Abstract
On 1 July 2015 the Dutch Copyright Contract Act entered into force1 , including the new Art. 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act that relates to open access.2 This contribution discusses the background to the open access provision and what its introduction means. According to the explanatory memorandum, the new Art. 25fa of the Copyright Act that has been added by amendment meets ‘the growing need to make scientific work available in the form of open access’. Open access means, put briefly, that scientific works are made available online free of charge. In open access a distinction can be made between Golden Road open access and Green Road open access. With Golden open access the publisher directly puts the work online for users free of charge. In doing so, the publisher usually requests compensation from the author, his research institute or grant provider.3 With Green open access a work is first published in the traditional manner in a paper and/or online journal, with the work only being available to subscribers for a fee, before the work is placed in a repository or otherwise put online by the author or his research institution.
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