Authors please note: we'll soon reach quotas for Open Access publishing!

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:

• LWW (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) – August
• Taylor & Francis (T&F) – October
• Oxford University Press (OUP) – October
• American Chemical Society (ACS) – October

• Springer – November

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.
• The research funder covers the APC (Article Processing Charges) in open access journals, and a budget for this is included in the project proposal.
• The researcher or department covers the APC costs themselves.

You can make use of the Taverne Amendment, which allows you to share the publisher’s version (version of record) of your article via the RUG institutional repository Pure six months after publication.
Note: Research funders such as NWO, ZonMW, and European research funding projects do not permit this.

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