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06 October 2015

Open Access symposium "Research without paywalls"

On 22nd October the University of Groningen Library hosts the symposium Research without paywalls - Chances and challenges of open...
open access week
05 October 2015

Conference: Connecting Data for Research

A conference on research data is held in the auditorium of VU University at De Boelelaan in Amsterdam on Monday...
open access week
29 September 2015

Radboud University organizes debate

“Open Access: Who Takes the Plunge?” On Monday 19 October 2015 during lunchtime (12.00 pm- 2.00 pm) Radboud University organizes...
open access week
21 September 2015

Follow up for Dutch Springer deal in Austria

Springer and the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (AALC/Kooperation E-Medien Österreich/KEMÖ) have finalized a wide-ranging agreement for a new Springer Compact...
18 September 2015

Urgent call Dekker on Spinoza prize laureates

In his speech at the presentation of the Spinoza prizes , State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science Sander Dekker...
31 August 2015

www.openaccess.nl completely overhauled

The national website on open access has been completely revamped. It now has a new, up-to-date look and is more...
03 August 2015

NWO modifies its criteria for open access publishing

NWO has modified the criteria for its Incentive Fund Open Access - Publications. Main applicants for NWO-funded research can apply...
NWO
07 July 2015

Amendment to Copyright Act

In the wake of the Dutch House of Representatives, the Senate has also adopted the amendment proposed by MP Taverne...
07 July 2015

UKB signs The Hague Declaration on open science

UKB , a consortium of 13 university libraries and the National Library of the Netherlands, has signed and therefore endorsed...
06 July 2015

Universities take first step towards Elsevier boycott

Dutch universities have activated their plan to boycott Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher. They took the first step in...
big deal
05 July 2015

Agreement with SAGE

SAGE publishers and Dutch universities have signed a two-year agreement on the transition to open access. This agreement enables researchers...
big deal
28 May 2015

1.000.000 records in NARCIS

The repository team from the University of Groningen University achieved that the number of publications that can be accessed via...
green road
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01 May 2015

Discussion on Open access: How can we make scientific knowledge more accessible?

If the Dutch government has its way, everyone will have free access to all Dutch scientific publications in 10 years’...
29 April 2015

DOAB reaches 100 publishers

Directory of Open Access Books announced the 100th publisher on their platform: African Minds. Together, these publishers have made over...
16 April 2015

Wiley takes a step towards open access

The Wiley publishing firm and the Dutch universities have reached an agreement on investing in open access. As part of...
07 April 2015

Dekker and Clark write a non-paper on open access

Sander Dekker and his UK Tory counterpart Greg Clark from ‘Universities, Science and Cities’ have appealed to all EU member...
19 March 2015

TU Eindhoven opts for green route

The Executive Board of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) has opted for the green route towards open access. As of...
green road
17 February 2015

First Open Access dataset deposited with DANS

In line with the new DANS policy, the first fully open access dataset has been made available in EASY by...
15 February 2015

Many sceptical about Dekker’s goals

A discussion meeting was held at Library & Archive, University of Twente (UT) on 18 February 2015. Following an introduction...
12 February 2015

TU Delft Library and Copernicus Publications enter into contract

To make open access publishing easier for researchers, the TU Delft Library has transferred a budget to Copernicus for open...

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