Dutch national library will preserve the country's OA repositories

The National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) announced today that it will preserve the OA repositories in the country's Darenet network.  The details are in Dutch, but Wouter Gerritsma has posted a short English-language summary on his blog: 

Today it was announced that electronic documents deposited in the repositories of Dutch universities, connected through Darenet, will be curated by the National Library of the Netherlands.  This announcement (in Dutch) is a new compelling argument for the libraries who operate the individual repositories to convince researchers to deposit more of their work in these repositories.

With the leading position of the National Library in the field of sustainability archiving or curating electronic material we have one of the best opportunities to keep these copies accessible for future generations. If that is not going to convince them....

Comment.  It's important that these repositories will be preserved, important that the burden will be borne by a well-funded, well-respected library, and important that the repositories themselves will be freed to focus on removing access barriers to the nation's research output.