Nederland wordt proeftuin voor gratis wetenschap - Binnenland - VK

"Netherlands is a testing ground for the free distribution of scientific articles. This autumn, the central stake in the negotiations between universities and major scientific publishers on new long-term contracts library. That is the main outcome of discussions behind closed doors yesterday in The Hague, between the ministry, scientific publishers Elsevier, Springer and Brill, and academia. The meeting stems from the Planning Minister Sander Dekker from 2016 to. Least half the scientific papers free to read Contributing authors and their institutions in such an open access system, the cost of publication, not the readers. Dekker in the consultation concluded that the Netherlands is ideal to test the system. open access in practice ..."