[Open Access News] Netherlands plans to digitize everything

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Gavin Baker

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Jan 13, 2010, 2:01:38 PM1/13/10

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The National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB) has released its Strategic Plan 2010-2013. Excerpt:

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). ...