Book chapters

Check with your funder what requirements they set for making your book open access, and if you are allowed to pay any publication costs from your research budget. Is there no need to publish open access immediately? Then we advise you to make use of Green open access. 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, and your funder does not require immediate open access, we recommend that you use green open access via the Taverne scheme. 

Green open access  

What is Green open access, via the Taverne scheme? 

• The book to which you are contributing will be published as closed access.
• Six months after publishing, your chapter will be made open access via the UU Repository. 
• This route is free of charge for authors. 
• The open-access version will be subject to the same licence as the closed version. 

How do I follow this route? 

Upload the chapter to Pure if it isn’t already there. The university library will take care of the rest.