Green open access
Directly open access (OA) publishing is not always possible. For example, because there is not enough budget to pay the APC costs, or because it concerns a chapter in a book. Via the green route, you can still publish open access in the UU Repository. This route is free for authors and for readers.
UU Repository
Anyone can search the Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Repository via or the . All publications can also be found via the search engines and .
Option 1: via the Taverne scheme
The university library makes the full text of your short publication available for open access after six months. This could be a journal article, a book chapter, or an article in a (conference) volume. This will be done automatically for closed publications of UU authors. UMC Utrecht authors need to sign the opt-in form.
Tavern Amendment
The library uses the for this purpose. This is part of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ open access policy. As long as you are employed by Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ or UMC Utrecht, you may publish open access via the UU Repository in this way. Even if co-authors work for a non-Dutch organisation. Or if you receive a grant from a non-Dutch funder.
Open access after six months embargo
Note: Are you receiving a grant from a research funder that requires you to publish directly open access and with an open license? Then you do not meet this open access requirement with the Taverne scheme.
Upload a version yourself in Pure
Would you like to make your closed short publication open access available through the Taverne scheme? Then upload the published version yourself in . The library will then check if and when this version can be made open access. This may happen after the six-month embargo period via the Taverne scheme.
Option 2: via the Rights Retention Strategy
With this strategy, you publish the Author Accepted Manuscript (or AAM) directly open access in the Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Repository, under a CC-BY license.
Author Accepted Manuscripts directly open access
This fulfils any requirement by your funder to publish directly open access, even if your article is not open access with the publisher. You can also use the Rights Retention strategy if the publisher places restrictions on sharing the article.