Open Access to Research Findings

Authors

  • Dekker Sander Dr. Sander Dekker is Minister for Legal Protection, Government of Netherlands

Keywords:

Education Research, Open Access, Netherlands, European Union, Research Funding, Sanders Dekker

Abstract

Open Access (OA) is providing access to knowledge resources - research papers, articles and books free of charge. OA applies to all research domains, including Science, Social Science, Humanities, Medicine, Engineering, and Mathematics and the like. Every year, approximately two million articles appear in 25,000 journals that are published worldwide. Having unrestricted access to research results reported in these publications can only help disseminate knowledge, move science forward, promote innovation and solve the problems that society faces. Internet has made providing instant access to them a reality. Only commercial interests hinder it. As the government funds the research for the public good with the public taxes, the citizens have the right to access the research outputs (data, information and knowledge). In academic environment and among researchers this has become a demand topic of discussion long since. But it required Government action and legislation. The document from Netherlands archive published here is the earliest initiative from any government that influenced the world in making knowledge free and accessible to all.

Author Biography

  • Dekker Sander, Dr. Sander Dekker is Minister for Legal Protection, Government of Netherlands
    Sander Dekker studied public administration at Leiden University. He served as an alderman in The Hague from 2006 to 2012. Served in People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy. He became the State Secretary for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in 2012 and Minister for Legal Protection in charge of Privacy Policy, Youth Justice, Copyright Law and Prevention at the Ministry of Justice and Security in Netherlands. Since 2012 he introduced numerous reforms in education and research in the country and represented Netherlands in European Union for almost a decade. He was of the view that freedom of education should not be a license for bad educational systems. His initiatives on Education, Science, Research, Open Access, Open Science, Knowledge Management, Journal Publishing and legislations he introduced in those areas in the country made Netherlands a model for other European countries.

References

Parliamentary Paper: 31 288. Higher Education, Research and Science Policy. No. 354. Letter From The State Secretary For Education, Culture And Science. To the President of the House of Representatives of the States General. The Hague, November 15, 2013

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Published

2021-05-02

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021): Sander Dekker: Open Sesame, Open Science

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