Tag: SURF
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OAPEN-NL Final Report
Last Tuesday, during Open Access Week, the final report of the OAPEN-NL project was presented at the seminar ‘Open Access for academic books in the Netherlands’. As one of the co-authors of the report I focused on the qualitative aspects of the OAPEN-NL research, looking at user needs and expectations concerning OA monographs. You can…
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Open Access Week 2009
At the moment I am busy researching Open Access Week 2009, which will be from October 19th until the 23rd. It will be an international event, which aims to: “(…) broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and…
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2009: Open Access Year
2009 has been declared Open Access year. Thus reports SURF, the collaborative organization for higher education institutions and research institutes in the Netherlands, aimed at breakthrough innovations in ICT. The involved parties are the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Dutch higher education sector…
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Highlights from APE 2009 – Preconference Day
From the 19th to the 21st of January I was in Berlin to visit this magnificent city and to go to the APE (Academic Publishing in Europe) conference. From their website: “APE Conferences encourage the debate about the future of scientific publications, information dissemination and access to scientific results. They offer an independent forum for ‘open…