Dr. Louis De Smet Talks to InTech about Nanowires, Science and Open Access

"The reason for going Open Access is a mixture of the widely known and discussed ethical reasons that support Open Access, including the importance of access to knowledge and information to higher education and research and the fact that a large portion of our research is publicly funded. Obviously, there is also an extremely strong practical reason: open access work is more widely read and ensures a greater visibility. Like many universities, also Delft University of Technology supports the global distribution of knowledge through Open Access publishing. The Open Access fee of our chapter has been paid by the Incentive Fund Open Access of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). NWO is an independent administrative body under the auspices of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and is the largest financer of scientific innovation in the Netherlands...."