Open Access: threat or opportunity to scientific libraries? (Open Access: bedreiging of opportuniteit voor wetenschappelijke bibliotheken?) | VVBAD

Dutch language-blog, excerpt translated via deepl.com

The pursuit of Open Access (OA), free access to scientific publications, has recently been given new impetus by a number of initiatives by governments and research funders. Nevertheless, the question can be asked whether it is not about old wine in new bags. OA has been around for two decades - why should anything really change this time?

The fact is that scientific libraries will have to adapt thoroughly if a more general change to OA is realised. Quite a number of libraries have already taken the plunge and launched activities in response to commercial scientific publishers, hoping to implement OA in an affordable and sustainable way and to play an active role in the transition to more OA.