Overview: NWO is the main funder of scientific research at universities and institutes through subsidies and research programmes.

UNESCO: Global Open Access Portal

Projects: NWO made 2, 5 million Euros available in 2010 for the support of OA which includes conversion of existing humanities journals to OA format.

UNESCO: Global Open Access Portal

Although Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the two major research funders (along with the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture) have signed the Berlin Declaration, neither have OA mandates.

UNESCO: Global Open Access Portal