On this page you can find more information about openly publishing your research for EEMCS employees.
Open Access?
Most currently published research is openly available for anyone instead of being closed off behind paywalls: Open Access. With this shift away from paywalls, publishers have also changed their revenue models accordingly: open access generally requires authors to pay for publishing their work. Although the university has publishing agreements with most major academic publishers to cover those fees, it is always necessary for researchers to check before submitting their work to a journal if there are any publication costs involved, and if they are covered or not, as more and more journals only publish open access articles; removing the option to publish behind a paywall without costs for the author.
Furthermore, the UT Open Access policy also states it strongly prefers all research published by its researchers to be openly available as soon as possible. Finally, most academic funders (e.g. Horizon, NWO) require researchers to publish all funded works open access immediately.
For support, please get in touch with your faculty's information specialist. For non-EEMCS specific Open Access questions the UT's Open Access Team can also help you. You can reach them by email via open-access@utwente.nl.
Checklist
Below you can find a basic checklist to use to guide you through the open access process. A more thorough flowchart of this process can be found on the Open Access page on the Service Portal. If you get stuck during this process, please get in touch with us.
F.A.Q.
Is Open Access mandatory?
Yes, making your work openly accessible within 6 months at the latest is required by university policy. Furthermore, external funders like NWO and the European Commission have specific, often stricter, OA mandates. More specifically, you are minimally expected to do the following:
1. Adhere to your funder's specific OA requirements, for example those of NWO, Horizon, or ZonMW.
2. Use the UT Journal Browser to find journals that comply with UT and funder policies and preferably have a publishing deal with us that covers the publication costs.
3. Once your manuscript is accepted,register your publication in Pure and upload the VoR (Version of Record) and/or the AAM (Author's Accepted Manuscript), and finally the final version once published.
How do I know if an APC is discounted or covered by a deal?
The University of Twente has agreements with many publishers that offer full or partial discounts on APCs. The UT Journal Browser is the definitive source to check if a specific journal is covered by a deal. It provides information on discount levels, supported OA types, and the specific workflow to follow. You can also take a look at the Most common publishers per research group overview on this page to see where your colleagues published most often; it also includes publishing deal information.
How can I openly publish my work if there is no funding available for APCs?
There are several options.
Publish in a Diamond OA journal: These journals do not charge APCs. Use the DOAJ and filter for journals with "no APCs".
Use the Taverne Route: Publish in a subscription journal of your choice. After publication, upload the final published version (VoR) to Pure. It will be made publicly available after 6 months.
Green Open Access (Self-Archiving): Upload your Author's Accepted Manuscript (AAM) to Pure. It will be made available after any publisher-stipulated embargo period.
Who can help me?
Support for OA publishing is done by your faculty's information specialist. For non-EEMCS specific Open Access questions you can also get in touch with the UT's Open Access Team by emailing open-access@utwente.nl.
Top Publishers
You can browse an overview of published article counts for the most common EEMCS publishers in the table below. You can view the data for EEMCS or a specific research group by using the dropdown menu. The data includes journal articles published from 2022 until the middle of 2025.
You can click the name of the publisher to open up a journal browser search for all journals by this publisher. The column 'Publication Deal?' indicates if the UT has an active publishing deal: if true, you can click the 'Y' to read the details of the deal on openaccess.nl, including instructions on how to submit.
This data is meant to give a quick overview. For more details on UT-published works, visit https://research.utwente.nl/. For more specific data requests and analysis, please get in touch with your information specialist.
Glossary
Term | Definition |
|---|---|
APC (Article Processing Charge) | A fee charged by OA journals to make an article available open access immediately upon publication. |
Preprint | The author's initial version of a manuscript before peer review. Most publishers allow preprints to be shared before submitting to a journal, but not all. |
AAM (Author's Accepted Manuscript) | The version of the manuscript that has been accepted for publication after peer review, but before the publisher's copy-editing and formatting. |
VoR (Version of Record) | The final, published version of the article, including copy-editing, typesetting, and branding from the publisher. |
Embargo | A period set by the publisher during which access to an article is restricted, often applying to sharing the AAM or VoR in a repository. |
Bronze OA | An open access model where work is freely readable, but not under a fully open license like CC-BY. This is often a publisher-specific license with more restrictions on re-use. |
Hybrid OA | An open access model where authors can choose to pay an APC to make their work openly available (similar to gold OA) or not. |
Green OA | An open access model where a work is made freely available in a repository hosted by their institute (e.g. research.utwente.nl), often with a more restrictive license. See: Taverne amendment. |
Gold OA | An open access model where authors pay APCs, and all works in the journal are published under a fully open license like CC-BY. |
Diamond OA | An open access model where journals are free for both authors and readers (no APCs). You can find them in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) or in our Journal Browser. |
Taverne Amendment | A clause in Dutch copyright law that allows researchers to share the VoR of their short scientific works six months after publication, regardless of publisher restrictions, but without a fully open license. Find more information on openaccess.nl. |
Rights Retention | A strategy where you, the author, declare that you retain the right to share your AAM immediately upon publication with a CC BY license. Visit the Plan S site for more information. |