E-zine over ontwikkelingen open access - inct

From Google Translate: ", the Association of Universities (VSNU) published a second e-zine on the successful Dutch approach to achieve open access. Universities are working together to make scientific articles freely accessible to everyone.A re major steps put towards 100% open access that can count on international attention. 

Open access is a rapid growth with which it is noted worldwide in the Netherlands. The rapid growth is the result of a unique approach, inspired and supported by (inter) national organizations around us. The principle, aspirations and approach apply internationally as an example in the scientific world, in national governments and the European Union. The e-zine that VSNU published in the spring of 2016, has led to many positive responses and has been through all the dynamics of an update.  The importance of open access was a few years back only marginally discussed in political debates. Now the topic high on the agenda in almost all party political programs in the Netherlands. The Dutch Presidency of the EU in 2016 has clearly contributed to the further growth of open access in Europe. In Europe, the goal to pass in 2020, open access to scientific publications.  In addition to the aforementioned national and international developments, the Dutch universities have put together again major steps to free access to scientific articles for anyone. With large publishers are contracts allowing even more items of our researchers without charge online open access are available. 

Open access is a real prelude to the wider 'open science'. This applies not only to the accessibility of publications but also about that of the underlying data. The purpose of the two movements is to strengthen the connection between science and society. "