Green open access
Publishing open access straightaway 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. This route is free for authors and for readers.
Utrecht University Repository
Short publications are published open access in the UU Repository. Anyone can search the Repository via UU Research Portal or the Netherlands Research Portal. All publications can also be found via the search engines Worldcat and BASE.
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 from 2015 onwards.
About the Taverne Amendment
The library uses the Taverne Amendment (Section 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act). This is part of Utrecht University open access policy. As long as you are employed by Utrecht University 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 a six-month embargo
Please 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 cannot use the Taverne scheme, because it does not meet this open access requirement.
Upload a version yourself in Pure
Would you like to make your closed short publication open access available via the Taverne scheme? Then upload the published version yourself in Pure. 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 University 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.