Open Access means free, unlimited access to online scholarly output, such as journal articles, research data, dissertations, and books. Open Access publications can be freely read, shared, and re-used, in accordance with the terms of their Creative Commons license.
Advantages of publishing open access
As a researcher, you can benefit from publishing your work open access in several ways: Increased visibility for your publication, more re-use of your work, wider dissemination to colleagues, and a greater chance of being cited.
Open access policy
At Radboud University we strive to reach 100% open access for scholarly publications, in a way that is affordable for all research teams, as a part of our Open Science Program. Additionally, research funders have their own open access requirements, which funding recipients must meet.
Routes to open access
Diamond: This is an academic publishing model in which a journal or platform publishes scholarly works open access without charging the authors publication fees.
Gold: You publish your article in a fully open access journal. There may be associated costs, known as ‘article processing charges’ (APCs).
Hybrid: You publish in a subscription-based journal from a publisher who makes it possible to publish individual articles open access via the payment of an article processing charge. Thanks to the national Read & Publish deals with many publishers, academics from Dutch universities can publish for free in thousands of hybrid journals.
Green: You publish the full text of your manuscript, usually the submitted version (pre-print) or the final author’s version (post-print/Author Accepted Manuscript), in the Radboud Repository.
