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Open Access & Scholarly Communication

Read about Open Access and scholarly communication news from within and beyond Leiden to keep up to date with the latest developments affecting Leiden researchers.

Blogs

Take your next step in Open Science

Together we can make science open. Find the next step that fits your journey.

Heleen Palmen • October 30, 2024

CDS Summer Training Week 2024

June 10-14, 2024

Heleen Palmen • May 15, 2024

Predatory and Questionable Publishing Practices: How to Recognise and Avoid Them

Four open access specialists at universities across the Netherlands have now written a guide to provide insight and practical advice for authors on how to avoid questionable and predatory journals.

Tessa de Roo • April 10, 2024

What is your idea of Responsible Publishing and why it is valuable to join the new Plan S survey

cOAlitionS, a consortium of research funders including ERC and NWO, is inviting researchers to give their input their vision of responsible publishing in an online survey which is open until 22nd April 2024.

Michelle van den Berk and Rutger de Jong • November 20, 2023

Use the Rights Retention Strategy: Publish with a publisher while retaining sufficient rights for full open access

In this blogpost, we explain how you can publish scholarship with a publisher and yet retain sufficient rights to the publication in order to make it available in immediate open access, regardless of the distribution model of the publisher.

Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer • December 09, 2022

Open Access Week 2022: will you help to open the scholarly debate?

Open digital infrastructures can facilitate the academic discourse, change the academic publication process, make scholarly communication into a dialogue for all.

Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer, Michelle van den Berk and Kristina Hettne • October 24, 2022

Preprints and preregistration: making your research or research plans publicly available at an early stage.

We explored two different ways of opening up research at an early stage: preprints and pre-registration. How to go about making your research or research plans publicly available at an early stage, and what can you expect to happen after you have done so?

Michelle van den Berk, Kristina Hettne and Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam • February 28, 2022

Questionable and Predatory journals: How to spot and avoid them

In the 2021 Open Access Week, we would like to talk about peer review and maintaining high quality when publishing OA: we want to offer you some help to understand the problem with predatory journals, identify these journals in your own field, and avoid submitting your research to them.

Tessa de Roo • October 28, 2021

Tips for making open access books

We look at seven different ways that academic authors at Leiden University have found to make their books open access, and pass on their tips.

Saskia Woutersen Windhouwer • June 04, 2021