Last week was Open Access week, and all departments were enjoying a cake Monday 28 October to celebrate the accomplishments of Open peer-reviewed 2018 articles in their department. BMS wants to stimulate OA publication and as the UT Open Science Fund is depleted, the Faculty Board of BMS decided to reimburse publications costs for (high-quality) open-access journal articles accepted/published in 2019.
The reimbursement is depended on the criteria below and needs to be requested before the end of 2019. If you already received reimbursement from UT open science funds you are still allowed to opt for the BMS OA funds in the case it is a new article.
You are eligible for a reimbursement if you meet each of the following conditions:
1. You are the corresponding author of the article.
2. Your employment as the author of the article is at the BMS faculty.
3. The article states the University of Twente as your affiliation.
4. The article is published in a high-quality open-access journal that is registered in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
5. The article is published in an open-access journal that has an impact factor (or is nominated for one: check Master list JCR) as presented by Journal Citation Reports (JCR) or SCImago Journal Rank (SJR). These can be found in the UT Journal Browser.
6. You can only apply for reimbursement if your article is accepted or published in the period Oct-Dec 2019 (as the UT funds was depleted since the end of September). The publisher’s invoice has been paid by the department between October 1st and December 31st, BMS will reimburse the department. The grant reimburses 100% of the publication costs, with a maximum of €1500, regardless of the journal's quartile ranking.
7. You have not received another grant for covering the cost of publishing this article open access. Reimbursements are only given for costs made by the University of Twente.
How to request BMS OA fund reimbursement?
Get in contact soon with information specialist Peter Noort (p.d.noort@utwente.nl) in case you want to make use of this arrangement. To apply for reimbursement from the BMS OA Fund, send an e-mail to Peter Noort and include 1) the publisher’s invoice, and 2) your research group’s OFI number for transferring the reimbursement.
Make sure you also upload your publication to UT Research Information(Pure).
Check BMS Research Support on Open Access
Other good alternatives
Besides the paid way of Open Access Publishing we ask your attention for the other options that are without costs:
1. If you publish in a ‘hybrid’ OA journal, you can often publish OA for free thanks to national deals with the publisher. This includes hundreds of Q1 journals like Educational Technology Research and Development or the International Journal of Human Resource Management and can be checked via the UT Journal Browser. Please note that it is crucial to address this deal (and request open access) when the article is accepted for publication.
2. If the official publication is not OA, you can still make your work available via ‘green’ Open Access: for example by making use of the Taverne amendment, or by sharing the author version that was accepted for publication in our repository the UT Research Information system (Pure).
