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

0804 edvol misc funders

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.  Individual funding bodies, both within and outside cOAlitionS, can have very different policies around open access for books, edited volumes and chapters. You

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

0402 other article type rrs

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

0903 low costs

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

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

0304 chapter ZonMW

Book chapters In its open access policy, ZonMW has not included requirements for open access publishing of books and book chapters.  If the editor of the edited volume to which you are contributing opts for diamond or gold open access, your chapter will immediately be made open access. If the editor chooses to publish behind a paywall, we recommend that you use green open access via the Taverne