To help researchers acknowledge and assert their rights, cOAlition S is launching an online campaign "Publish with Power: Protect your rights". The campaign aims to encourage researchers to retain their intellectual property rights, explains the steps they need to take and…
On 1 September 2022, the second edition of the Netherlands National Open Science Festival will take place at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Like its first edition, the festival is a community-sourced gathering for researchers active in the Netherlands to:MEET researchers who already work openly…
The University of Groningen (RUG) has introduced an open access book fund. UG- or UMCG-affiliated authors can apply for funding the publication of their monograph or edited volume.This new funding instrument aims to stimulate the publication of open access academic books.The fund can be used to pay…
A milestone in the Netherlands! NARCIS provides access to over 1 million scientific open access publications! This enormous number has been reached thanks to the researchers in the Dutch scientific institutions, the staff of the repository teams and other open science experts working at the…
Early 2022, the UKB consortium renewed a number of 'read and publish' contracts with major publishers. Through these deals, the Dutch university community and the academic hospitals have access to many thousands of scientific journals, as well as the right to publish open access in the…
The European Commission published a scoping report summarizing the outcomes of extensive consultations with European and international stakeholders, that took place from March to November 2021. The consultation with stakeholders aimed at discussing how to facilitate and speed up a…
The Dutch National Program Open Science (NPOS) has set up an online open consultation. The aim of this consultation is to give all Dutch stakeholders the opportunity to provide input on the NPOS2030 Ambition Document, which forms the first chapters of the new NPOS2030 Program Description. It…
The Dutch consortium of university libraries and the National library of the Netherlands (UKB) together with the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO), has published a practical guide on preprints.PreprintsPreprints are [academic] manuscripts…
Today the VSNU announced that the Dutch universities have published 73% of their academic articles Open Access in 2020. This is apparent from the Open Access Monitor, which was published yesterday and is published here on openaccess.nl. This is an increase of 11 percentage points compared to…
The official opening of Radboud University Press will take place on 29 October at 2:00 PM, during the International Open Access Week. Radboud University Press is a new department within Radboud University, a Diamond Open Access publisher of academic peer-reviewed books and journals of high quality…
The Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ECR) has made an update (version 4.0) of 'Open Research Data and Data Managements Plans – Information for ERC grantees'.The significantly revised report addresses the research data requirements of Horizon 2020 and those of the new…
The European Commission has launched Open Research Europe. Scientific publications that are the result of Horizon 2020 and, in the short term, also Horizon Europe funding can be placed on this open access platform.The platform is open for publications from all scientific disciplines. The…
Horizon Europe, the new funding programme for research and innovation of the Europese Union, has been started in May 2021. With a budget of 95 miljard euro it is the successor of Horizon 2020. The project will run from 2021 to 2027.The three pillars are Excellent science; Global challenges &…
In cooperation with the repository managers of scholarly institutions and the many researchers in the Netherlands, 900,000 scholarly publications are now accessible via NARCIS! In ten months' time, this database has grown by 100,000 publications.More than 2.2 million scientific publications can…
The open access platform Openjournals.nl was launched on Friday 29th with seven academic journals in the field of social sciences and humanities. This new, low-threshold, platform offers journals published in the Netherlands the opportunity to publish in open access.Two years ago, the OPuS…