The difficult road to open access - resource.wageningenur.nl

[From Google's English] "In 2024, all articles of Dutch scientists need to be read for free. That wrote Sander Dekker, Secretary of Education, in 2013 to the House. Currently, most scientific journals behind the tollgates of digital publishing. Universities annually pay subscription fees to be allowed to inspect it. The minister sees many advantages in embracing openness. This keeps citizens, students and cash-strapped researchers informed of the latest science. several major publishers to make Dekkers vision reality. Universities are taking ambitious: they want all articles are open access, without cost more than the subscriptions now. Because costs are of course still in a system of open publications. Someone must still pay for making magazines. Publishing indeed ensure quality, formatting and archiving. All are not free. Only now pays the author and not the reader. In the Netherlands the subscription fees common set of big deals for magazine bundles, with a total value of 34 million euros. VSNU want to convert these deals in - equally expensive - contracts also entitle to publish open access. The first small success is already there. With Springer, one of the three largest scientific publishers in the world, there is an agreement in principal. At a minimal cost 'may publish all corresponding authors at Dutch universities open in' almost all 'fifteen hundred sheets of Springer. The details are still being negotiated. That precisely Springer first toehapte, is not surprising. The publisher took an OA publisher over and put himself firmly in the 'open' ..."