« Plan S – an initiative of European research funders to accelerate the transition to open access – will apply to all new NWO calls published as of 1 January 2021. To give researchers sufficient time to prepare, NWO is already announcing how it will implement the guidelines for Plan S…
« On 1 July, the KNAW Humanities Cluster will begin the design and construction of an Open Access journals platform, openjournals.nl. The platform aims to offer a solution for independent Dutch academic journals. Openjournals.nl offers them a low-threshold route to becoming Open Access. The realization of this platform is possible thanks…
« Dutch research institutions and Elsevier initiate world’s first national Open Science partnership
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), The Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, have formed a novel…
« In January 2020, NWO introduced a new data management plan (DMP) template. This template is in line with Science Europe’s Core Requirements for Data Management Plans and defines a minimum set of questions that must be addressed. Conveniently, institutional DMP templates, approved by NWO, may be used instead. The DMP…
« Paula Martinez Lavanchy, the Research Data officer coordinating RDM training initiatives at TU Delft and 4TU.ResearchData co-organized the ‘First meeting of National Research Data & Software training coordination’ together with Mateusz Kuzak from the Netherlands
« Once every six years, the research organisations revise the evaluation protocol for academic research, which is used by research universities and KNAW and NWO institutions to evaluate research units. A committee, headed by Prof. Thom Palstra, has been reviewing and revising the SEP. The new protocol, effective from 2021, builds…
« The Dutch university libraries (UKB) give the mutual cooperation an extra impulse with the establishment of a program for joint « Scholarly Information Services »: UKBsis. SURF also participates in this initiative.
Over the next two years, UKBsis focuses on the realization of sustainable deals with publishers for access to scientific…
« The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), The Dutch Research Council (NWO) and information and analytics business Elsevier have reached a framework agreement. NWO President Stan Gielen: “This agreement is in accordance with Plan S and is…
« On the 21st of November, participants of the National eScience Symposium in Amsterdam witnessed a special event: the launch of the FAIR Software Route. This online step-by-step guide helps developers, researchers and data stewards creating and storing research software in a FAIR way. (…) »
« One year ago, the Dutch universities, university medical centers and research institutes, together with funding agencies NWO and ZonMW put forward the ambition to revisit their collective system of recognition and rewards. Last week the position paper “Room for everyone’s talent” – a collaborative document –…
