Knowledge equity Trade book Optional

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

Humanities No external funding Publishing work from previous affiliations Professional publication Optional

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

0802 edvol nwo

Veterinary Medicine NWO Knowledge equity Edited volume (as editor)

Edited volumes This information is for anyone involved in publication of an edited volume in the role of editor. Do you contribute as an author? Please select ‘book chapter’ as publication type. NWO also makes open access mandatory for edited volumes. However, the conditions are less stringent: an open licence is not compulsory, and an embargo period of up to twelve

0402 other article type rrs

Science NWO Impact Other article type (letter to editor, book review, etc.)Optional

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 a journal or publisher, which makes it more difficult to choose an open access route. For example, you cannot simply submit your contribution to another

0904 publishing post-UU rrs

Science NWO Publishing after the end of your contract Book chapter Optional

Publishing after the end of your UU contract You are currently carrying out research whilst employed by Utrecht University, but you do not expect to publish this research until after you have left the university. Read here to find out what your options are regarding the use of: Open access deals You can still make use of open access deals

0903 low costs

Science No external funding Low costs Professional publication Optional

Budget-friendly open access You have indicated that you would like to know more about low-cost options. Do you have little or no research budget available to cover publication costs? And would you like to publish open access? When you publish an article, book or book chapter, the following options involve little to no cost to you as the author:

0902 knowledge equity

Medical Sciences No external funding Knowledge equity Professional publication Optional

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

Science No external funding Impact Article Optional

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

0057 LEG

Law, Economics and Governance No external funding Knowledge equity Research article Optional

Faculty policy The Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance does not prefer a specific open access route for publishing.

0056 SocSci

Social and Behavioural Sciences No external funding Publishing after the end of your contract Article Optional

Faculty policy The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences stimulates diamond open access publishing. The faculty has a fund available for diamond journals and platforms.