Open Access is intended to enable unlimited and worldwide sharing of knowledge and information. This includes providing free online access to research. In alliance with scientists, academics and other libraries, TU Delft Library is developing applications to make Open Access publishing possible. 

Examples include the TU Delft Repository and the 3TU.Data Centre. Publishing in the TU Delft Repository and in Open Access can offer benefits for academics.

The cost of publishing in Open Access

On average, the author’s fee for an Open Access article is €1500. Certain publishers (OUP, RSC, BioMed and ASC, for example) offer you a discount on the author’s fee because TU Delft has agreed licences with them. 

Hybrid Open Access journals

In addition to Open Access journals, there are also some journals that only partially apply the principles of Open Access. These journals include a combination of Open Access articles, paid for by the author, and articles that are accessible on subscription only. This is the case with some Elsevier journals, for example, or some online journals which do not apply Open Access principles to all their academic publications. An agreement made with Springer makes it possible to publish the scientific papers in Open Access modus for free untill juli 2012. 

TU Delft and Open Access journals 

Currently TU Delft is affiliated with the following Open Access Journals

Heron is a joint publication by TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, Delft, and the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Construction. Started 1953 

European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research EJTR is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, freely accessible through the internet and aims to present the results of high-quality scientific research to a readership of academics, practitioners and policy-makers. Started 2000

Footprint  is an academic journal dedicated to publishing architecture and urban research. Architecture and urbanism are the points of departure and the core interests of the journal. Started 2007

Hydrology and Earth Systeem Sciences is an international two-stage open access journal for the publication of original research in hydrology, placed within a holistic Earth System Science context. Started in 1997 

HESS-Discussions and peer-review of submitted papers are handled in the open access discussion journal HESSD. Started in 2011

Drinking Water Engineering and Science aims to be the leading scientific open access journal for the publication of original research in drinking water treatment. Started 2008 

Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation publishing high quality original research papers and survey papers which evidently contribute to deeper insight. It is an electronic medium, guaranteeing fast publication. Started 2005  

Mechanical Sciences intends to be an international forum for dissemination of original contributions in the field of theoretical and applied mechanics. Started 2011

AB+E  Architecture and the Built Environment publishes exclusively PhD theses of the TU Delft Graduate School of Architecture and the Built Environment. Started 2011

Open Access Fund

TU Delft faculties or research groups are themselves responsible for funding the Open Access publications of their academics. If a faculty is unable to pay the author’s fee, TU Delft Library can assist by financing all or part of it from the Open Access Fund, which was founded in 2008. Your publications needs to be reviewed by a recognized publisher who operates with Open Access as a business model. The scope of the Open Access Fund is limited to sponsoring articles that are published in journals that are not included in the subscriptions of TU Delft Library.

The Open Acces Fund is also available for the (co) sponsoring of books and bookchapters of scientific origin.

Questions

If you have any questions about publishing in Open Access or the Open Access Fund, please contact Ask Your Library, our customer service.