Good plan: Dutch publications digitized (52)

The Royal Library (KB), the national library of The Netherlands, plans to digitize all Dutch publications since 1470. You could easily say what took them so long, but in this case I’d say rather late than never. Good plan!

From their policy for the next 3 years:

1. We offer everyone access to everything published in and about the Netherlands.
2.We improve the national information infrastructure.
3. We guarantee long-term storage of digital information.
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This includes all digital publications.

From the full document I can conclude that digital access to information on scientific publications is one of their focuses. As someone who is outside the academic system, yet craving for proper remote access, I can only applaud this.

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