%0 Journal Article %A Woutersen-Windhouwer, Saskia %C Netherlands, Europe %D 2013 %E Kasper, Wendi Arant %E vanDuinkerken, Wyoma %J The Journal of Academic Librarianship %K open access %K OER repository %K Netherlands %K institutional repository %P 105 - 107 %R 10.1016/j.acalib.2012.11.015 %T The future of open access publishing in the Netherlands: Constant dripping wears away the stone %U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133312001838 %V 39 %X 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. %Z The Journal of Academic Librarianship %8 01/2013 %9 Special Issue on Open Access %@ 991333 %* yes