Hoe groot is de ambitie voor Open Access? - Sargasso

[From Google's English] "In November 2013 wrote Sander Dekker, the Secretary of Education, Culture and Science, to the House: "We have the ambition to be published in 2016 sixty percent and in 2024, one hundred percent of the Dutch publicly funded scientific articles open access." Go we get that? Thomson Reuters' Web of Science, one of the major indexes for scientific publications, is now indicates whether a publication in an Open Access journal is published. In Open Access journals, scientists work without restrictions to third parties. What part of the Dutch scientific output now appears in Open Access journals? In 2001-2003, an average of one in a hundred publications (articles, conference reports, letters , notes and reviews ) published in an Open Access journal. Ten years later, in 2011-2013 was one in ten. That is still much less than the targeted 60 percent. But the growth is clearly exponential. What happens if we continue this growth into the future?  ..."