Open Science

The ambition of the Netherlands is to achieve 100% open access. Agreements have been made with many publishers about open access publishing.

Main outcomes of the second consultation meeting on Plan S

On 31 January 2019, NWO and ZonMw organized a consultation meeting on Plan S.

20,000 open access articles through VSNU agreements

Since 2014, the statistics of the 'read and publish deals' have been updated nationally on openaccess.nl.

DataverseNL seminar on 14 February 2019

On 14 February 2019 the DataverseNL community organises a seminar about DataverseNL at DANS in The Hague.

Open day on Open Science: Love to share data

DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) organizes an "Open day on Open Science: Love to share data" on February 14, 2019, 12:00-17:00h CET at NWO, The Hague.

Dutch universities and Elsevier: six-month extension to current license agreement

The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and information analytics business Elsevier are to extend their current agreement by six months.

European Open Science Cloud officially launched

On Friday 23 November the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was officially launched in Vienna at an event hosted by the Austrian Presidency of the European Union.