OER Knowledge CloudJournal Article20132013/01Woutersen-Windhouwer, SaskiaKasper, Wendi ArantvanDuinkerken, Wyomaopen accessOER repositoryNetherlandsinstitutional repositoryNetherlandsThe Journal of Academic Librarianship391 (January 2013)105 - 107991333At 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.yes10.1016/j.acalib.2012.11.015http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133312001838http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133312001838Netherlands, Europe