As part of its negotiations with Wolters Kluwer to extend the contract for legal and fiscal professional literature, the VSNU has agreed open-access terms. The 27 academic journals in Wolters Kluwer's collection of otherwise mainly professional literature will be subject to new and explicit open-access embargo rules. The parties have agreed that academic articles from these 27 journals will be eligible for publishing in the public domain 6 to 12months after the date of their publication on Navigator and Wolters Kluwer's other platforms.
Generally speaking, embargo periods with regard to articles are considered a form of green open access. Given the VSNU's stated objective of securing as much gold open access to articles as possible, this makes the agreement all the more remarkable.
In contrast with other big-deal open-access negotiations, the VSNU is not the main beneficiary of its negotiations with Wolters Kluwer. The legal profession and other professionals are easily the most avid consumers of Wolters Kluwer's professional literature. In that context, it is only natural for the VSNU to play a more modest role.
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