NWO wants to give a further boost to the open access availability of academic books that result from its funding. That is why NWO will make 500,000 euros available per 1 June 2020.
The current crisis around the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic shows the importance of unfettered access to scientific and scholarly information, for researchers, professors, students, journalists
Thanks to the many researchers and repository managers in the Netherlands, 700,000 scientific publications are now open accessible via the scholarly portal NARCIS!