As of May 2021, the UMCG has a new ‘open access policy’. In short, researchers are asked to explore their possibilities for publishing open access using the gold or hybrid routes. If such is not possible, the article will be published closed access.
Based on the ‘Taverne amendment ‘(to the Dutch Copy right law), publications by UMCG authors are automatically made open access available through the institutional repository (Pure) six months after their first publication in a journal or edited book. This amendment is implemented by the Central Medical Library.
At the UMCG, the Central Medical Library offers multiple services to facilitate open access publication.
To find out about various types of open access, how to deal with the costs of open access publishing and much more, we recommend to follow the workshop or webinar: “Are you ready for publishing open access?” provided by Central Medical Library.
General question about publishing open science? Send email
Do you want to know whether your accepted article can be published open access free of charge? Once your publication is accepted, please send the acceptance email of the journal.
We will check and inform you whether/how the manuscript can be published open access free of charge or with a significant discount.
In case the manuscript will be published closed access, the CMB will deposit the publication as green open access in the UMCG Pure repository for free.
To stimulate open access, the University of Groningen offers the following funds:
