big deal

Over thirty Dutch research institutions have entered into a new open access agreement with the publisher PLOS (Public Library of Science). The deal covers seven scientific journals, including PLOS ONE, and allows researchers affiliated with the participating organizations to publish open access in these journals over the next two years as part of a national consortium agreement.

The petition "Call to Commitment: A Future-Proof Approach to Open Access Publishing in The Netherlands" has now over 400 signatories. More are needed to inspire OA negotiations toward a sustainable publishing model.

Dutch university libraries have several agreements in place with different traditional academic publishers. These agreements allow corresponding authors affiliated with

In March 2024, during the Open Science Retreat in School (NL), a group of participants came together to discuss a

Since 2015, corresponding authors affiliated with Dutch Universities, University Medical Centres and the KNAW institutes can publish Open Access in many Springer journals without

The publisher Wiley announced a list of journals that will become Gold Open Access starting in 2025. These are the

On April 18, 2024 Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), NFU and NWO organised a one-day conference entitled “What do we

It has just been announced that the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Netherlands Federation of University Medical

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

The Dutch university libraries (UKB) give the mutual cooperation an extra impulse with the establishment of a program for joint