From: Jos Damen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 8:35 AM

Springer and Dutch universities reach wide-ranging agreement on access

Innovative experimental approach includes subscription access and open
access (Berlin, The Hague, 20 Nov. 2014)

Springer Science+Business Media and the Association of Dutch
Universities (VSNU) have reached a landmark agreement which includes
access to more than 2,000 of Springer’s subscription journals as well
as a commitment to rapidly moving toward open access publishing for
all publicly financed research results from the Netherlands.

Although negotiations between VSNU and a number of STM publishers have
been ongoing, the agreement with Springer is the first to be signed.
Springer is no newcomer to open access, having introduced a hybrid
open access model in 2004, and having acquired leading open access
publisher BioMed Central in 2008. The agreement also follows the
objective of Sander Dekker, State Secretary in the Ministry for
Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands, to have 60 percent
of Dutch scientific output published using open access by 2019 with
this percentage rising to 100% in 2025. (...)"

More: http://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/press-releases/corporate/springer-and-dutch-universities-reach-wide-ranging-agreement-on-access/40938

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