Utrecht University Repository: the green route to open access
Following the green route to open access means publishing in the Utrecht University Repository.
The contents of the repository are searchable via the Netherlands Research Portal, part of the European OpenAire. All publications in the Utrecht University Repository can also be found via search engines Google Scholar and BASE.
The green route: how does it work?
Your publications need to be registered in Pure (UU intranet), the research information system used by Utrecht University. The registered publication will also be included in the Utrecht University Repository.
Short scientific publications (journal articles, conference proceedings, publications in journals for professionals and book chapters from edited volumes) that are published closed access will automatically be made open access by the library six months after the first publication. The library uses the published version (also know as the version of record) for this.
This is part of Utrecht University open access policy. Find out more about the so-called “Taverne regulation”.
Uploading your own version in Pure
The university library usually uploads your publication in Pure. Do we not have access to the full text? For example, because it was published in a closed journal or because it is a printed publication? Then please upload a version of your publication in Pure yourself. The library will then check whether the publication can be made open access.
Preferably upload the published version. Can't do that? Then upload the Author Accepted Manuscript. Can't do that either? Then upload the preprint. Below are explanations of the versions:
- Published version (or Publisher’s PDF, VOR, Version of Record): This is the final version of an article. The published version will have a DOI from the journal.
- Postprint (or Author Accepted Manuscript, AAM, accepted version, accepted manuscript (AM): This version has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication. But, it has not yet been formatted for the journal.
- Pre-print (or submitted version, Author’s Manuscript, original manuscript): This version is the original submission to a journal. It has not yet been peer-reviewed.
Rights Retention strategy
From 2021 onwards, authors receiving funding from a cOAlitionS funder (which includes NWO and ERC) are obliged to make their publications openly available without an embargo period. For articles published in closed journals, you can still meet this requirement by making use of the Rights Retention Strategy. RRS allows authors to share their work in the final author's version (Author Accepted Manuscript) immediately and under a CC-BY license, even if the publisher places restrictions on this.
Questions?
About Pure: please ask your faculty administrator responsible for Pure (intranet).
About the Utrecht University Repository: send an email to Library.publishingsupport@uu.nl.