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Growth of open access publications in the Netherlands, 1990-2018

Scholarly communication of the Netherlands published in open access form can be found by searching the National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System [nl] (NARCIS). The web portal was developed in 2004 by the Data Archiving and Networked Services [nl] of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1]

Publishers Brill, National Library of the Netherlands, OAPEN Foundation, Stichting Fair Open Access Alliance, Utrecht University Library, and VU University Amsterdam Library belong to the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.[2]

Policy

The Dutch government has voiced the ambition that by 2019 60% of all publications from Dutch research universities should be published as open access, and by 2024 this should be 100%.[3] The Society of Dutch Universities [nl] is negotiating big deals with publishers, where open access publication for Dutch corresponding authors is free of additional charge.[4]

Journals

Many editorial boards of scholarly journals in the Netherlands have decided to publish in open access form, allowing readers to access articles for free, and also to freely reuse Open access icon the information. Typically, the intention is to foster further research, to advance scholarship and the production of knowledge, and to encourage reuse of research without the obstacle of costly access. Among the open access journals produced in the Netherlands are the following titles:[5]

  • Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
  • BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review
  • Internationale Neerlandistiek, (ISSN 2214-5729)
  • Linguistics in Amsterdam, (ISSN 1878-4569)
  • New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, (ISSN 1382-2373, ISSN 2213-4360)
  • Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis, (ISSN 2213-7653)
  • Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis [nl]

Repositories

As of March 2018, the UK-based Directory of Open Access Repositories lists some 36 repositories in the Netherlands.[6] Those maintaining the largest number of digital assets include: Wageningen Staff Publications, Utrecht University Repository, Radboud Repository, University of Groningen Research Database, Repository TU/e, TU Delft Repository, Universiteit van Amsterdam Digital Academic Repository, Erasmus University Institutional Repository, and Universiteit Twente Repository.[1]

See also

Number of open access publications in various Dutch repositories, 2018

References

  1. ^ a b "OA in the Netherlands". Open Access in Practice: EU Member States. OpenAIRE. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Members", Oaspa.org, The Hague: Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, retrieved 7 April 2018
  3. ^ "Open Access". Vereniging van Universiteiten. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  4. ^ "Big deals and prepaid". Vereniging van Universiteiten. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  5. ^ "(Search: Country of Publisher: Netherlands)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK: Infrastructure Services for Open Access. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  6. ^ "Netherlands". Directory of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Nottingham. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
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