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Open Access publishing is a publishing model that aims to make academic research freely available and accessible. To learn more about Open Access publishing and the different varieties check out our Open Access page on the Radboud University website here.
Radboud University Press is a Diamond Open Access publisher which means that all of our digital publications are made available free online for anyone, anywhere to read. It also means that no article or book publishing charge (APC or BPC) is applicable for the authors except when funding is provided specifically for open access publication fees.
Diamond Open Access Publishing makes our content accessible to a global audience regardless of economic status. We allow authors to publish their findings based on the quality of their work and not on the availability of funding.
Open Access publishing removes barriers around the sharing and reuse of content, allowing scientists to build on research published by others, maximising the academic and social impact from research projects.
To stimulate open science, large scientific organizations in the Netherlands such as KNAW, VSNU, and NWO, have stated that publicly funded research must be published in Open Access from 2021 onwards. As a Diamond Open Access digital publisher we are committed to supporting this growing movement to open science.
All of our content is published under the terms of Creative Commons Licences, which ensures that copyright remains with authors and editors. If you publish with us, you retain ownership of your work. The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. They give everyone a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The combination of tools and users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law.
Our recommended licence is CC-BY as this is best aligned to the principles of Open Access as defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and recommended by the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). The CC-BY licence allows readers to copy, redistribute, remix, and build upon the publications, as long as a clear attribution to the source and author(s) are given. This allows for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.