OPEN ACCESS DISCUSSION MEETING

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-02-08

Summary:

"Since more than a year Open Access has been in the news regularly. After Secretary of State Sander Dekker presented the goal of 100% Open Access in 2024, the Association of universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) started negotiations with Elsevier, Springer and Wiley. By the end of 2014 it came to an agreement with Springer about open access publishing without article processing costs whereas the talks with the other publishers are still going on. Scientists were informed by different media about these developments and were called on to publish their articles Open Access as much as possible. However, the ambition of 100% Open Access deserves a debate among scientists about promises and pitfalls. Therefore Library & Archive and Strategy and Policy organize an Open Access discussion meeting on Wednesday February 18, 12:00-14:00 (lunch included). You are invited to join this meeting where Prof. Dr. Jos Engelen, chair of the Governing Board of NWO, will share his opinion about Open Access. Prof. Dr. Detlef Lohse, professor of Physics of Fluids, will act as co-referent and discussion leader ..."

Link:

http://www.utwente.nl/ctit/archive/!/2015/2/352671/open-access-discussion-meeting

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.u.twente oa.netherlands oa.mandates oa.gold oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.elsevier oa.wiley oa.springer oa.debates oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.events oa.policies oa.journals

Date tagged:

02/08/2015, 09:23

Date published:

02/08/2015, 04:23