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Monographs

NWO also requires books to be published in open access. However, the conditions are less strict: an open licence is not mandatory, and an embargo period of up to twelve months is permitted. After twelve months, the book must be made available via open access in a repository (and in any case in the OAPEN Library). You can meet the requirements via these open access routes:

  • Diamond open access
  • Gold open access
  • Green open access, within twelve months via the OAPEN Library

Diamond open access

What is Diamond open access?

  • Publication is immediately open access.
  • This route is free of charge for authors.
  • Publication has an open licence (CC BY, if necessary CC BY-NC and/or -ND).

How does the funding work?

In Diamond open access the author does not have to pay publication costs. The publishers are funded by the academic community. Some publishers ask for a voluntary contribution. Some faculties have a fund available for this (see Faculty policy).

Where do I find publishers and more information?

Gold open access

What is Gold open access?

  • Publication is immediately open access.
  • Involves publication costs (BPCs).
  • Publication has an open licence, preferably CC BY.

How does the funding work?

You are allowed to pay the BPCs from your research budget. If your book is published once your NWO contract has ended, you may call upon the NWO book fund for an extra contribution of up to €10,000.

Please note: Some publishers also offer a ‘delayed open access’ option. This means that a book will be made open access after an embargo period at lower BPCs. We advise against this option due to the risk of ‘double dipping’. Is your budget not sufficient for immediate open access? If so, delayed open access may be an option to meet the NWO requirements to publish open access within twelve months after all. It is not entirely clear whether you are permitted to use your NWO research budget for this. When in doubt, please contact NWO.

Where can I check if a publisher publishes open access?

In the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) you can find a list of publishers who have experience publishing open access books (gold or diamond).

Green open access

Green open access for books is always part of negotiations with the publisher. Many publishers allow you to share one or some chapters via a repository. Sometimes you may share the entire book after an embargo period. You also negotiate about the version that may be shared (AAM or VoR) and the licence the open access version gets.

What is Green open access?

  • You publish a book closed access with a publisher.
  • No later than twelve months after publication, you share a version of your book via the OAPEN Library, a repository for books. 
  • You can also make (parts of) the book open access via the UU Repository.
  • This route is free of charge for authors.
  • The licence for the open access version depends on the agreements you have with your publisher. 
    • If you share the publisher’s version (‘Version of Record’), it will likely be subject to the same licence as the closed version. 
    • If you share the accepted manuscript, it will likely be subject to an open licence.

How does the funding work?

This route of open access publishing is free of charge.

How do I follow this route?

Specify in your contract with your publisher whether you are permitted to share (part of) the book in open access. If so, state which chapters, when, which version (AAM or VoR) and under which licence (preferably CC BY).

  • For publication in the OAPEN Library: Your publisher uploads book to the OAPEN Library. 
  • For publication in the UU Repository: Upload the book, the chapters or the chapter to Pure if it is not already there. Indicate when the library may make it open access and under which licence. The university library will take care of the rest.