Open Access in the Netherlands:2009 Open Access year

Bas Savenije

Utrecht University

At present

• All universities have signed the Berlin Declaration• Network of university repositories:

DARE-net 167.000 items• 2 University libraries publishing Open Access

journals• 4 Universities with a fund for publications in Open

Access journals• Mandate for doctoral theses in each university

Springer Open Choice Pilot

Springer’s Open Choice:• A publication becomes Open Access, when the

author pays $ 3.000

UKB License with Springer: € 2.000.000All Dutch universities in 2007: 1.162 publications

Pilot 2007-2009• For 1.250 publications Open Choice is ‘free’• Each publication > 1.250: $ 1.500

2009: Open Access yearIncreasing awareness

• University Boards: – models for a university’s OA policy– towards a mandate

• The research community

• Funding agencies: towards a pilot

• Polytechnics: Berlin Declaration

• Academic friendly publishers

2009: Open Access yearRepositories

• Improving the repositories’ workflow

• Broadening repositories: web lectures, primary research data

• Improving retrievability

• Creating / improving use statistics

2009: Open Access year Copyright

Stimulating the use by researchers of:• License to publish: Relation author - publisher• License to deposit: Relation author - institution • License to use: Relation author - reader

Involving these issues in negotiations with publishers about licensing

UKB Open Access working group

Taskforce SURF’ s rOAdmap

More information:

b.savenije@uu.nl