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Quota-based open access publishing agreements: caps expected in 2025 for LWW, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Oxford University Press, and ACS

Article in the spotlight for May 2025
The article in the spotlight for the month of May 2025 is titled 'Social infrastructures as pillars of resistance against housing commodification in creative city Groningen’, written by Bart Popken and Ethemcan Turhan (both from the Faculty of Spatial Sciences).

As of April 2025, the UG is a sponsoring member of Peer Community In (PCI). PCI is a scholar-led, non-profit organization offering peer review, recommendation and publication of scientific articles in open access for free. PCI is currently supported by 160+ universities and research institutions worldwide. This initiative offers a transparent, inclusive and affordable alternative publication model which is in line with the UG’s open science values and objectives. 

The article in the spotlight for the month of March 2025 is titled 'De-Google-ing' our Students: A User Approach to Understanding Archival Media Discovery in the Classroom, written by Sabrina Sauer, Berber Hagedoorn and Susan Aasman (all from the Faculty of Arts). 

The University of Groningen (UG) and the UMCG participate in a national open access agreement with the publisher PLOS. The agreement applies to seven journals. All publication types are covered under the agreement. The deal has different financial implications for UG and UMCG authors

The UG has renewed several existing open access agreements. Through these agreements UG researchers get reading access to scientific journals, as well as the right to publish open access at no extra cost.

Article in the spotlight for December 2024
The article in the spotlight for the month of December 2024 is titled Revolutionary discourses from the past: a digital hermeneutical analysis of widely read academic publications on the social impact and significance of the internet, written by Nathalie Fridzema, Susan Aasman, Tom Slootweg and Rik Smit (all from the Faculty of Arts).

Springer Nature open access deal: the national annual quota for 2024 has been reached. This means that from that moment the deal will be suspended and UG/UMCG articles will no longer be eligible for the usual 100% discount on the open access fee.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) open access deal: the national annual quota for 2024 is expected to be reached in mid-October.

Following the theme of this year's International Open Access Week "Community over commercialization," the University of Groningen Library (UB) is highlighting community-driven publishing alternatives, so-called diamond open access (OA) initiatives. Want to learn more about diamond OA and how we support it? Meet our experts Giulia Trentacosti and Margreet Nieborg.

The article in the spotlight for the month of September 2024 is titled The effectiveness and efficacy of driving interventions with ADHD: a Dutch perspective, written by Roy Noordhuis, Anselm Fuermaier and Dick de Waard (all connected to the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences).