Open access in the Netherlands

{{short description|Overview of the culture and regulation of open access in the Netherlands}}

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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 {{illm|Data Archiving and Networked Services|nl}} of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{cite web |url=https://www.openaire.eu/oa-in-the-netherlands-2 |title=OA in the Netherlands |work=Open Access in Practice: EU Member States |publisher=OpenAIRE |access-date=23 March 2018}}

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.{{citation |work=Oaspa.org |url=http://oaspa.org/membership/members/ |title=Members |publisher=Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association |location=The Hague |access-date=7 April 2018}}

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%.{{cite web |title=Open Access |url=https://www.vsnu.nl/en_GB/openaccess-eng.html |publisher=Vereniging van Universiteiten |access-date=2018-04-09}} The {{ill|Society of Dutch Universities|nl|Vereniging van Universiteiten}} is negotiating big deals with publishers, where open access publication for Dutch corresponding authors is free of additional charge.{{cite web |title=Big deals and prepaid|url=http://vsnu.nl/more-impact-with-open-access/big-deals-and-prepaid.html |publisher=Vereniging van Universiteiten |access-date=2018-04-09}} In 2020, the Dutch research organised signed a four year transformative agreement with publishers Elsevier. In October 2024 it was reported that in 2023 94.6% of the publications resulting from grants from NWO and ZonMw were open access.{{cite web |title=NWO and ZonMw analyse open access publishing costs in 2023 monitor |url=https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-and-zonmw-analyse-open-access-publishing-costs-in-2023-monitorsv |website=NWO |access-date=3 November 2024}}

Repositories

There are some 36 collections of scholarship in the Netherlands housed in digital open access repositories.{{cite web |url= http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=Europe#Netherlands |title= Netherlands |work= Directory of Open Access Repositories |publisher= University of Nottingham |location= UK |access-date= 21 March 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090206084105/http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=Europe#Netherlands |archive-date= 6 February 2009 |url-status= dead }}

See also

References

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Further reading

  • {{citation |title=Leo Waaijers, Manager of SURFshare in the Netherlands |series=Open Access Interviews |url= http://richardpoynder.co.uk/The%20OA%20Interviews.htm |author=Richard Poynder |work=Open and Shut? |location=UK |year= 2007 }}
  • {{citation |author=John Houghton |title= Open Access - What are the economic benefits? A comparison of United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark |publisher= Knowledge Exchange |url=http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/event/costs-benefits-open-access |year= 2009 }}
  • {{citation |author1=John Houghton |author2= Jos de Jonge |author3= Marcia van Oploo |title= Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation |url=https://www.surf.nl/en/knowledge-base/2009/costs-and-benefits-of-research-communication-the-dutch-situation.html |publisher=SURF Foundation |year= 2009 }}
  • {{citation |title=On Open Access in The Netherlands |author= Egon Willighagen |url=https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2014/08/30/on-open-access.html |work=Chemblaics |year= 2014 }}
  • {{cite book |title=Opening the book on open access: What researchers think |publisher= Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen |isbn= 978-90-6984-705-4 |url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/news/publications/opening-the-book-on-open-access |year= 2016 }}
  • {{citation |chapter= Country Study: Netherlands |title=Landscape Study on Open Access and Monographs: Policies, Funding and Publishing in Eight European Countries |doi=10.5281/zenodo.815932 |publisher=Knowledge Exchange |author1= Eelco Ferwerda |author2= Frances Pinter |author3= Niels Stern|year= 2017 }}
  • {{cite book |chapter= Netherlands |author= Walt Crawford |title=Gold Open Access by Country 2012-2017 |url=https://waltcrawford.name/goaj.html |publisher=Cites & Insights Books |location= US |year= 2018 }} {{free access}}