%0 Report %1 knaw2016opening %A KNAW, %C Amsterdam %D 2016 %K report open_access %T Opening the Book on Open Access: What Researchers Think %U https://www.knaw.nl/en/news/publications/opening-the-book-on-open-access# %X It is important for science to be accessible, not only for the researchers themselves and for scientific education but also for society as a whole and for ‘the citizen’. • Making ‘green’ or ‘gold’ open access mandatory will greatly boost the move- ment towards open access. • There are major differences between the disciplines. • In some disciplines, open access is not an issue because researchers publish their work in open access repositories. • The quality of publications has the highest priority, and open access does not in itself offer any guarantee for quality. • Research assessment is still too heavily based on closed access leading journals with a high impact factor. • The charges associated with open access publishing are still too high for researchers, and the process is often cumbersome. • There is a great deal of uncertainty regarding the requirements and pos- sibilities of open access.

@techreport{knaw2016opening, abstract = {It is important for science to be accessible, not only for the researchers themselves and for scientific education but also for society as a whole and for ‘the citizen’. • Making ‘green’ or ‘gold’ open access mandatory will greatly boost the move- ment towards open access. • There are major differences between the disciplines. • In some disciplines, open access is not an issue because researchers publish their work in open access repositories. • The quality of publications has the highest priority, and open access does not in itself offer any guarantee for quality. • Research assessment is still too heavily based on closed access leading journals with a high impact factor. • The charges associated with open access publishing are still too high for researchers, and the process is often cumbersome. • There is a great deal of uncertainty regarding the requirements and pos- sibilities of open access.}, added-at = {2016-06-07T02:32:34.000+0200}, address = {Amsterdam}, author = {KNAW}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23aa3109af9a101b02478c1edc0912bc5/isaric1}, description = {ISBN: 978-90-6984-705-4}, institution = {KNAW}, interhash = {158e66fb3855a27be2d5e00ff1d6dd6f}, intrahash = {3aa3109af9a101b02478c1edc0912bc5}, keywords = {report open_access}, timestamp = {2016-06-07T07:01:57.000+0200}, title = {Opening the Book on Open Access: What Researchers Think}, type = {Publication}, url = {https://www.knaw.nl/en/news/publications/opening-the-book-on-open-access#}, year = 2016 }