Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been a pioneer in Open Access publishing for many years. AUP offers authors a variety of different options for publishing journal in Open Access, including Diamond Open Access and Subcribe to Open. AUP journals offer all required services for journals.

Amsterdam University Press portfolio includes Open Access journals and subscription journals. Our subscription journals have Green OA and delayed open access after two years. We also offer Gold Open Access for authos who require immediate OA in one of our subscription journals. 

Open Access

Green Open Access

AUP is supportive of Green Open Access initiatives and encourage authors to share the author’s version of their journal articles in institutional repositories, their personal website and on Mendeley, ResearchGate or Academia.edu and similar outlets. AUP has no embargos (delay / waiting time) for Green Open Access.

The author’s version is the manuscript after peer-review and accepted for publication, for instance as MS Word file, RTF or PDF, but not the AUP print proof or final PDF. When you share this version, please credit the article’s version of record: this is the article in the original journal on the IngentaConnect platform. Please include the DOI (digital object identifier) for chapters and journal articles (which looks like this: dx.doi.org/10.5117/XXX.X.XXX) to make it easy for readers to cite the article.
If your contribution is published as Immediate Open Access, you are free to share the official version of the PDF. 

AUP is a Sherpa Romeo Green Open Access Publisher

Diamond Open Access

A growing number of journals at AUP are fully sponsored by external funds. Articles are published in immediate Open Access and authors do not have to pay any APCs.

Subscribe to Open (S2O)

As one of the first scholarly publishers in the humanities and social sciences, AUP introduced the Diamond Open Access model Subscribe to Open. In this pioneering model, subscriptions are converted to sponsorships, allowing existing subscribers to show their support for Open Access. This model has no other income than that generated by subscriptions, so there is no "double-dipping". For more information on S2O and how it works, please see the information on Subscribe to Open Community of Practice website.

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Gold Open Access and Hybrid Journals

Often referred to as ‘Gold Open Access’, this model relies on Article Processing Charges (APCs) to fund Open Access publication within a journal. Amsterdam University Press has competitive rates for APCs, starting as low as EUR 750 (excl. VAT).
Hybrid Journals are subscription journals in  which authors can publish in immediate OA in exchange for an APC. To avoid double-dipping AUP will adjust the subscription price of a journal if a certain number of articles are published in OA on a regular basis. 

Delayed Open Access

All articles published in subscription journals are opened under a CC BY-ND-NC 4.0 license 24 months after publication.