Funding open access
Open access (OA) publishing may involve costs. These costs are also called Article Processing Charges or APCs, or Book Processing Charges or BPCs. Publishers determine how much money must be paid. This page tells you how to finance APCs for open access.
Via discount agreements with publishers (for articles)
In open access deals (also known as publisher deals), Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 or have purchased all or part of the costs for open access publishing. These deals can apply to both gold and hybrid open access journals. Sometimes the agreements apply to all of a publisher's journals, and sometimes only to a selection.
The search results in the UU Journal Browser show you where you, as a UU author, can publish open access for free (100% discount) or at a discount.
Caps for deals
Please note that some deals have a maximum number of articles per year. When the maximum (cap) is reached, you can no longer publish open access for free in this journal. Read .
Via research funders
More and more research funders are willing to pay for the cost of open access publishing in addition to funding the research. The arrangements for this are set out in the agreement with your funder. Check out the general possibilities per funder below.
Only a grant from UU or UMCU
You can probably use your grant to pay for APCs. Is this not possible? Ask your own faculty about the possibilities.
A grant from NWO or ZonMW
You can pay (part of) the costs for open access publishing from your project budget.鈥疕owever, this only applies to articles in fully open access journals. In addition, .
A grant from the European Union
You can pay (part of) the costs of open access publishing from your project budget. This applies to articles in fully open access journals and in hybrid journals, and to open access books.鈥
Does your project fall within the Horizon Europe programme? Then you cannot pay the costs for articles in hybrid journals from the project budget.
Via diamond open access
There are also many journals that do not charge publication fees. These are diamond open access journals. You can find them in the UU journal browser as gold open access journals, with the note 鈥減robably no APC costs鈥.
Via green open access
If a journal does charge fees, there is no publisher deal, and you do not have an external research funder offering a grant to pay the APCs, then the green route to open access is also an option.