Open access in the Netherlands explained

Scholarly communication of the Netherlands published in open access form can be found by searching the National Academic Research and Collaboration Information System (NARCIS). The web portal was developed in 2004 by the of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[1]

Brill Publishers, National Library of the Netherlands, OAPEN Foundation, Stichting Fair Open Access Alliance, Utrecht University Library, and VU University Amsterdam Library belong to the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.

Policy

The Dutch government has voiced the ambition that by 2019 60% of all publications from Dutch research universities should be published as open access, and by 2024 this should be 100%.^[2] The is negotiating big deals with publishers, where open access publication for Dutch corresponding authors is free of additional charge.^[3] In 2020, the Dutch research organised signed a four year transformative agreement with publishers Elsevier.

Repositories

There are some 36 collections of scholarship in the Netherlands housed in digital open access repositories.^[4]

See also

• Internet in the Netherlands
• Education in the Netherlands
• Media of the Netherlands
• Copyright law of the Netherlands
• List of libraries in the Netherlands
• Open access in other countries
• Plan S

Further reading

• • • • • Book: Opening the book on open access: What researchers think . . 978-90-6984-705-4 . 2016 .
  • Book: Netherlands . . Gold Open Access by Country 2012-2017 . Cites & Insights Books . US . 2018 .

External links

• Web site: Openaccess.nl . Dutch National website providing information for academics about the advantages of open access to publicly financed research . nl, en.
• Web site: Netherlands . Global Open Access Portal . UNESCO.
• Web site: . University of Southampton . UK . Open access repositories in the Netherlands.
• Web site: Netherlands . ROARMAP

  Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies

  . . UK.
• Web site: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition: Our members . . Sparceurope.org.
• Web site: (Search: Country of Publisher: Netherlands) . . Infrastructure Services for Open Access . UK .
• Web site: (Netherlands) . . 1040261573 . Harvard University . .

Notes and References

1. Web site: OA in the Netherlands . Open Access in Practice: EU Member States . . 23 March 2018.
2. Web site: Open Access . Vereniging van Universiteiten . 2018-04-09.
3. Web site: Big deals and prepaid. Vereniging van Universiteiten . 2018-04-09.
4. Web site: Netherlands . . University of Nottingham . UK . 21 March 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090206084105/http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=Europe#Netherlands . 6 February 2009 . dead .