The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) has published the latest number of open access articles (covering 2017) at the international open access week. Almost 23,000 peer-reviewed articles from Dutch authors are openly available for everyone.
In late 2013, State Secretary Dekker formulated objectives with regard to open access, which were then tightened in the National Open Science Plan at the start of 2017: '100 percent open access publishing by 2020'.
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 the articles of all Dutch corresponding authors are available in open access.
Figures from 2017 reveal that 50 percent of the peer-reviewed articles from 14 Dutch universities are available open access (from a total of 55,713 articles). This was true of 42 percent of articles in 2016.
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