Update: Quota-based publishing agreements: 2025 caps reached for LWW, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Oxford University Press and ACS

Several publishers have quota-based open access agreements. Once the agreed-upon number of open access articles has been published, the national quota is reached and the cost of publishing will no longer be covered centrally.

Based on current publication trends, we expect the following caps to be reached in 2025:

1. LWW (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) – already reached (status: 8-9-2025)

2. Taylor & Francis (T&F) - already reached (status: 14-10-2025)

3. Springer - already reached (status: 23-10-2025)

4. Oxford University Press (OUP) - already reached (status: 30-10-2025)

5. American Chemical Society (ACS) - already reached (status: 5-11-2025)

Please take this into account when submitting to these publishers. After the cap is reached, authors may be faced with article processing charges (APCs) unless other arrangements are made.

Alternative routes to open access

If your article is accepted after the cap has been reached, there are still ways to make your publication openly available. For example, you can use the Taverne Amendment, which allows you to share the publisher version (version of record) of your article six months after publication via the UG institutional repository Pure. Additionally, your research funder might cover the APC in fully open access journals.

Notify-me service on publisher deals quota

If you want to stay informed about the status of deals in the future, please sign up for the ‘notify-me service’ maintained by Leiden University. 

For more information about your options, please contact us at openaccess rug.nl.