This substantial increase is due in part to transformative deals that Dutch universities have concluded with major scholarly publishers. Another cause of this success in the opt-out workflow for the‘You share, we take care!’ project, which was introduced as of 1 January 2024.
The many hundreds of full texts that have been embargoed in the Radboud Repository in recent years, in the slipstream of Metis input by Library of Science staff, were made open access in batches early this year.
The evolution of the number of FNWI open access publications from publication year 2017 through 2023:
