Academics speak
‘Research publications that are funded by public money should be available online free of charge and accessible to everyone. Open access publishing gives the whole world access to scholarly publications.’
'Open Access is not a dogma for me, but a way to spread scientific information - publications, data and software - more effectively than by using the payment model. Sometimes there are good reasons to protect certain information. For research data applies the principle: Open if possible, protected if necessary.'
"Open access allows scientific publications of Dutch universities to be globally accessible. Freely sharing research results advances science and contributes to the dissemination and visibility of Dutch research."
“Open access is a matter of fairness. Not every scientist has access to expensive journals due to the financial situation. For us authors, open access helps to spread our research faster and more broadly”
‘Open access is an ideal solution for researchers from poorer countries and for professionals who do not have access through their employer to a library collection.’
"You do research to push the boundaries of the unknown and to find answers to scientific societal challenges. That is of course much more effective if you can share the results with the whole world without barriers. That is the goal of open science. If the COVID -19 pandemic has made something clear in 2020, it is the importance of open science. Only by uniting forces with which researchers worldwide collaborated in 2020 and shared their data and publications as early as possible, it was possible to have a vaccine in such short notice. A fantastic illustration of the importance and relevance of open science."
‘Scientific and scholarly research that is funded with public money is visible worldwide through open access.’
‘Publishing in open access leads to more citations and a higher impact factor.’
"Since 1994 I have made my publications immediately open access available by submitting them to arXiv at the time of publication, and I am happy that an acceleration is now finally taking place."
"Publicly funded research must be accessible to everyone. At the same time, in many fields of science, valuable publishing channels exist that are not based on a business revenue model. We must therefore jointly ensure that the principle of Open Access can be realized across the entire breadth of science, taking into account relevant differences."
‘We are seeking to give the study of Dutch literature an international visibility. And as a community of scholars, we want to engage with debates and with other communities internationally. We therefore benefit from the broadest possible dissemination of publications, with as few as possible barriers between our research results and the people who use them.’
"Publishing in open access verifiably provides a much wider reach. Especially in parts of the world where subscriptions to magazines and the purchase of books are difficult to pay."
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