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- Agreements with Oxford University Press and with Elsevier
From this year, as part of a national VSNU agreement, the Open Access costs have also been compensated for LUMC staff for
262 hybrid journals of Oxford University Press, like the journal Brain. This will apply per year for a maximum of 760 articles for the universities together. The agreement ends on 31 December 2020. However, that means that towards the end of a year, the budgets may be used up. More information and an explanation about the procedure are available on the national open access portal: openaccess.nl and on the OUP website.
A similar agreement relating to Elsevier journals has been renewed for 6 months and now has 400 hybrid and 150 full open-access journals. See also the openaccess.nl website or visit Walaeus Open Access guide.
Ask any question via Walaeus@lumc.nl or the Open Access Team at openaccess@library.leidenuniv.nl.
- Information about the Taverne Amendement
On Thursday 31 January, the national pilot ‘You share, we take care’ was launched. From 2019, in partnership with researchers, Dutch universities are now giving an extra boost to open access by making publications available after six months. Although it says in the communication that Leiden University is taking part in the pilot, in consultation with the NFU it was decided that the University Medical Centers would not initially take part in the pilot. More information
- Plan S
More information about Plan S has been posted on Albinusnet
(LUMC only). The information is also available on the NWO website.
- Open Access Books
Offering a book for free online does not automatically result in optimal use of the book, says Ronald Snijder, who got his PhD on 29 January on ‘The deliverance of open access books: examining usage and dissemination’. Distribution of open access monographs is only possible by removing paywalls, but the use level is mainly determined by language, subject, infrastructure and trust in the provider. Thanks to the availability of open access books, more academic publications are being read in development countries. Most people look for open access books using filter mechanisms such as library catalogues, references on social media, specialised websites or blogs. See the press release and the thesis
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