The future of open access publishing in the Netherlands: Constant dripping wears away the stone
Published | January 2013 |
Type of work | Special Issue on Open Access |
Journal | The Journal of Academic Librarianship Volume 39, Issue 1 (January 2013), Pages 105 - 107 |
Editors | Kasper, Wendi Arant and vanDuinkerken, Wyoma |
Country | Netherlands, Europe |
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.Keywords | institutional repository · Netherlands · OER repository · open access |
ISSN | 991333 |
Refereed | Yes |
Rights | Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved |
DOI | 10.1016/j.acalib.2012.11.015 |
URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133312001838 |
Other information | The Journal of Academic Librarianship |
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