How to publish open access?

Publishing & green open access at the EUR

You have to register your articles yourself in Pure. Read how to do this on this webpage. In short:

• Go to Pure and log in with your ERNA id and password
• Register your article in Pure within 6 months after publication
• Include all relevant details such as Title, Author(s), DOI, Email address of corresponding author, Journal, etc.
• Upload the accepted version of your publication (final author version, without publisher formatting) to RePub (Green route)

Gold open access

• To check for publisher deals (APC reimbursement) see the journal browser on https://www.openaccess.nl/ or use the EUR journal browser
• To check whether the combination of your journal, funder and institution is compliant with Plan S, use the Journal Checker tool.
• In case a journal is not on this list and there is no funding from a project to cover the open access fees, there is an Erasmus Open Access Fund that can cover the fee. For more information please have a look here

Use an open license: CC-BY

Journals often offer multiple licensing possibilities. It is best to choose the most open license, preferably CC-BY 4.0. Try to avoid using non-derivative (ND) and non-commercial (NC) licenses. For more information, check out this documentation on choosing a license.

Use your ORCID

When publishing anything, always use your ORCID. This allows all your works to be associated with you, not someone with accidentally the same name, independent of your work or email address. Read all about ORCID in this EUR libguide. Some nice-to-knows:

• Institutions have organization identifiers. For EUR, use "Erasmus University Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NL".
• Automatic syncing: Under "Works" > "Search and link", allow parties like Crossref and DataCite access to your ORCID, so all your works linked to them will appear in your record automatically!
• The peer review category appears only if your publisher indicates that or when you use Publons. This will make explicit how much work you spend reviewing.

Check the quality of an (open access) journal

How do you know whether or not you found a trustworthy (open access) journal for your publication? Please pay attention to the following requirements:

• The journal has an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)
• The publisher is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publisher Association and the journal is included in the DOAJ
• The journal is connected to or is sponsored by a scientific institute or society
• All articles have a DOI
• The journal is not part of this list of dubious publishers
• The content area of the journal is clearly described and the articles are in line with this description
• The target group of the journal are researchers and scientific teachers
• The editorial board consists of renowned/well-known researchers from the discipline
• The costs of publishing open access are clearly mentioned
• The user licenses are clearly mentioned in each article

You can also check the scoring of the journal here.

Resources

• Transpose, a database of journal policies on peer review, co-reviewing and preprinting
• A repository for open access books can be found in OAPEN and via DOAB (Directory for Open Access Books)
• Read more about open access in The Turing Way