11. Who bears responsibility for making publications available open access?

Registering an article and uploading the accompanying final author version is the researcher’s responsibility. Checking the metadata is the responsibility of the Data Management and Library department. 

In case of a peer-reviewed version, DML bears responsibility to check the publisher’s conditions and to make the article available Open Access via the repository as soon as this is permitted. 

For all other types of publications, it is the author’s responsibility to set the status to either "open", "restricted" or "embargoed".