Dutch Research Council (NWO) Renews Three-Year Support for PKP

June 22, 2026 — Updated on June 24, 2026

By Urooj Nizami

Decorative except for the NWO and PKP logos — The building in the background of this image is the NWO headquarters at The Hague, Netherlands, at the Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië No. 300-334. Photo of the building by Vincent van Zeijst, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Jointly with the Dutch Research Council (NWO), PKP is thrilled to announce NWO’s renewed three-year financial commitment to PKP. NWO first began contributing to PKP in 2023 in recognition of the essential role our research and software play within the global scholarly publishing ecosystem. The continued partnership reflects a shared commitment to international collaboration and advancing open access.

As the Netherlands’ principal research funding organization, NWO plays a leading role in advancing scientific research across disciplines and promoting open science.

Jeroen Sondervan, Programme Leader for Open Scholarly Communication at Open Science NL, said of the renewed investment:

An ever-growing global community of academic journals relies on PKP’s Open Journal Systems. This remarkable adoption underscores the critical role that open-source publishing infrastructure plays in shaping the future of open scholarly communication. To sustain this momentum, structural and long-term support for PKP from the broader academic community is essential. Continued investment in open-source infrastructure will ensure that these tools remain robust, resilient, and responsive to evolving needs — safeguarding a future in which inclusive and equitable open scholarly communication can thrive.

NWO’s continued support, under the leadership of open science advocates such as Jeroen Sondervan, demonstrates that PKP’s impact is truly international. Their reinvestment represents meaningful support for the open infrastructure that underpins tens of thousands of scholarly journals and books that depend on the consistent reliability of PKP’s free and open source software.

The continuation of this relationship is especially welcome, creating opportunities for deeper collaboration between PKP and its diverse international community. We are grateful to NWO for its leadership and sustained commitment to advancing the global open access movement, which we at PKP regard as an inherently internationalist project, one that depends on cooperation across borders and long-term investment in shared scholarly infrastructure.