{"id":90485,"date":"2018-10-10T15:55:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T13:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=90485"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:23:07","slug":"six-things-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-open-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2018\/10\/10\/six-things-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-open-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Six things you always wanted to know about Open Access"},"content":{"rendered":"

If it is up to the European Union, all scholarly publications will be able to be accessed by the public free of charge, starting from 2020. At present, universities are required to pay major publishers a fortune for the right to access scholarly publications. We asked six questions about Open Access. You will find the answers below.<\/p>\n

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For years now, the international academic Open Access movement has fought an economic model dominated by academic publishers, some of which have reported greater profits than Apple, Facebook or Google. But how can academia bring about a switch to Open Access?<\/p>\n

On Tuesday afternoon, the university hosted an event designed to raise awareness of Open Access<\/a>. Leonidas Pakos, the University Library\u2019s Licences & Open Access Specialist, answered the six questions about Open Access you always wanted to ask.<\/p>\n

What is the problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe way things are done at the moment, society pays for access to scientific research in at least two ways. First scientists are paid to conduct their research using Dutch taxpayers\u2019 money. In order to distribute the study results, universities will then seek a publisher who will publish them. This will involve their paying more money to be able to read the publication, be it through a subscription plan or through a licensing plan. Hopefully, Open Access will change this.\u201d<\/p>\n

What exactly is\u00a0 Open Access?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are several definitions, but it basically boils down to making your scholarly publications available to the public free of charge. In a nutshell, study results can be publicised in different ways, using either the green route or the gold route. Authors who opt for the green route post a plain-text version of their study report, which is to say, without any formatting by the publisher, to an institutional repository<\/em>, i.e., a university\u2019s public archive. Authors who opt for the gold route have their publications made available to the public at once. In such cases the publishers will still charge article-processing charges <\/em>(APC) to offset their editing and production costs. In other words, there will still be two payments involved, but at least the publication will be made available to everyone at once.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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