Dutch Research Council (NWO)

« (…) This new payment model for publications is part of a pilot project to explore how publication costs can be managed more efficiently and transparently while simultaneously giving a boost to Open Science. At the end of March, NWO and ZonMw signed an agreement with SURF to participate in the…

« The goal of this post is twofold:

to provide insights into key facts and figures; to raise awareness among authors about their rights and agency. (…) »

« NWO has joined the Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS), an initiative that promotes research on open science and evaluates its impact. (…) »

« In 2023, 94.6 percent of publications resulting from ZonMw and NWO funding were published open access, with an estimated total cost of 10.9 million euros. This information comes from the open access monitor published today by both research funders. Like last year, the monitor is entirely based on open metadata.…

« The Dutch Research Council NWO supports academic journals that wish to transition from a subscription model to an open access model in which authors do not have to pay publication fees. They can soon apply for a subsidy from a new programme: the Diamond Open Access fund. A total of…

« Since August 2024, all NWO-funded research projects have been receiving a unique identifier. Researchers are requested to include this number in their outputs such as publications, preprints, data and software. It is a globally unique identifier that helps to identify funded projects and automatically link the research outputs that result…

« In the second and final package of the 2023 Open Science Fund round, 30 projects will receive a financial boost of up to EUR 50,000. The projects cover a broad spectrum of open science practices across all scientific disciplines. (…) »

« With this call, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) wants to boost the recognition and appreciation of open science by encouraging and rewarding researchers who have taken or wish to take the lead in this movement. The primary focus of this second round is on project proposals geared towards the further…

« At least 9 out of 10 publications in 2021 resulting from research funded by NWO and ZonMw are available as open access. For NWO, this means an increase of 5% compared to last year. For ZonMw-funded research, the increase is 8%. This is according to the Open Access Monitor conducted…

« Research funders spend considerable efforts collecting information on outcomes of the research they fund. To help funders track publication output associated with their funding, Crossref initiated FundRef in 2013, enabling publishers to register funding information using persistent identifiers. However, it is hard to assess the coverage of funder metadata because…