Dutch Research Council and Spanish State Research Agency commit to open science

News Tank Academic - Paris - News #456962 - Published on 13/10/26 at 15:28
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The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has cancelled its subscriptions to the bibliographic databases Web of Science (Clarivate) and Scopus (Elsevier), switching to open alternatives, while the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) has joined the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.

The NWO announced on 09/10/2026 that its staff will no longer have access to the bibliographic databases Web of Science and Scopus following "NWO's long-standing commitment to Open Science and Open Research Information".

"In 2024, NWO signed the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, committing itself to using open bibliographic metadata for policy and evaluation. Relying on closed, proprietary databases for these purposes is no longer consistent with that ambition," the Council stated.

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