Publishing a Book in Open Access

"If I publish my book in open access, it won’t sell", is a commonly heard complaint among authors. In reality, the contrary appears to be true. Many publishers have discovered that publishing in open access actually stimulates sales. People use the internet to discover books, not read them. If a book is available throughout the world, it can be seen by any potential reader, which makes them more willing to buy a copy. Visibility is essential.

More information
Read more about publishing books. 

Questions?
Please send an email to openaccess@uva.nl.

Publishing a Doctoral Thesis

Are you pursuing a doctorate at the UvA? If so, you must submit both a printed and a digital version of your thesis for online publication. Digital versions of all UvA theses are stored in the UvA’s academic archive and, subject to copyright, published on UvA-DARE. This is the website on which the University presents its academic publications.

More information
Read more about publishing your doctoral thesis. 

Questions?
Please send an email to dissertaties@uva.nl or call +31 (0)20 525 29 85 / +31 (0)20 525 53 85.

Publishing an Article in Open Access

Open access agreements have been made for almost 9,000 of the approx. 30,000 journals to which the UvA Library subscribes. UvA researchers can often publish in these journals using open access with 100% discount.

More information
Read more at the Library's website.

Questions?
Please send an email to openaccess@uva.nl.

Publishing Data Outside the UvA

Once you have completed your research project, you can publish your data in a data archive. You may choose UvA/HvA figshare or a field-specific data archive elsewhere. RDM Support will be happy to help you find the right data archive.

Costs
There may be costs involved in publishing data outside the UvA.

More information
Read more about publishing data. 

Questions?
Please send an email to rdm-support@uva.nl

Publishing Data using UvA/HvA figshare

Is the organisation funding or publishing your research asking you to share your data? Assuming the information is not under embargo, you can do this quite simply in UvA/HvA figshare. Your file will be assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), a unique permanent link that you can add to articles or presentations.

More information
Read more about publishing data in UvA/HvA figshare. 

Questions?
Please send an email to rdm-support@uva.nl.