In addition to direct funding by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science research in the Netherlands is also funded by the following organisations:

• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) – NWO is of the opinion that research results paid for by public funds should be freely accessible worldwide. This applies to both scientific publications and other forms of scientific output. In principle, it must be possible to share research data with others as well. In the Regulation on Granting with respect to Open Access NWO asks for "immediate open access at the moment of publication".
• NWO also wants publicly funded research data to become Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). With effect from 1 October 2016 NWO implemented a data management policy in all NWO funding instruments. Starting from 1st of January 2020, NWO updated its data management protocol. The basic principles remained. For all grants awarded from the 1st of January 2020, a new data management plan (DMP) template will apply. This template is in line with Science Europe’s Core Requirements for Data Management Plans and it will better support researchers in ensuring that their data are FAIR. See the website of NWO for more information and all changes.
• NWO is one of the funders in Plan S, which will start in 2021. The first publications under Plan S requirements will appear a few years later.

• The aim of ZonMw is to promote quality and innovation of health research in order to make health care better and to keep it affordable. ZonMw has a central role in this area as national funding organisation. The activities of ZonMw cover the entire spectrum from basic research to the implementation of new treatments, disease prevention, and health care improvements. ZonMw requires researchers to make all publications resulting from their subsidised research, available via Open Access. The policy for RDM is that the data from funded projects are ‘as open as possible and as closed as necessary’.

• Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) – The Academy believes that research data and publications based on publicly funded research should be freely accessible. All publications by KNAW researchers are freely available, preferably immediately but at the latest after 18 months. The same applies to research data unless there are compelling reasons (privacy, statutory regulations) that prevent this. KNAW makes budget funds available to encourage KNAW researchers and institutes to make their publications and data accessible through open access.