Publishing open access (OA) increases the visibility, downloads, citations, and impact of your research. Publishers often charge an Article Processing Charge (APC) for OA publishing. As a UT author, you have many options to publish OA at no cost to you. Below, you’ll find out what these options are.
Before you submit your article to a journal, visit the UT Journal Browser and follow the steps in this flowchart. It will lead to an open version of your article, regardless of your budget.
If you have any questions about OA publishing, please visit www.utwente.nl/openaccess or contact the information specialist of your faculty. They will gladly help you.
Publishing OA at no cost because of a 100% discount for UT authors Thanks to agreements between the Universities of The Netherlands (UNL) and publishers, submitting UT authors can publish OA at a 100% APC discount in more than 10.000 high-quality journals. The publisher may still charge other costs, for instance when your article exceeds the page limit.
You can find these 10.000+ journals in the UT Journal Browser. Our walkthrough shows you how to use the UT Journal Browser to get the most out of it.
Publishing OA at no cost because there aren’t any charges OA journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) contains close to 21.000 journals that all meet DOAJ’s strict requirements. Of these journals, over 13.000 currently don’t charge APCs for publishing OA. Some of those journals will charge APCs once they build an audience, but most are diamond journals that won’t charge APCs by principle. Before you submit your article to one of these journals, always check the journal’s homepage to see if they still don’t charge APCs.
You can find these 13.000+ journals in the UT Journal Browser. Our walkthrough shows you how to use the UT Journal Browser to get the most out of it.
OA platforms
Publishing on OA platforms is free of charge. Examples are platforms from research funders (e.g., Open Research Europe for EU-funded research), overlay journals on preprint servers (e.g., Episciences.org), and scholarly-led initiatives for diamond OA publishing (e.g., SciPost).
Publishing OA at no cost because of funding If the journal of your choice does charge for OA publishing, then you may be able to get funding, either from your funder (e.g., NWO, EU) or from your faculty in the case of BMS. For UT authors who publish an OA book (chapter) based on NWO funding, NWO’s Open Access Book Publication Fund can cover the cost (up to €10.000).
Always make sure to get a confirmation of intended funding before you submit your work.
Publishing OA at no cost because of the Rights Retention Strategy If your research is funded by NWO, you can use the Rights Retention Strategy to make the accepted version of your publication immediately available with a licence for re-use, even if it was originally published behind a paywall on the publisher’s website.
Making your closed publications openly available in UT Research Information If the options above are not applicable to your publication, and your publication is short (i.e., an article in a journal or conference proceedings, or a chapter in an edited collection), the University Library can make it openly available in UT Research Information at no cost. Make sure to upload all your publications to Pure (the back-end system of UT Research Information) and the University Library will do the rest. Your publication won’t be open immediately and there’s no re-use licence, but it’ll still be available to anyone with an internet connection after six months. For more information about this procedure, please click here.
