Give the Library permission to arrange this for you
9 June 2021
In 2015 article 25fa was added to the Dutch Copyright Act; the so called ‘amendement Taverne’. Based on this article of the law, a short scientific work – which has not previously been published open but in a subscription journal – can after some time nonetheless be made freely accessible by the author. This also applies to e.g. conference papers and edited chapters.
Already 400 UvA researcher are using this right and almost 2.300 publications are made freely available. Do you also want this? The Library will arrange this for you when you give us permission using this online form.
You will give the Library permission to make – based on article 25fa Dutch Copyright Act – the publishers version (VoR) of your at the UvA published, and to be published, short scientific works freely accessible in the university repository UvA-DARE 6 months after online publication. We do this retrospectively, in first instance form 2015 onwards.
Publications will become freely accessible and findable through Google Scholar. They will be free to read, download and print for citizens, professionals, companies and other scientists all over the world. You will contribute to the realization of the 100% open access ambition of the University of Amsterdam.
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Do you have any questions? Send them to openaccess@uva.nl.