« Starting on 1 January short works of science by UU researchers will automatically be published open access in the Utrecht University Repository. Recently, the Executive Board has agreed to this. (…) »
« Dutch universities will take a more critical stance towards global university rankings. These ‘league tables’ have methodological shortcomings and their assessment of the research achievements of universities is too one-sided, being based on the number of publications and citations. This is at odds with the Recognition & Rewards programme, through…
« As of July 3, the Dutch research portal NARCIS will be replaced by The Netherlands Research Portal on OpenAIRE CONNECT that covers the publications, datasets and projects of research institutes in The Netherlands. The portal aims to connect the Dutch research to a broad audience of (inter)national…
« The Regieorgaan Open Science, or Open Science NL for short, has been officially launched. The governing body was set up to accelerate the transition to Open Science. Many important institutions in the field of science have committed to Open Science NL: NWO, UNL, NFU, VH, SURF, KNAW,…
« 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…
« During the online DANS Data Trail ‘How the EOSC Association stimulates community-based Open Science’, DANS’ projectstaff presented several EOSC Association Task Forces. You can read the highlights of this DANS Data Trail below. (…) »
« 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…
« The University of Groningen is launching a stimulus fund to support diamond open access initiatives by UG/UMCG researchers. The fund can be used to expand and improve existing initiatives (e.g. professionalizing or scaling-up a scholar-led journal, etc.) or to create new ones (e.g. setting up a new journal or flipping…
« In 2021, NWO awarded funding to 26 projects to boost open science practices. Where we have the project leaders’ consent, we are publishing the proposals that were assessed in the first round of the Open Science Fund, including the assessment by the selection committee. (…) »
