UKB is the Dutch consortium of the thirteen university libraries and the National Library of the Netherlands. UKB's Strategic Plan 2007-2010 outlines these key policy objectives:

Improve delivery of content:

• jointly acquire content which is not available or easily accessible on the open internet;
• jointly develop a publication infrastructure for the scientific output of the institutions;
• jointly promote publication with open access;
• jointly deal with imminent collection budget deficits.

Enhance the infrastructure for discovery and delivery:

• jointly develop an efficient, integrated infrastructure for discovery and access, including both open and restricted information resources.
  

Support e-research and e-learning:

• jointly develop facilities for e-learning
• jointly develop facilities for e-science: storage, publication and valorisation of research output.

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