ScienceGuide - "A modest first step"

"14 december 2015 - Last week Elsevier and the Dutch universities reached an agreement on Open Access and subscriptions. The LERU welcomes the deal and urges the European Commission and Dutch EU presidency to 'bring EU-wide sensible solutions to the fore.' In the agreement with Elsevier the aim of Dutch universities to make 30% of their researchers’ publications Open Access by 2018 should be possible. The agreement is said to be in line with Sander Dekker, State Secretary at the Ministry for Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands, to transition Dutch scientific output towards an Open Access publishing model ..."