Open Access publishing is an important part of the Open Science movement,<\/a> which is already well underway. UKB \u2013 sometimes in collaboration with UNL <\/a>\u2013 has included an Open Access component in contracts with the major publishers since 2015. This allows our authors to publish scientific articles in Open Access at no additional cost. This allows our authors to publish scientific articles in Open Access at no additional cost. In addition, all Dutch universities have a repository, where researchers are able to make author versions of their publications available in Open Access. However, there is still much to be done.<\/p>\n The Open Access working group sees itself as a bridge between local, national and international developments \u2013 for example at universities, research funders and publishers \u2013 and researchers who have to deal with these new developments. We have a broad network, provide solicited and unsolicited advice on new developments, support projects, for example, for the development or implementation of new tools or policies, and are pivotal in communication towards researchers and the public. Its goal is to facilitate the transition to Open Access for all parties.<\/p>\n The Open Access working group is involved in a wide range of activities. The following are a selection of its activities this year, in no particular order:<\/p>\n The efforts for Open Access in the Netherlands are paying dividends year after year: the percentage of Open Access has been growing steadil<\/a>y for years. In 2024, 95% of Dutch articles in scientific journals were available in Open Access. This year the monitor, carried out by UKB, has been based on Open Science principles<\/a> for the first time and will become the new standard for monitoring open access nationally from now on..<\/p>\n Our working group consists of one Open Access expert from each university. All members bring different types of expertise from their backgrounds, for example in law, research or communication. In addition, it has links with NWO<\/a>, universities of applied sciences, DANS-KNAW<\/a>, NPOS <\/a>and UNL<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ron Aardening<\/a> – Maastricht University UKB Liaison<\/strong>: H.N. van Wijngaarden<\/a>– Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam<\/p>\n National platform for open access: Openaccess.nl<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Background Open Access publishing is an important part of the Open Science movement, which is already well underway. UKB \u2013 sometimes in collaboration with UNL \u2013 has included an Open Access component in contracts with the major publishers since 2015. This allows our authors to publish scientific articles in Open Access at no additional cost….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3517,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3553","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukb.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukb.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukb.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukb.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukb.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ukb.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4899,"href":"https:\/\/ukb.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3553\/revisions\/4899"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukb.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukb.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Goal<\/h1>\n
Activities<\/h1>\n
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Results, the status of Open Access in the Netherlands<\/h2>\n
Documents<\/h1>\n
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Members<\/h1>\n
\nPascal Braak<\/a> – University of Amsterdam
\nLisa Idebolo<\/a> – TU Eindhoven
\nBeatriz Ferreira<\/a> – Tilburg University
\nDirk van Gorp<\/a> – Radboud University Nijmegen
\nChantal Hukkelhoven<\/a> – Wageningen University and Research
\nJust de Leeuwe<\/a> – TU Delft
\nNicole Loorbach<\/a> – University of Twente
\nAnne van den Maagdenberg<\/a>– Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Secretary
\n<\/strong>Heleen Palmen<\/a> – Universiteit Leiden, chair
\nMaria Constantin<\/a> – Erasmus University Rotterdam
\nGiulia Trentacosti<\/a> – University of Groningen
\nRashmi Shetty<\/a> – Universiteit Utrecht
\nAstrid van Wesenbeeck<\/a> – KB Nationale Bibliotheek Den Haag
\nArjan Schalken<\/a> – SURF
\nJeroen Sondervan<\/a> – NWO and regieorgaan OA<\/p>\nLinks<\/h1>\n
\nUniversiteiten van Nederland: Open Access<\/a>
\nOpen Science Guide<\/a>
\nGuide to Creative Commons for Scholarly Publications and Educational Resources<\/a>
\nA Practical Guide to Preprints<\/a>
\nPredatory and Questionable Publishing Practices Guide<\/a>
\nHow to flip your journal: A guide to more equitable publishing with Diamond Open Access<\/a><\/p>\n