Our involvement in awarded projects

The team participates in the following funded efforts, each addressing core challenges in DOA publishing:
 
  • Infrastructures for Diamond Open Access in the Netherlands (€1.5 million): This major project builds shared technical, financial, and governance frameworks for DOA across the Netherlands and brings together the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs) network. By creating sustainable infrastructures that connect journals, books, and platforms without author fees, it directly enables researchers and institutions to participate in DOA publishing without cost barriers.​
  • Making diamond open-access books more accessible and discoverable (NUPs): This initiative improves visibility and metadata standards for DOA books, ensuring academic monographs and series reach wider audiences through better indexing and discovery tools. The benefit is increased readership and citation potential for authors, as well as improved access for the scholarly community.​
  • Enabling Open Publishing (NUPs network grant, €300,000): This grant strengthens collaboration among NUPs, including Maastricht, Tilburg, Radboud, Delft, and Groningen, to support scholar-led publishing services nationwide. The resulting benefit is expanded, coordinated support for researchers launching new journals or transitioning titles to DOA, leveraging joint expertise and infrastructure.​
Maastricht’s contributions align with our local DOA expertise, including guidance for authors and editors, as well as the new DOA tools launched through national collaborations.
 
The projects also complement “A platform for academic open access books,” in which we collaborate to enhance the open book publishing infrastructure.​ For a complete overview of rewarded projects, visit the OSNL page.

Why this matters locally

These awards highlight growing momentum for DOA as a viable alternative to APC-based models and foster equity in scholarly communication.

For Maastricht scholars, these grants mean enhanced support for launching journals, flipping existing ones to DOA, or publishing books through trusted institutional channels like MUP. Overall, national funding reinforces our services and enables researchers to publish openly without financial barriers.​

Partner network and resources

The NUPs consortium unites Dutch university presses to deliver these shared services. Visit the NUPs website at nups.nl for more on their collective work in open publishing.​

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More information and contact

Interested in Diamond Open Access?

Contact Ron Aardening or Michel Saive from the Scholarly Communication team / Maastricht University Press to explore your options, such as publishing a book or textbook, starting a journal or connecting with national projects.

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