Advancing Open Access in the Netherlands after 2020: From Quantity to Quality | Jeroen Bosman, Hans de Jonge, Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Sondervan | Working Paper, Zenodo, January 21, 2021 | Open Research Community

Abstract:  The purpose of this article is to explore options to further open access in the Netherlandsfrom 2021. Its premise is that there is a need to look at qualitative aspects of open access,alongside quantitative ones. The paper first takes stock of progress that has been made.Next, we suggest to broaden the agenda by involving more types of actors and involve otherscholarly formats (like books, chapters, proceedings, preprints and textbooks). At the sametime we suggest to deepen the open access agenda by including several open accesscharacteristics: immediacy, open licenses, open metadata, open peer review and diamondopen access. To facilitate discussion,a framework is proposed that allows specifying theseactions by the a) aspects of open access they address (what is made open access,how/when/where it is made open access, and copyright and rights retention), b) the actorsthat play a role (government, research institutions, funders), and c) the various levels atwhich these actions can be taken: state as goal, set as policy, legalize and promote,recognize and reward, finance, support with infrastructure. A template is provided to easethe use of the framework.