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distributing knowledge' (Max Planck Gesellschaft, 2009). They
support the transition to the electronic OA paradigm by distributing
works as OA publications and, in compliance with the requirements of
the Berlin Declaration, by depositing a 'complete version of the work
and all supplemental materials in at least one online repository that is
supported and maintained by a well-established organization that seeks
to enable Open Access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and
long term archiving'. Furthermore, they want to express through a
licence that all users are allowed to copy, use, distribute, transmit and
display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works,
in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper
attribution of authorship. Users have the right to make small numbers
of printed copies for their personal use (Max Planck Gesellschaft, 2003).
DAREnet
In filling their repositories, institutions were once again faced with a
copyright problem, as they had been when starting their digital
libraries. The transfer of copyright by the authors to the publishers as
quid pro quo for getting their works published now obstructed the
addition of those works to a repository and their subsequent
accessibility to a third party. To give their repositories substance, some
institutions chose not so much to develop policies as to start practical
initiatives, like the 'hunDAREdthousand' programme, which was
introduced in the Netherlands.
Under this programme, a large Digital Academic Repositories
(DARE) project under the name 'honDAREdduizend' started on 1
October 2005, in which all Dutch universities, the Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Art and Sciences (KNAW) sought to increase the number
of full-text publications in the repositories to 100,000 within one year.
This programme built on the SURF Foundation's DAREnet portal to
the localized digital archives of all Dutch universities and some
affiliated institutions. DAREnet has now been taken over by KNAW
and is integrated with the scientific portal NARCIS.
The DAREnet subsets 'Keur der Wetenschap' (Cream of Science),
containing publications of leading Dutch researchers, and 'Nationale
proefschriftensite' (National PhD Thesis Site) have become especially
