All Videos Tagged Netherlands (Open Access Week) - Open Access Week

Interview editor and co-founder Open Access journal

2010-10-18T12:28:29.942Z

Dr. Uwe Matzat is co-founder and editor of the Open Access journal The International Journal of Internet Science. Dr. Matzat is an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Author rights, your rights

2010-07-13T08:19:51.686Z

SURFdirect, SURF's digital rights expert community, has produced a short film on Author rights, your rights.

In a short film (2,5 minute) Dirk Visser, Professor of intellectual property law at Leiden University and Martijn Katan, Professor of Nutrition at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, both in the Netherlands, make a point of copyright being author rights. Therefore the author must always carefully consider whether it is a good idea to transfer his or her copyright to a publisher, and in most cases this is not a good idea and even unnecessary. More and more publishers see reason and accept that a complete transfer of rights cannot be demanded from authors.

Many academic authors believe it is necessary to transfer their copyright to the publisher when they publish a scientific article.
This however, is not the case. Copyright is something that lies with the author, and that the author can dispose of as he or she sees fit. The author can choose to transfer his copyright to the publisher, but this often leads to him not being able to do what he wants with his work. He does not have to do this. An author can also authorize the publisher to publish his work by using a licence. With this licence a publisher can publish as usual and if necessary still take measures against illegal copy making. For the author a licence means that he retains the right to publish his work somewhere else, for example freely accessible on the internet, or on a department's website, or an improved version in a different medium.

Open Access: Just Publish

2010-07-12T13:59:49.667Z

Dr Sijbolt Noorda, (Chairman of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), Paul Doop (Vice president of The Board University of Amsterdam and University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam ), Huib de Jong (Member of The Board, University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht), Martin Bossenbroek (Director, National Library of the Netherlands) and various other administrators, university professors, and university deans give their view on Open Access in a short film commissioned by SURF.

Dutch higher education institutions believe that radical improvements need to be made in Open Access to knowledge, information and data. Compared to the age of paper, digitisation of research and scientific/scholarly communication opens up opportunities that are still underutilised. Improved access creates a solid basis for the transfer of knowledge in education, knowledge generation for research, and knowledge valorisation for civil society. The central idea is that the results of publicly financed research should also be available to the public.

The Dutch higher education sector has declared 2009 to be Open Access Year. The aim is to boost Open Access to the results of scientific/scholarly and practice-based research. Efforts will be made throughout the year to formulate and implement an Open Access policy, develop and improve the knowledge infrastructure, establish a clear legal framework, and create awareness with all stakeholders.

The Dutch version without subtitles is available on: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYIzUb0LouI