Leiden University and the LUMC are committed Open Science and the National Open Science Plan. Both institutions consider Open Access (OA) publishing a priority and expect you to publish your scholarly articles as openly as possible. We aim to encourage OA publishing by making it simple and feasible in every discipline. Making research publications OA allows society as a whole to benefit from Leiden University and LUMC research output and increases the visibility of your publications and the research you are performing.

You may be thinking of writing up your research findings into an article, or perhaps you already have a manuscript ready to submit to a journal. In either case, you want to make sure that you make the right choices for your publication. 

In this module we explain what OA means, what your OA options are, and where you can find the information you need to make the best choice for your publication.