Number of Faculty of Science publications Radboud Repository still growing

The Faculty of Science is one of the frontrunners when it comes to open access publishing via the Radboud Repository. By the end of 2023, the data of 33,886 Faculty of Science publications could be found in it. 20,863 of these also had the full text linked to them, which can be accessed by anyone worldwide in open access. That is over 61.6%. A very nice result.

At the end of 2020, the percentage of total Faculty of Science publications available in open access was still 55.5%. The number of open access publications in the Radboud Repository thus shows an upward trend in both absolute and percentage terms.

As of 1 January 2024, Radboud University started using the opt-out method based on the Dutch Copyright Act. The publisher's version of short works of science will be published - six months after the first online publication - open access in the Radboud Repository, provided the author agrees. This is going to increase the number even faster.

By publishing in open access, the visibility of your research increases and your publication is more likely to be cited. Author's versions in particular are often allowed to go public worldwide quickly. If you submit the texts to us, the library will find out what the possibilities are.

Learn more about the possibilities under Dutch copyright law and the procedure we use.