Darenet
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Darenet stands for Digital Academic Repository and is an initiative by the Dutch organisation Surfnet. The DARE programme is a joint initiative by the Dutch universities and the National Library of the Netherlands, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) with the aim to store the results of all Dutch research in a network of so-called repositories, thus facilitating access to them. DARE can be visited at www.darenet.nl. In addition in May 2005 DARE started the cream of science open access project with an online library of 25.000 publications from 200 top Dutch scientists. Because some publishers have more stringent copyright restrictions (notably Reed Elsevier) than others, free online access is limited to approximately 60% of the library content. The main disadvantage of the database is that free online accessibility is not listed for each publication and will only become apparent when a click-through is attempted.
