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15 January 2015

NRC article about differing views on open access

Negotiations with Elsevier and Springer about open access publishing have produced different responses, prompting the NRC Handelsblad to publish a...

23 December 2014

Detailed information about the open access agreement between the Dutch universities and Springer is available now. Under the Agreement, all...

17 December 2014

Open access is an important, if not crucial part of the current negotiations between VSNU and major publishers about journal...

17 December 2014

In December 2014 the Dutch universities have reached an agreement with the publisher Springer on open access publishing for Dutch...

14 December 2014

Negotiations between VSNU and Springer have yielded an agreement in principle for 2015 and 2016. Instead of a paid subscription...