[Irtalk] Dutch lead European push to flip journals to open access

[Ina Smith]

The Netherlands is leading<http://www.openaccess.nl/en> what it hopes will be a pan-European effort in 2016 to push scholarly publishers towards open-access (OA) business models<http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676>: making more papers free for all users as soon as they are published.

http://www.nature.com/news/dutch-lead-european-push-to-flip-journals-to-open-access-1.19111

Ina Smith
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