Publication du Plan national néerlandais pour l’Open Science - France-Diplomatie - Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international

During their presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2016, the Netherlands made open access one of the priorities of its agenda, within the open science framework promoted by the European Commissioner for Research , Science and Innovation Carlos Moedas. This resulted in the publication in early 2016 of the Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science and the adoption of four principles related to open science in the conclusions of the Competitiveness Council of 27 May 2016  :

1.  Generalization of open access
2.  Development of favorable conditions for the re-use of research data
3.  Revision of evaluation and promotion systems for researchers
4.  Establishment of an open science policy platform to promote the exchange of best practices

The Dutch National Plan on Open Science is a continuation of the Council's conclusions. The plan was prepared jointly by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and a dozen Dutch research organizations (universities, libraries, research funding agencies, etc.) .

The National Plan has three objectives, linked to the conclusions of the Competitiveness Council of May 2016:

•  Generalization of open access to all publications by 2020
•  Development of open data: Making research data reusable
•  Consideration of open science in the mechanisms for evaluation and promotion of researchers

In order to achieve the generalization of open access in 2020, the Dutch university libraries, assembled within the UKB network, collectively negotiated with the publishers the costs related to open access. In 2018, Dutch university libraries will have an agreement with seven major publishers, allowing 57% of Dutch publications to be open access. Negotiations should cover 100% of publications in 2020.