The End of the Paywall

Authors

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

Keywords:

Open Access, Open Science, Science and Technology, Research, Higher Education, Netherlands, European Union, Sandel Dekker, Dutch. Horizon Europe, Journals.

Abstract

This document is the transcript of the full text of the inspiring speech by the then Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science; Sander Dekker at the Academic Publishing Conference in Berlin in 2014. For Dekker Open Access is a moral obligation, based on the principles of openness and democracy. It is a matter of principle that the whole of society should have access to the scientific knowledge for which it have paid for, which is essential  and inescapable for its progress. Comparing Open Access to the Olympic idea he remarked that ‘participation is not more important than victory, participation is victory’ and pleaded for the end of the pay wall in access to results of research.

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

Sander Dekker (2014). The End of the Pay wall. (Transcript of the Speech). Academic Publishing Conference, Berlin, 28 January, 2014 . https://www.scienceguide.nl/2014/01/the-end-of-the-paywall/

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Published

2021-05-02

Issue

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

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