National OA mandate and its potential conflicting relationship with international scientific cooperation policies: the Dutch case

Open access mandates are setting standards on how to publish open access, as well as indicate the timeframe in which these goals are supposed to be reached. Parallel to the OA development, taken up both nationally as well supra-nationally, European and thus also Dutch academics are confronted with an increasing pressure to cooperate scientifically with European partners, via the consortia obligations expressed via for example EU funding instruments such as those under the more recent Framework programmes. In this study, the question arose to what extent Dutch output was directly under the Big... Mehr ...