Geen akkoord VSNU en Oxford University Press - [apr-jun] - Universiteitsbibliotheek, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

As long as there is no agreement, scientists will have to take note that they need to access another way to be published their desired items from May 1, 2017 at OUP.  For VSNU was the starting point in negotiating the transition to open access - freely accessible articles - which will not be paid twice by Dutch scientists. OUP has made a proposal to the Dutch universities, which was no demand for affordable open access. Since the Dutch universities can not agree.  The offer of OUP, as compared with the agreements made by the VSNU with other publishers, a step back rather than a step towards 100% open access in 2020. The VSNU is happy to talk with OUP, as prepared OUP is to further and fair agreements in the field of open access. Jaap Winter, chief negotiator on behalf of the VSNU and Chairman of the Executive Board of the Free University of Amsterdam: 'Publishers have the choice to go along with this development, but open access is anyway the new standard. With or without the publishers.'

OUP is a publisher specialized in medical journals. Therefore, it is especially for UMC's important that there is a good agreement and future-proof. For other disciplines OUP is a major publisher. Publishing in the journals can coming through. One possibility to still have the one you want is to request it directly from the author. Those who support and / or opinion is about access to articles in OUP journals, for example, via interlibrary loan (ILL) can should contact the library via vraag.ub@vu.nl . "