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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.

NWO joins international coalition to accelerate the transition to open access

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

Two publisher deals made public

From the VSNU press release:

Open access agreement with Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) and the Dutch universities have agreed on a new big deal, which also includes open access publishing. This is the first time this publisher has taken this step

Open access figures in the Netherlands

Two employees of Utrecht University Library, Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer, have measured how many articles and reviews of researchers from Dutch universities have been published open access.

10.000 open access articles for Dutch universities

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 universiti