Open access in the Netherlands

Scholarly communication of the Netherlands published in open access form can be found by searching the National Academic Research and Collaboration Information System (NARCIS).

The web portal was developed in 2004 by the Data Archiving and Networked Services [nl] of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

[4] In 2020, the Dutch research organised signed a four year transformative agreement with publishers Elsevier.

In October 2024 it was reported that in 2023 94.6% of the publications resulting from grants from NWO and ZonMw were open access.

[5] There are some 36 collections of scholarship in the Netherlands housed in digital open access repositories.