open access policy

Dutch research institutions and Elsevier initiate national Open Science partnership

VSNU, NFU, NWO and Elsevier have agreed publishing, reading and open science services to support Dutch research and innovation ambitions

Page published with tips on open access to COVID-19 and related research

The current crisis around the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic shows the importance of unfettered access to scientific and scholarly information, for researchers, professors, students, journalists

Open Access to COVID-19 and related research

More than 10,000 articles in open access in 2019

On February 13, the 10,000th open access article was administered published in the year 2019 within the national agreements with publishers.

Prof.dr.ir. Wim van Saarloos

"Since 1994 I have made my publications immediately open access available by submitting them to arXiv at the time of publication, and I am happy that an acceleration is now finally taking place."

Dutch University libraries intensify cooperation with the launch of UKBsis

The Dutch university libraries (UKB) give the mutual cooperation an extra impulse with the establishment of a program for joint "Scholarly Information Services": UKBsis.