When using the work of others, accurate source referencing is mandatory. There are different referencing styles you can use to format your source references. The most common reference style in the Netherlands is the APA Style. However, other styles are also being used. Each style enables you to mention your sources correctly. The page Reference styles gives you a brief overview of the most commonly used styles. More information Citing sources

There are different source referencing styles. Each style enables you to mention your sources correctly. The most widely used reference style in the Netherlands is the APA Style. However, other reference styles are also being used. The page Reference styles gives you a brief overview of the most commonly used styles. More information Citing sources

Creative Commons (CC) is an organisation that has developed a number of copyright licences. They allow a creator to give others advance permission to reuse their work free of charge. This reuse includes both copying and public disclosure. We strongly recommend using the CC licence to publish your own material. More information Creative CommonsTerms and conditions of use

According to the Budapest Open Access Initiative, an article offers open access if it is freely available to be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed or searched. It means the author has retained the copyright but granted a non-exclusive licence for comprehensive (re)use. The latter allows you to make the work accessible online or use it as a resource for lectures. It is therefore important to know how much room a certain copyright leaves for open access publication. More information Budapest Open Access InitiativeOpen Access

A repository is a system that stores information in various forms (for example text, datasets, images and sound) together with metadata. Higher education institutions use such repositories to offer their publications and research data. In the Netherlands, publications and research data in repositories of universities of applied sciences and research universities are made available on a national scale by the HBO Kennisbank and the Netherlands Research Portal. The latter succeeded the former Dutch portal for research information NARCIS. More information SURFsharekitHBO KennisbankNetherlands Research Portal (openaire.eu)

Sherpa Romeo is the main source of information for the open access policy of scientific publishers. Romeo stands for RightsMEtadata for Open archiving. The database gives a uniform and clear overview of the open access options specific journals offer. More information Sherpa Romeo

Both houses of the Dutch parliament adopted the Taverne amendment in 2015. The amendment was included as Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act: an author of a short scientific work can make this work publicly available after a reasonable period of time, provided that the work is based research that was at least partly financed with government funds. Every author of a scientific work has this right, so you don't need to be a corresponding author or first author to use it. The work can be made available in an institutional repository or on a personal website, for example....

A copyright holder can grant a licence to publish to permit a certain person to exploit their work in a certain way.For example, the author of a book can grant their publisher a licence to print their book. More information Sample licence