cOAlition S – a group of international research funders that launched the Plan S initiative 5 years ago – published a new proposal to transform the scientific publishing landscape. In this draft proposal, cOAlition S proposes a vision and a set of principles that a future…
On Thursday 9 November, the maximum number of articles that can be published open access at Springer in 2023 was reached. Until that date, a total of 2,067 scientific articles have been published by Dutch universities this year. What does that mean?If your manuscript is accepted for publication…
The website www.openscience.nl has an updated look and has been transformed to reflect the recent launch of the new Open Science NL program. The redesigned website is now live and welcomes all to join the mission of expediting the transition to Open Science.Open Science NL serves as the…
In the first package of the second round of the Open Science Fund, 30 projects will receive a financial boost of up to EUR 50,000. This second round is particularly intended for project proposals aimed at further developing open science in fields or disciplines where it is not yet the norm or…
As of July 3 the Dutch research portal NARCIS will be replaced by The Netherlands Research Portal on OpenAIRE CONNECT that covers the publications, datasets and projects of research institutes in The Netherlands. The portal aims to connect the Dutch research to a broad audience of (inter)national…
The Regieorgaan Open Science, or Open Science NL for short, has been officially launched. The governing body was set up to accelerate the transition to Open Science. Many important institutions in the field of science have committed to Open Science NL: NWO, UNL, NFU, VH, SURF, KNAW, NWO-I, ZonMw,…
The portal NARCIS will migrate to the OpenAIRE platform Mid 2023. UKB, SURF and OpenAIRE, three prominent organisations in the field of open knowledge, e-infrastructure, and IT innovation, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate building a search portal for all Dutch research output,…
Practical Guide on Open Science for Early-Career Researchers is published by the Dutch consortium of University Libraries and the National Library of the Netherlands (UKB), together with the Universities of The Netherlands (UNL), the Dutch National Centre of Expertise and Repository for Research…
Starting from 2021, cOAlitionS funders such as NWO and European Commission (Horizon Europe) require immediate Open Access with a CC-BY license to all peer-reviewed scholarly publications. To meet those requirements, researchers have 3 options: to use one of the national Read & Publish…
Get ready for the third edition of the Netherlands National Open Science Festival! After last year’s successful event with over 300 visitors, this year the festival will be held at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Like the previous editions, the festival revolves around sharing knowledge…
Dutch universities have signed a so-called S2O deal with two publishers: Annual Reviews and Amsterdam University Press (AUP). S2O means Subscribe to Open. The journals of these two publishers become open access on the basis of subscription fees, which continue to be paid by the University Libraries…
DANS will decommission the NARCIS Portal. This means that from January, all content related to projects, persons and organisations on the NARCIS website will be frozen. And on March 1, this website will be taken offline.—————–The mission of DANS is to promote the reuse of research data…
DANS will decommission the NARCIS Portal. This means that from January, all content related to projects, persons and organisations on the NARCIS website will be frozen. And on July 3, this website will be taken offline.—————–The mission of DANS is to promote the reuse of research data…
Corresponding authors affiliated with a Dutch university participating in the Read & Publish agreement with publisher Emerald will no longer be able to publish open access articles in this publisher's journals at no additional cost until 1 January 2023. The yearly available amount of…
More and more publications are becoming available in open access. This is a deliberate policy of NWO and ZonMw. By 2021, at least 9 out of 10 publications based on research funded by them will be accessible worldwide without barriers. This is according to a research report by CWTS (Center for…