1. Open Access in the Netherlands: 2009 Open Access year Bas Savenije Utrecht University

2. At present All universities have signed the Berlin Declaration Network of university repositories: DARE-net 167.000 items 2 University libraries publishing Open Access journals 4 Universities with a fund for publications in Open Access journals Mandate for doctoral theses in each university

3. Springer Open Choice Pilot Springer’s Open Choice: A publication becomes Open Access, when the author pays $ 3.000 UKB License with Springer: € 2.000.000 All Dutch universities in 2007: 1.162 publications Pilot 2007-2009 For 1.250 publications Open Choice is ‘free’ Each publication > 1.250: $ 1.500

4. 2009: Open Access year Increasing awareness University Boards: –models for a university’s OA policy –towards a mandate The research community Funding agencies: towards a pilot Polytechnics: Berlin Declaration Academic friendly publishers

5. 2009: Open Access year Repositories Improving the repositories’ workflow Broadening repositories: web lectures, primary research data Improving retrievability Creating / improving use statistics

6. 2009: Open Access year Copyright Stimulating the use by researchers of: License to publish: Relation author - publisher License to deposit: Relation author - institution License to use: Relation author - reader Involving these issues in negotiations with publishers about licensing

7. UKB Open Access working group Taskforce SURF’ s rOAdmap More information: b.savenije@uu.nl