Advancing open access in the Netherlands after 2020: from quantity to quality

Bosman, Jeroen; Jonge, Hans de; Krämer, Bianca; Sondervan, Jeroen

doi:10.1629/uksg.545

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“…The Netherlands has for a long time been strongly engaged in making all publicly funded research available through OA. The ambition to reach 100 percent OA for all publicly funded research was first formulated in 2013 in a Letter to Parliament by State Secretary Sander Dekker, who expressed a clear preference for the gold route over the green (repository) route to OA (Bosman et al, 2021). On February 9th, 2017, the report National Plan Open Science (NPOS) was presented in The Hague.…”

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Should open access lead to closed research? The trends towards paying to perform research

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Open Access (OA) emerged as an important transition in scholarly publishing worldwide during the past two decades. So far, this transition is increasingly based on article processing charges (APC), which create a new paywall on the researchers’ side. Publishing is part of the research process and thereby necessary to perform research. This study analyses the global trends towards paying to perform research by combing observed trends in publishing from 2015 to 2020 with an APC price list. APC expenses have sharply increased among six countries with different OA policies: the USA, China, the UK, France, the Netherlands, and Norway. The estimated global revenues from APC among major publishers now exceed 2 billion US dollars annually. Mergers and takeovers show that the industry is moving towards APC-based OA as the more profitable business model. Research publishing will be closed to those who cannot make an institution or project money payment. Our results lead to a discussion of whether APC is the best way to promote OA.

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“…Further, the university has abandoned the impact factor when hiring and promoting staff while instead favouring OS-related activity and achievements [ 36 ]. It is likely that the state-level political context favours these efforts, considering that the Netherlands has a political commitment from 2013 to achieve 100% open access for publicly funded research publications [ 37 ]. Although publishing open access represents a limited aspect of OS, such policies constitute external pressures that may elicit change in affected institutions.…”

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Close to open—Factors that hinder and promote open science in ecology research and education

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The Open Science (OS) movement is rapidly gaining traction among policy-makers, research funders, scientific journals and individual scientists. Despite these tendencies, the pace of implementing OS throughout the scientific process and across the scientific community remains slow. Thus, a better understanding of the conditions that affect OS engagement, and in particular, of how practitioners learn, use, conduct and share research openly can guide those seeking to implement OS more broadly. We surveyed participants at an OS workshop hosted by the Living Norway Ecological Data Network in 2020 to learn how they perceived OS and its importance in their research, supervision and teaching. Further, we wanted to know what OS practices they had encountered in their education and what they saw as hindering or helping their engagement with OS. The survey contained scaled-response and open-ended questions, allowing for a mixed-methods approach. We obtained survey responses from 60 out of 128 workshop participants (47%). Responses indicated that usage and sharing of open data and code, as well as open access publication, were the most frequent OS practices. Only a minority of respondents reported having encountered OS in their formal education. A majority also viewed OS as less important in their teaching than in their research and supervisory roles. The respondents’ suggestions for what would facilitate greater OS engagement in the future included knowledge, guidelines, and resources, but also social and structural support. These are aspects that could be strengthened by promoting explicit implementation of OS practices in higher education and by nurturing a more inclusive and equitable OS culture. We argue that incorporating OS in teaching and learning of science can yield substantial benefits to the research community, student learning, and ultimately, to the wider societal objectives of science and higher education.

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“…Pero algunos resultados son muy notables y muestran que conseguir la totalidad en abierto es posible, aunque no esté siendo fácil. Una prueba de la proximidad a esta plenitud la encontramos en las voces que reclaman una mirada más exigente y cualitativa del objetivo final (Bosman, 2021).…”

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Open access: a journey from impossible to probable, but still uncertain

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Abadal

2023

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An overview of the evolution of open access (OA) to scientific publications over the last 20 years is presented. This retrospective look allows us to make two observations that seem to overlap: on the one hand, how close the initial objective seems to be to what initially seemed utopian and, on the other, the unanticipated and solid obstacles that open access has encountered along the way, as well as the unexpected and diverse solutions that are emerging to overcome them. The overall assessment of OA is positive, and it underscores that open access is (or is becoming) possible, that it is good, and that it is necessary. However, this overall positive evolution has come up against two major obstacles that are slowing its progress: the double payments generated by hybrid journals (subscription and article processing charges [APCs]) and the unchecked growth in APCs. In addition, this intensive use of APCs is creating a publishing gap between publishers that charge fees to authors and those that do not, and ultimately, it is causing dissension regarding the (previously shared) strategy toward open access. There are no immediate, one-off solutions to overcome the aforementioned dysfunctions, although three actions that, in the medium term, can remedy them can be mentioned: changing the approach to the evaluation of science, adopting measures to regulate APCs, and promoting alternative publication models. Finally, it should be noted that OA has acted as the vanguard and spearhead of a broader movement: that of open science.

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Advancing open access in the Netherlands after 2020: from quantity to quality

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

Should open access lead to closed research? The trends towards paying to perform research

Should open access lead to closed research? The trends towards paying to perform research

Close to open—Factors that hinder and promote open science in ecology research and education

Open access: a journey from impossible to probable, but still uncertain

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