Dutch lead European push to flip journals to open access

The Netherlands is leading what it hopes will be a pan-European effort in 2016 to push scholarly publishers towards open-access (OA) business models: making more papers free for all users as soon as they are published.

A close review is made on the situation in The Netherlands and the UK, as well as some other proposals coming from other Northern European countries. In the end, may be a successful push for immediate OA would ultimately need to be global — not limited to Europe.