Maximum number of free hybrid open access articles at Oxford University Press has been reached

Annual caps

The Read & Publish 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. The annual cap has been reached for Oxford University Press (OUP) hybrid journals. This cap follows similar caps for Springer Nature and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW). For Taylor & Francis, we expect to reach the maximum in the last week of November.

What are the consequences?

If your manuscript is accepted for publication in an OUP hybrid journal, between now and 1 January 2025, Oxford University Press will still offer to publish your article open access, but the consortium agreement does no longer cover the Article Processing Charges (APC). If you still choose to publish Open Access, you will receive an invoice.

OUP's Full Open Access journals covered by the deal

Note that the publication quota has not been reached for the full open access journals at OUP that are also part of the consortium deal. This includes the following full Open Access journals:

• Briefings In Bioinformatics
• FEMS Microbiology Ecology
• FEMS Microbiology Reviews
• FEMS Yeast Research
• Geophysical Journal International
• Health Policy and Planning
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
• Pathogens and Disease

What can you do?

If you opt for immediate Open Access publishing, because, for example, this 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 Oxford University Press for publication in 2025.

You may also choose to publish your article under the Oxford University Press 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.

Background

Dutch universities, university medical centres, and KNAW institutes have agreements with publishers to publish articles Open Access at no cost to authors. The agreement with Oxford University Press covered a maximum of 733 articles for 2024.

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.