Predatory and Questionable Publishing Practices: How to Recognise and Avoid Them

Four open access specialists at universities across the Netherlands have now written a guide to provide insight and practical advice for authors on how to avoid questionable and predatory journals.

Tessa de Roo • April 10, 2024

The Year 2023@CDS

In this post we look back at some of the milestones and achievements made by the Centre for Digital Scholarship in 2023

Alenka Prinčič • February 12, 2024

What is your idea of Responsible Publishing and why it is valuable to join the new Plan S survey

cOAlitionS, a consortium of research funders including ERC and NWO, is inviting researchers to give their input their vision of responsible publishing in an online survey which is open until 22nd April 2024.

Michelle van den Berk and Rutger de Jong • November 20, 2023

On OA Week's Theme: Community

What is Community at the University? How might publishing and Open Science help us realise a vision for Community?

Dan Rudmann • October 23, 2023

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

Copyright and the European Commission Policy for Research

An overview of recent studies, policy, and legislation surrounding copyright and research.

Erna Sattler • November 17, 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

Preprints and preregistration: making your research or research plans publicly available at an early stage.

We explored two different ways of opening up research at an early stage: preprints and pre-registration. How to go about making your research or research plans publicly available at an early stage, and what can you expect to happen after you have done so?

Michelle van den Berk, Kristina Hettne and Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam • February 28, 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

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