Universiteit schrapt 'te dure' topbladen | Binnenland | de Volkskrant

"Employees of Tilburg University from February but must see how they get on articles from the journals Science and Nature. The central library has terminated the contract with both blades and thus saves his own words 21 527 euros per year.  'It's a nasty decision to take, but there were few other options,' says director Marc van den Berg of the Tilburg library. He points out that the budgets for subscriptions have shrunk, while the blades are unchanged expensive. A complication, he says, is that many scientific journals are offered in large packages of dozens of titles. Over there are so-called Big Deals concluded with publishers. It can not be tampered now because the Dutch universities together publishers try to force so-called open access: free papers for which the authors pay.Van den Berg: 'Beyond the Big Deals for Science and Nature are only titles that reciting really tap . Which are very expensive, and there is the fact that they have relatively few users in Tilburg, because we have no beta-faculty or university hospital. ' Who in Tilburg still needs an article from Science or Nature, which can separately purchase for $ 20 or 30 euros each, at the expense of the faculty ..."