Use the Rights Retention Strategy: Publish with a publisher while retaining sufficient rights for full open access

In this blogpost, we explain how you can publish scholarship with a publisher and yet retain sufficient rights to the publication in order to make it available in immediate open access, regardless of the distribution model of the publisher.

Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer • December 09, 2022

Open Access Week 2022: will you help to open the scholarly debate?

Open digital infrastructures can facilitate the academic discourse, change the academic publication process, make scholarly communication into a dialogue for all.

Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer, Michelle van den Berk and Kristina Hettne • October 24, 2022

Tips for making open access books

We look at seven different ways that academic authors at Leiden University have found to make their books open access, and pass on their tips.

Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer • June 04, 2021

Tip 3: Use your right to share all your peer reviewed articles after six months

‘Taverne Amendment’: Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act allows academics employed by a Dutch University to share short scientific works

Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer • October 20, 2020

Tip 1: Make all your peer reviewed articles Open Access in the Leiden Repository

All researchers at Leiden University can make use of the Leiden Repository without any costs.

Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer • October 19, 2020

Five tips to make 100% Open Access a reality

During the International Open Access week (19-26th October 2020) the Open Access Team will give daily tips to make all your peer-reviewed publications open access.

Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer, Michelle van den Berk and Kristina Hettne • October 19, 2020

Institutional publication policies and open access at Leiden University

Whilst we are on our way towards a situation where 100% open access is the norm, we look at the ways that academic libraries can help guide authors and institutes to make good decisions in the rapidly developing field of open access publishing.

Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer and Adeline van den Berg • September 24, 2020

OA Monitoring: why do we get different results?

Leiden University is 81st worldwide for open access and 1st in the Netherlands according to the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2020. But why do different ways of monitoring OA give different results?

Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer and Kristina Hettne • July 09, 2020

How flipping a journal became about more than just open access

Waltman and Wouters explain how a whole editorial board resigned from one journal and launched another open access journal, with, importantly, open citations. They share their views on the future of scholarly publishing in general.

Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer • November 19, 2019

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