@article { title = {The future of open access publishing in the Netherlands: Constant dripping wears away the stone}, year = {2013}, month = {01/2013}, author = {Woutersen-Windhouwer, Saskia}, editor = {Kasper, Wendi Arant and vanDuinkerken, Wyoma}, keywords = {open access, OER repository, Netherlands, institutional repository}, country = {Netherlands}, journal = {The Journal of Academic Librarianship}, volume = {39}, issue = {1 (January 2013)}, pages = {105-107}, issn = {991333}, abstract = {At present, about 20% of the scientific publications worldwide are freely (open-access) available (Björk, Welling, Laakso, Majlender, Hedlund, & Guðnason, 2010) and this percentage is constantly on the rise. In the Netherlands, a similar trend is visible (see Fig. 1). Why is open-access (OA) publishing important, and why will it become even more important in the coming years? This article briefly discusses these questions from three different perspectives in the Netherlands: the libraries, the funding agencies, and the authors.}, refereed = {yes}, doi = {10.1016/j.acalib.2012.11.015}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133312001838}, }