The VSNU (the association of Dutch universities) and the Ministry of Education have requested the university libraries to monitor the number of open access nationwide. The IEC at the TU/e has now determined the number of open access articles of TU/e scientists for the year 2015.

The measurement has been limited to "peer-reviewed" articles. The total percentage of open-access peer-reviewed articles for the year 2015 at the TU/e is 42%, of which 25% is available green open access and 17% gold open access.

State secretary Sander Dekker's goal is to have at least 60% of all scientific articles available in open access in 2018. With an open-access rate of 42%, the TU/e is on track to facilitate the open access availability of its scientific output – not least thanks to the efforts of TU/e researchers to upload their articles in the TU/e repository.