Annual open access quota reached for four publishers

Annual caps

The open access agreements between Dutch Universities (UNL) and academic publishers set a yearly limit on the number of articles that can be published open access without cost to the authors. An overview of these agreements can be found here.

Taylor and Francis cap

On December 1, 2024, the annual national quota of 1,451 articles for the nearly 2,200 hybrid (Open Select) journals of Taylor & Francis has been reached. This cap follows similar caps for Springer Nature and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) and the hybrid journals of Oxford University Press (OUP). In the WUR Journal Browser, you can always view the current status of each agreement in the journal's information section.

What are the consequences?

If your manuscript is accepted for publication in a journal covered by the publisher deals mentioned above, between the cap being reached and 1 January 2025, the publishers will still offer open access publication for your article. However, the consortium agreement will no longer cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) and you will receive an invoice.

What can you do?

If you opt for immediate Open Access publishing, because, for example, this is required by your funder, consider paying the APC from other sources, such as your research grant or your research budget. If you’re currently preparing your manuscript, a new Open Access quota will be available as of 1 January 2025 for articles accepted by Taylor & Francis, Oxford University Press, LWW and SpringerNature for publication in 2025.

You may also choose to publish your article under the publisher's subscription model and make it Open Access at no cost after an embargo period. Your article will initially be behind a paywall, but it will become freely accessible—without an open (CC) license—after the embargo. This can be done in two ways:

• By using the Taverne Amendment (article 25fa) of the Dutch Copyright law. For WU authors, the opt-out route is in place. For WR authors, the opt-in route is available only after they fill in the online participation form. Before filling in the form, first check whether you fulfil the Taverne requirements.

• By self-archiving the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM). When your article is published, please email the AAM of your article to the Library, and include the DOI if available. We'll make the AAM available in Research@WUR when the publisher’s embargo period expires.

Stay informed

In the WUR journal browser, you can find the applicable APC discounts per journal and check the current status of each agreement.

You can also sign up for a national ‘notify-me service’. You can use this service to receive updates about other publishers with a maximum number of open-access publications.

Support

If you have any questions, please contact the Open Access team of WUR Library. We're happy to help you.