On July 9, 2025, Open Science NL announced a €300,000 grant to the network of institutional open access publishers in the Netherlands, known as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs).
Publishing with LWW, Springer, T&F, OUP or ACS in 2025? Be aware: national open access quotas are expected to run out as early as August. Find out when each publisher’s cap is likely to be reached — and what you can do to still make your article open access, even after the cap.
The presentation materials and insights from the event "Developing a Diamond Open Access Discovery Kit", held on May 28, are now available on the Zenodo community
Over thirty Dutch research institutions have entered into a new open access agreement with the publisher PLOS (Public Library of Science). The deal covers seven scientific journals, including PLOS ONE, and allows researchers affiliated with the participating organizations to publish open access in these journals over the next two years as part of a national consortium agreement.
Join this workshop to learn how to make your research, research support, or events (such as presentations, training, engagement activities) more open, participatory, and inclusive in the broadest sense of the word.
The fifth edition of the Netherlands National Open Science Festival will take place on 24 October 2025 at the University of Groningen. Be sure to mark your calendar!
The petition "Call to Commitment: A Future-Proof Approach to Open Access Publishing in The Netherlands" has now over 400 signatories. More are needed to inspire OA negotiations toward a sustainable publishing model.
This guide aims to support editorial teams in formulating their wishes and priorities, negotiating with their publisher, making sense of the Diamond publishing landscape and finding a route to Diamond OA that fits their journal’s aims and priorities.
