The Dutch universities and Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing (RSC) have been unable to reach a new agreement on access to scientific journals. The VSNU's aim in the negotiations was to secure a transition to open access without Dutch academics having to pay double to access articles. The costs of transitioning to open access would be substantially higher with this publisher than what is being currently paid for access, and therefore was unacceptable to the Dutch universities.
RSC is a non-profit publisher in a specialist field with a high-quality journal package. The VSNU would reopen negotiations with RSC if and when the publisher is willing to make comprehensive and fair agreements on open access. RSC may as a result discontinue read access to the journals.
Agreements about subscription fees for academic journals are made with academic publishers on behalf of all of the Dutch universities. The VSNU is currently negotiating with these publishers on the universities' behalf. The universities are only willing to renew the subscription agreements on the condition that publishers bring open access closer to becoming a reality.
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