1. THANK YOU!

Quite a few people contributed greatly to this experiment.

• Eelco Ferwerda started all this by suggesting the topic.
• Dr. Thomas Adelaar challenged and guided me throughout the writing of this paper, together with Roger Pruppers.
• Saskia de Vries, director/editor in chief of Amsterdam University Press (AUP), enabled me to run this experiment.
• Hans Scholte delivered more – and better – statistics on the use of the AUP repository than I hoped to get.
• I benefited greatly from discussions and suggestions by Janneke Adema, Stefan Buddenbohm, Paul Rutten and all members of AUP’s Digital Advisory Board.
• My colleagues at Amsterdam University Press were helpful in many ways, as were the people from the Digital Production Centre of the Amsterdam University Library.
• Sanne Sauër kindly checked my English.
• My family and friends supported me by not minding my absence – again.
• My daughter Charlotte helped to keep things in perspective by always joking about ‘daddy’s little school’.

But most of all I would like to thank my wife Dorien. Without her love and patience I could not have written this paper.