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.

Brill Publishers, National Library of the Netherlands, OAPEN Foundation, Stichting Fair Open Access Alliance, Utrecht University Library, and VU University Amsterdam Library belong to the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.

The Dutch government has voiced the ambition that by 2019 60% of all publications from Dutch research universities should be published as open access, and by 2024 this should be 100%. The Society of Dutch Universities [nl] is negotiating big deals with publishers, where open access publication for Dutch corresponding authors is free of additional charge. 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.

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

• Internet in the Netherlands
• Education in the Netherlands
• Media of the Netherlands
• Copyright law of the Netherlands
• List of libraries in the Netherlands
• Open access in other countries
• Plan S

• Richard Poynder (2007), "Leo Waaijers, Manager of SURFshare in the Netherlands", Open and Shut?, Open Access Interviews, UK
• John Houghton (2009), Open Access - What are the economic benefits? A comparison of United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark, Knowledge Exchange
• John Houghton; Jos de Jonge; Marcia van Oploo (2009), Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation, SURF Foundation
• Egon Willighagen (2014), "On Open Access in The Netherlands", Chemblaics
• Opening the book on open access: What researchers think. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. 2016. ISBN 978-90-6984-705-4.
• Eelco Ferwerda; Frances Pinter; Niels Stern (2017), "Country Study: Netherlands", Landscape Study on Open Access and Monographs: Policies, Funding and Publishing in Eight European Countries, Knowledge Exchange, doi:10.5281/zenodo.815932
• Walt Crawford (2018). "Netherlands". Gold Open Access by Country 2012-2017. US: Cites & Insights Books.

• "Openaccess.nl" (in Dutch and English). Dutch National website providing information for academics about the advantages of open access to publicly financed research
• "Netherlands". Global Open Access Portal. UNESCO.
• "Open access repositories in the Netherlands". Registry of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Southampton.
• "Netherlands". ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies. UK: University of Southampton.
• "Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition: Our members". Sparceurope.org. SPARC Europe.
• "(Search: Country of Publisher: Netherlands)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK: Infrastructure Services for Open Access.
• Peter Suber (ed.). "(Netherlands)". Open Access Tracking Project. Harvard University. OCLC 1040261573.