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10 July 2017

New VSNU E-zine on recent OA developments

In the new E-zine issue the benefits of open access publishing for scientists are highlighted. You will also find an...
open access policy
VSNU
26 June 2017

NWO’s Incentive Fund for Open Access to end on 1 January 2018

On 1 January 2018, NWO will terminate its Incentive Fund for Open Access Publications and Conferences. The main reason for...
NWO
22 May 2017

100% open access agreement with Cambridge University Press

The universities in the Netherlands and Cambridge University Press (CUP) have concluded a three-year agreement guaranteeing 100% open access to...
big deal
golden road
VSNU
16 May 2017

Extension FP7 post-grant Open Access publishing funds pilot

The FP7 post-grant Open Access publishing funds pilot is extended by 10 months, ending on February 28th, 2018. This project...
article processing charge (APC)
FP7
15 May 2017

'Open up to open access!' campaign

Today the campaign 'Open up to open access' starts. The goal is to inform researchers about open access and its...
article processing charge (APC)
big deal
golden road
open access policy
VSNU
08 May 2017

American Physical Society participates in SCOAP

As from 2018 the American Physical Society (APS) will join the SCOAP community. The goal of SCOAP is to migrate...
02 May 2017

No agreement between VSNU and Oxford University Press

The Dutch universities and Oxford University Press (OUP) have been unable to reach a new agreement for access to academic...
big deal
01 May 2017

New report of CWTS and Elsevier about data sharing by researchers

A change in scientific culture must ensure an increase in data sharing, according to the report " Open data -...
open data
21 April 2017

Open Science: the National Plan and you

The National Platform Open Science organizes a national event for researchers on 29 May 2017. This day researchers can give...
Open Science
31 March 2017

Brill involves open access in agreement with Dutch universities

Brill has reached an agreement with the VSNU (Association of Dutch Universities) with an important open access component Next to...
big deal
golden road
VSNU
29 March 2017

Libraries at polytechnicals go green

The Alliance Polytechnical Libraries (SHB) focuses on the ' green route ' for open access publishing. This way they hope...
Creative Commons (CC)
green road
open access policy
27 March 2017

Open access publications 2016

2016 was the second year in which national agreements with publishers where made in the Netherlands, including an open access...
big deal
golden road
VSNU
16 March 2017

500,000 open access scholarly publications in NARCIS

A milestone for NARCIS, the scholarly portal of the Netherlands. Thanks to many researchers and repository managers there are 500,000...
green road
NARCIS
03 March 2017

OA deal Walter de Gruyter expanded

Corresponding authors of Dutch universities receive from February onwards also 20% discount when they publish in the 'De Gruyter Open...
17 February 2017

HBO award open access initiative

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open access policy
10 February 2017

National Plan Open Science presented

On Thursday, February 9, the report National Plan Open Science (NPOS) and the website openscience.nl were both presented in The...
Open Science
VSNU
19 January 2017

New OA deal with Sage

The Association of Dutch Universities and SAGE have agreed on a three year deal. For 2017-2019 publication in open access...
article processing charge (APC)
big deal
golden road
VSNU
11 January 2017

Start European Open Science Cloud project

In January 2017 the Horizon 2020 European Open Science Cloud project starts with a pilot . With EOSC it is...
open data
Open Science
04 January 2017

Subscription rates Dutch universities public

After a successful appeal to the Government Information Act by critical students, the Association of universities in the Netherlands (...
big deal
VSNU
23 December 2016

University of Groningen introduce green open access policy as of 1 Januariy 2017

As of 1 January 2017, University of Groningen and the University Medical Centre researchers are asked to deposit full-text versions...
green road
open access policy

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