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02 December 2024

Taylor & Francis cap has been reached

Under the Read & Publish deals that UNL signs annually with various large publishers, authors affiliated with Dutch universities can...
big deal
green road
13 November 2024

Oxford University Press hybrid cap reached

The cap for Oxford University Press (OUP) hybrid journals has now been reached, ahead of the previously forecasted date. While...
article processing charge (APC)
big deal
golden road
VSNU
08 November 2024

Percentage of Open Access articles in the Netherlands continues to grow

The share of articles by Dutch researchers published as Open Access continues to rise. In 2023, 92% of peer-reviewed articles...
DOAJ
golden road
green road
monitoring
05 November 2024

Springer 2024 Open Access cap reached

The Springer Open Access agreement for the Netherlands has been in place since 2015 and was renewed for the 2024-2026...
article processing charge (APC)
big deal
golden road
green road
VSNU
23 October 2024

Maximum number of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins open access articles 2024 reached

On Monday, October 21, the maximum number of articles eligible for open access publication in 2024 with Lippincott Williams &...
article processing charge (APC)
big deal
golden road
green road
21 October 2024

International Open Access Week – NWO upcoming call and online portfolio on Diamond Open Access

Online portfolio on diamond open access From 21 to 27 October 2024, it is International Open Access Week . This...
NWO
open access week
03 October 2024

Navigating (Diamond) Open Access Book Publishing: Four perspectives on how, why and where

Are you interested in publishing your book Open Access, but you cannot pay the hefty Book Processing Charge (BPC)? Then...
16 September 2024

Quota-based publishing agreements: Taylor & Francis, Oxford University Press, and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2024 quotas expected to be reached

Dutch university libraries have several agreements in place with different traditional academic publishers. These agreements allow corresponding authors affiliated with...
article processing charge (APC)
big deal
VSNU
05 September 2024

Call to Commitment: Petition for a fair and inclusive approach to publishing

In March 2024, during the Open Science Retreat in School (NL), a group of participants came together to discuss a...
big deal
double dipping
golden road
Open Science
03 September 2024

The 2024 maximum for free of charge open access publishing in Springer journals to be reached on the third week of October

Since 2015, corresponding authors affiliated with Dutch Universities, University Medical Centres and the KNAW institutes can publish Open Access in...
article processing charge (APC)
big deal
VSNU
16 July 2024

Wiley Journals flipping to Gold OA by 2025

The publisher Wiley announced a list of journals that will become Gold Open Access starting in 2025. These are the...
big deal
golden road
25 June 2024

Impact on ownership when choosing a CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License

When publishing open access, authors retain copyright over their work and apply an open license that states the conditions for...
Creative Commons (CC)
21 June 2024

National Open Science Festival 2024 – Registrations Now Open!

The fourth edition of the National Open Science Festival will be held on October 22, 2024, at the School of...
Open Science
11 June 2024

Higher VAT also hinders access to science

The proposed increase in the VAT rate from 9% to 21% on books will have a major impact on the...
06 June 2024

What do we want (or not want) from publishers? Looking beyond the current Dutch contract with Elsevier

On April 18, 2024 Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), NFU and NWO organised a one-day conference entitled “What do we...
article processing charge (APC)
big deal
golden road
VSNU
04 April 2024

UKB guide Predatory and Questionable Publishing Practices

The benefits of scholarly communication in authoritative, high-quality journals, books, and other venues are well known. Yet there is growing...
predatory journals
13 March 2024

Project Diamond Open Access in the Netherlands

Diamond Open Access (DOA) is a scholarly communication model that ensures immediate access to scholarly works without embargoes while preserving...
20 February 2024

Pilot Open Access monitoring launched

After a thorough preparation the UKB project group for national open access monitoring has now started the actual pilot in...
Creative Commons (CC)
monitoring
VSNU
12 February 2024

DIAMAS landscape study published

On February 1 st the European project DIAMAS on institutional/diamond scholarly publishing published their full landscape study . It contains...
10 November 2023

cOAlition S calls for feedback on a proposal "Towards Responsible Publishing"

cOAlition S – a group of international research funders that launched the Plan S initiative 5 years ago – published...

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