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01 March 2020

Event "Food for psychologists" on 24 March 2020 in The Hague

This event is cancelled, and will be rescheduled, given the rapidly evolving concerns and regulations about the coronavirus COVID-19. A...

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18 February 2020

Closed access publications via Unpaywall in NARCIS open access available

The national portal NARCIS contains open access scholarly publications from universities, higher professional education institutions, KNAW, NWO and other scientific...

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13 February 2020

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...

03 February 2020

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...

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31 January 2020

ORCID iDs in the national scholarly portal NARCIS

Two years ago, DANS started adding ORCID iDs to NARCIS. Now, over 13,000 researchers in NARCIS are currently provided with...

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NARCIS

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28 January 2020

National Open Science Festival

On August 27th 2020, the National Open Science Festival will be held at Wageningen University & Research. The festival provides...

07 January 2020

Sharing publications via the repository is given an extra boost

At the end of 2019, Dutch universities (united in the VSNU) decided to give their 100% open access goal an...

27 December 2019

Update of data management protocol of NWO

Starting from 1st January 2020, NWO will update its data management protocol. The basic principles will remain. Researchers need to...

24 December 2019

Dutch research institutions and Elsevier reach agreement

Elsevier will offer unlimited open access. This is part of the preliminary agreement between the Association of Universities in the...

17 December 2019

Now in NARCIS: over 760.000 scientific publications open access available

Over 760,000 scientific publications are now open accessible in NARCIS. Among these open access publications there are 310,000 journal articles,...

05 November 2019

Over two million scholarly publications findable via NARCIS

Employees of Wageningen University & Research-Library, together with a broad network of importers in the research groups, have ensured that...

26 October 2019

The Harvard Open Access licensing model in Dutch law

Many US universities can publish scientific articles directly open access. For this they use the Harvard open access licensing model...

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Open Science

10 September 2019

International Open Access Week 2019 - activities in the Netherlands

The International Open Access Week 2019 will be held this year from October 21-27 with the theme ' Open for...

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Open Science

18 August 2019

National eScience Symposium 2019

The Dutch National eScience Symposium is a one-day event where academic researchers, industry representatives and policy makers from various disciplines...

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Open Science

31 July 2019

A milestone: 700,000 open access scholarly publications in NARCIS

Thanks to the many researchers and repository managers in the Netherlands, 700,000 scientific publications are now open accessible via the...

24 July 2019

RDA EU Travel grants for researchers to attend the 14th RDA Plenary

The international member organization Research Data Alliance (RDA) Europe is offering financial support to nine Early Career Researchers and seven...

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Open Science

02 July 2019

Open Access deal between Elsevier and Dutch universities extended until december 2019

At the end of 2018, the VSNU and Elsevier agreed to continue discussions about a new contract. From July 1,...

14 June 2019

UKB and Karger renew open access agreement

The Dutch consortium ‘samenwerkingsverband van Nederlandse universiteitsbibliotheken en de Koninklijke Bibliotheek’ (UKB) and Karger have renewed their existing agreement on...

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04 June 2019