STM publisher Elsevier and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) recently reached an agreement in principle that marks a milestone in the Netherlands' transition to Open Access scholarly publishing and provides Dutch researchers with continued subscription access to high-quality research.
Details of this 3-year agreement, which will start in 2016, will be finalized in the near future.
According to Gerard Meijer, chief negotiator for the VSNU and Chairman of Radboud University Nijmegen, this agreement gives academics at Dutch universities subscription access to Elsevier journals and allows them to publish Open Access in a selection of these journals. The Dutch universities aim to make 30% of their researchers' publications Open Access by 2018 and the agreement makes it possible to get there.
The agreement is in line with the objective of 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.
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