BMS has decided to open up a new BMS Open Access 2021 fund, effective as of 1 January 2021, and available (if not depleted) until the end of 2021!
BMS stimulates Open Science, in 2020 and 2019 the Faculty Board of BMS made funds available when the UT fund was depleted, and for 2021 we decided to facilitate the BMS Open Access fund 2021 for the whole year, the funds budget is 40.000€. Noting, however, that funds could be depleted before the end of the year.
BMS will reimburse (partly) publication costs for (high-quality) open-access journal articles or books/book chapters accepted in the period January-December 2021. Reimbursement depends on the criteria below and needs to be requested and paid by the section before the end of 2021.
Requirements for publication of an article in a journal
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. You can only apply for reimbursement if your article is accepted in the period Jan-Dec 2021. The publisher’s invoice has been paid by the section within 2021. BMS will reimburse the section. Article publications will be funded to a maximum of 1500€.
6. 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. It is allowed to opt for reimbursement if the journal only gives an APC discount such as BMC and MDPI, or if the yearly limit or available vouchers have been depleted for a journal/publisher (this may happen near the end of the year, e.g. for Emerald and Springer).
* For the publisher, this is the author who submits the publication and corresponds with the publisher during the publication process. So for each publication, only one author can apply for the discount. In any case, use your utwente email address when you submit your article, make sure that your affiliation on the article contains ‘University of Twente’, and when asked, indicate that you do want to publish open access.
Requirements for Book chapters & Books
Making a book Open Access is still at very high costs. As we have limited resources in the BMS fund, we need to be reserved in funding OA books. Therefore, we consider several conditions to enable a customized decision to fund (either: no, yes, or partial) and up to what amount. Excluded from reimbursement are purely educational books (textbooks), conference proceedings, dissertations, and translations. Book chapters are also eligible for reimbursement.
Main conditions
- The book/chapter publication does not result from NWO, Erasmus/EUR, UU or Delft [will be updated if needed]. These organizations have their own fund.
- Open access books must meet the demands as made in the Directory of Open access Books (DOAB). This means that the book is published under an open-access license (such as a Creative Commons license) and that peer review has taken place before publication.
- Your publication concerns a scientific book (or a chapter thereof); a long-form academic work or book on a single or multidisciplinary research topic. This includes (peer-reviewed) edited collections as well as critical editions.
- The topic has a clear BMS signature, preferably with multiple BMS authors involved or to strengthen collaboration with others within/outside UT.
- For book chapters: Criteria are similar to an article in a journal. That is, the BMS employee needs to be 1st author/corresponding author.
Additional conditions
- The book will be published in 2021 or 2022; payment needs to be in 2021.
- When applying for a contribution for an open access book, always enclose the (provisional) contract with a publisher.
- The book publication is organized under the Creative Commons license ‘CC-BY’.
- The book publication will have a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
- Books/chapters must be placed in UT RIS-PURE within one month after its publication.
Amount of reimbursement
The contribution for a book is a maximum of 6000€, and max half of the budget for the BMS OA funds can be dedicated to book publications. The contribution for book chapters is a maximum of €1500 per chapter with a maximum of two chapters per book. In the decision on the contributions, we will take into account: 1) the number of BMS authors/editors compared to non-BMS authors/editors, as well as 2) the OA costs for the entire book and 3) the co-funding of other co-authors that contribute to either the chapter or of other non-BMS chapters in the book.
How to request for BMS OA Fund reimbursement?
Get in contact soon with BMS information specialist (infospecs-bms@utwente.nl) in case you want to make use of this fund. To apply for reimbursement from the BMS OA Fund, send an e-mail to Marit/Carla and include the answers on:
1) Info on the project, and the funder (if applicable) where this publication is a result of,
2) The link (if available, else a PDF) to your accepted/published article/book/book chapter,
3) The publisher’s invoice, including confirmation of payment,
4) Info on agreements with co-authors of other institutions for the sharing of OA costs.
5) your research group’s/project OFI number for transferring the reimbursement.
Additional for books/book-chapters:
6) Short summary/abstract of the book
7) Table of contents (incl. authors (work)titles)
8) Publisher and editor(s) involved
9) Insights on the costs, cost-sharing, and/or contribution/funds by other authors, parties or institutions
More info and Contact
Check the UT Open Access info website, or the BMS Research Support on Open Access.
For advice/support contact the BMS Information Specialist (infospecs-bms@utwente.nl), or UT specialist Open Access dr. Nicole Loorbach.
