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About UTpublications
UTpublications contains full text scientific publications, like journal articles, conference papers, research reports and dissertations from scholars of the university. This repository is part of a global network of scientific information and is explored by various services such as Google Scholar.
An important national service is NARCIS, the national "gateway to Dutch scientific information", which provides access to full text scientific and scholarly publications archived in academic repositories in the Netherlands. Similar international services are OAIster, BASE and Scientific Commons.
Advantages for authors
You can safely store your full text publications in this repository in order to safe them properly and, when copyrights allow, offer it openly accessible. Storage of your publications in UTpublications has the following advantages:
- Better visibility of your (scientific) publications
- Higher citation records
- Long-term preservation of and access to your publication by automatic transfer to the e-depot of the National Library of the Netherlands
The University of Twente supports the principle of Open Access to Knowledge in Sciences and Humanities and has signed the Berlin Declaration.
Copyright issues
Storing your publication in UTpublications primarily means archiving your scientific work in order to keep it safely. Only after a careful copyright-check by the library the full text publication in the repository will be accessible on the open Internet. In case you are the owner of the copyright, storage of your publication in the repository does not affect this.
How to retain the rights to publish on the open Internet
Most publishers of scientific journals demand the author to transfer the copyright of an accepted article. Authors are asked to sign a copyright agreement in which the publisher is granted the rights to publish the article.
There are nearly as many publishing agreements as there are publishers. Practically every publisher has its own agreement containing the terms and conditions under which it wishes to publish an article.
In many cases the copyright agreement contains a restriction of your rights to publish your article in other media. Often the signing of a publishers' copyright agreement means you are not allowed to publish your article on your own website, the website of your organization or by means of an institutional repository. This has a clear negative effect on the exposure of your scientific work.
For an author it is sometimes difficult to distill from the agreement the provisions which provide the author the opportunity to have optimal access to the journal article.
If you want to be sure that you retain all the rights needed for optimal access you could use the Licence to publish (pdf or doc) / Licentie tot publiceren (pdf or doc). This licence to publish enables you to retain copyright but giving the publisher the rights to publish your work.
More information about copyrights you can find at http://copyright.surf.nl/copyright/.