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 University Repository via Pure 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 of UU authors. UMCU authors need to sign the opt-in form.
Short publications open access after six months
The library uses the Taverne Amendment (Section 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act) for this purpose. This is part of Utrecht University open access policy. As long as you are employed by UU or UMCU, 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.
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.
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.
Upload a version yourself in Pure
The university library usually uploads your publication in Pure. Does the library not have access to the full text? For example, because it is published in a closed journal or because it is a printed publication? Then upload a version of your work in Pure yourself. The library will then check whether this version can be made open access.