Open access to 800,000 scientific publications through NARCIS | DANS

In collaboration with universities and other research institutions, NARCIS now provides open access to more than 800,000 scientific publications.

TU Delft Library’s repository team has recently been responsible for passing the 800,000 mark. Over 52,000 TU Delft publications can be found through NARCIS, almost all of them open access publications. Member of the team Mieke Heukels, on behalf of the repository team: "Working from home should not be an obstacle to cross borders together."

The more than 800,000 open access publications include 332,000 journal articles and more than 87,000 dissertations. They come from all Dutch universities, HBO-Kennisbank (publications deposited by 26 universities of applied sciences), KNAW, NWO, and other scientific institutions including RCE (archaeological reports), TNO, RIVM, NIVEL, and SWOV. In all, 38 repositories are involved. To date, more than 14,000 open access publications have already been published in 2020, most of them articles.