Strategic priority 1: As a national library, the KB wishes to offer everyone everywhere digital access to everything published in and about the Netherlands. ...
Main aims ...
We digitise all Dutch books, newspapers and periodicals from 1470. ...
We make agreements about copyright in order to guarantee free access to our collections. ...
The KB in 2013: ...
We offer a service for digitisation on demand (digitisation of texts from the paper collection on request) in order to meet the wishes of individual customers. ...
10% of all Dutch books, newspapers and periodicals have been digitised (60 million pages by the KB, 13 million by third parties).
We keep a digitisation register that prevents possible overlap of digitisation activities by other institutions. ...
We have concluded an umbrella agreement with the NUV (Dutch Publishers Association) about the access to digital and digitised publications of Dutch publishers including the orphaned works (publications of which the right holders are not known). ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 1/13/2010 01:50:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
