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Open Access & Scholarly Communication

Read about Open Access and scholarly communication news from within and beyond Leiden to keep up to date with the latest developments affecting Leiden researchers.

Blogs

Tips for 100% OA

Tip 2: 100% Open Access through the VSNU agreements with publishers.

A straightforward and cost-effective road towards 100% Open Access is through publishing articles in journals that are part of an agreement between VSNU and publishers.

Michelle van den Berk • 19-10-2020

Tips for 100% OA

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 • 19-10-2020

Tips for 100% OA

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 + 2 others • 19-10-2020

Plan S

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 + 1 other • 24-09-2020

Open Science

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 + 1 other • 09-07-2020

Applying copyright in times of online teaching

Due to the coronavirus situation several measures have been taken. We are all working from home as much as possible. Teaching staff are busy to facilitate online classes and other digital learning materials for their students. How can teachers best apply copyright under the changed circumstances?

Erna Sattler • 20-03-2020

Open Science

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 • 19-11-2019

Open Science

Young Academy Leiden supports Taverne pilot

To highlight Open Access Week, Young Academy Leiden is endorsing the initiative ‘you share, we take care,’ which helps scholars upload their publications in the Leiden Repository and so achieve open access via the green route.

• 25-10-2019

Open Science · Plan S

PLAN S: How can you comply with the new Open Access requirements set by your funder?

A large group of research funders has joined forces in the so called cOAlition S to include strict rules on Open Access publishing as a requirement in their policies. When you receive their funding, you must comply with the requirements of PLAN S.

Michelle van den Berk • 14-06-2019