The open access platform Openjournals.nl was launched on Friday 29th with seven academic journals in the field of social sciences and humanities. This new, low-threshold, platform offers journals published in the Netherlands the opportunity to...
The purpose of Quality Open Access Market (QOAM) is to share information about the quality of open access journals. An important criterion for this purpose is the process of peer review . Qoam receives the information by way of so-called...
Today, an international group of research councils called ‘cOAlition S’ and including the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, announced a plan for accelerating the transition to open access. The essence of the plan is that from 1...
From the VSNU press release : Earlier this year the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) reached an agreement on the main issues with Springer Nature and Taylor & Francis. In the past months details have been...
Today the campaign 'Open up to open access' starts. The goal is to inform researchers about open access and its possibilities for their research. It has become extremely simple to make publications freely accessible. Without any...
The KNAW has started building and setting up an Open Access magazine platform: OpenJournals.nl. The platform offers Dutch magazines an infrastructure to easily switch to digital open access publishing. NWO finances the realization of the...
... available in the journal in which they are published (Golden route). The Web of Science data shows that a small percentage of open access ... (around 5%) are only freely accessible via the Green route. This usually means that an author's version has been made available in ...
Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (or: Uopen Journals) presents 14 refreshed open access journals. Academic journals that publish their articles in Open Access are creating a free-to-use knowledge source for every person...
The current rise in COVID-19 infections in the Netherlands has led to the decision that the rescheduled National Open Science Festival will take place in an online setting on February 11th, 2021. The Festival will include interactive hybrid...
At the end of 2014, open access publishing in the Netherlands entered a new phase with the achievement of an open access component in the existing agreement (Big Deal) between the Dutch universities and Springer. The Springer agreement was also...
Dutch National website providing information for academics about the advantages of open access to publicly financed research