Open Access

Tips for 100% OA · Open Science

Finding and Reusing Open Materials for Publishing, Presenting, and Teaching

When talking about Open Science, the focus is often on making output openly available. There are many guides on publishing and sharing text, images, and data openly. But to ensure that Open Science is working as it should, it’s important that we know how to find and (re)use open materials, too.

Tips for 100% OA · Copyright

Impact on ownership when choosing an NC or ND Creative Commons Licence

Did you know you may be giving away some of your author rights to the publisher when you choose an open access licence which prohibits commercial reuse or production of derivatives (i.e. by applying a CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND or CC BY-NC-ND licence)?

The CDS Summer Training Week 2025: looking back and useful materials going forward

From 23 to 27 June, the third CDS Summer Training Week brought together over 70 participants for a series of workshops, lectures, and interactive sessions.

Breaking down open access book publishing platforms: A comparative approach to publishing choices

During her internship at the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarhsip, Sunny Liu worked on a very useful comparison framework for self-publishing book platforms. In this blog you can find out what this is and how you can use it.

Open Science

Take your next step in Open Science

Together we can make science open. Find the next step that fits your journey.

Tips for 100% OA · Open Science

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.

Open Science · Projects

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

Open Science · Plan S

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.

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?