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25 June 2024

Impact on ownership when choosing a CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License

When publishing open access, authors retain copyright over their work and apply an open license that states the conditions for...
Creative Commons (CC)
21 June 2024

National Open Science Festival 2024 – Registrations Now Open!

The fourth edition of the National Open Science Festival will be held on October 22, 2024, at the School of...
Open Science
11 June 2024

Higher VAT also hinders access to science

The proposed increase in the VAT rate from 9% to 21% on books will have a major impact on the...
06 June 2024

What do we want (or not want) from publishers? Looking beyond the current Dutch contract with Elsevier

On April 18, 2024 Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), NFU and NWO organised a one-day conference entitled “What do we...
article processing charge (APC)
big deal
golden road
VSNU
04 April 2024

UKB guide Predatory and Questionable Publishing Practices

The benefits of scholarly communication in authoritative, high-quality journals, books, and other venues are well known. Yet there is growing...
predatory journals
13 March 2024

Project Diamond Open Access in the Netherlands

Diamond Open Access (DOA) is a scholarly communication model that ensures immediate access to scholarly works without embargoes while preserving...
20 February 2024

Pilot Open Access monitoring launched

After a thorough preparation the UKB project group for national open access monitoring has now started the actual pilot in...
Creative Commons (CC)
monitoring
VSNU
12 February 2024

DIAMAS landscape study published

On February 1 st the European project DIAMAS on institutional/diamond scholarly publishing published their full landscape study . It contains...
10 November 2023

cOAlition S calls for feedback on a proposal "Towards Responsible Publishing"

cOAlition S – a group of international research funders that launched the Plan S initiative 5 years ago – published...
10 November 2023

Maximum number of Springer open access articles 2023 reached

On Thursday 9 November, the maximum number of articles that can be published open access at Springer in 2023 was...
15 September 2023

Open Science NL with a new website

The website www.openscience.nl has an updated look and has been transformed to reflect the recent launch of the new Open...
NWO
Open Science
10 August 2023

30 new projects launched in Open Science Fund; new round of applications is open

In the first package of the second round of the Open Science Fund, 30 projects will receive a financial boost...
NWO
Open Science
07 July 2023

Launching the new research portal for The Netherlands with OpenAIRE

As of July 3 the Dutch research portal NARCIS will be replaced by The Netherlands Research Portal on OpenAIRE CONNECT...
NARCIS
repository
27 June 2023

Open Science NL launched to drive open science transition in the Netherlands

The Regieorgaan Open Science , or Open Science NL for short, has been officially launched. The governing body was set...
Open Science
22 May 2023

Dutch research portal NARCIS moves to OpenAIRE

The portal NARCIS will migrate to the OpenAIRE platform Mid 2023. UKB, SURF and OpenAIRE, three prominent organisations in the...
NARCIS
17 May 2023

Practical Guide on Open Science is available!

Practical Guide on Open Science for Early-Career Researchers is published by the Dutch consortium of University Libraries and the National...
12 April 2023

Introducing Rights Retention Strategy FAQ

Starting from 2021, cOAlitionS funders such as NWO and European Commission (Horizon Europe) require immediate Open Access with a CC...
green road
Horizon Europe
NWO
13 March 2023

SAVE THE DATE - 31 August 2023 - National Open Science Festival

Get ready for the third edition of the Netherlands National Open Science Festival ! After last year’s successful event with...
Open Science
20 January 2023

S2O deals with Annual Reviews and Amsterdam University Press

Dutch universities have signed a so-called S2O deal with two publishers: Annual Reviews and Amsterdam University Press (AUP). S2O means...
13 January 2023

NARCIS.nl will go offline from July 3rd, 2023

DANS will decommission the NARCIS Portal. This means that from January, all content related to projects, persons and organisations on...
NARCIS
repository

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