Several Open Access publishing agreements reaching their cap

EUR Library has many agreements in place with several academic publishers. These agreements allow corresponding authors affiliated with EUR and EMC to publish their peer-reviewed journal articles open access, at no additional cost. Some of these agreements, however, include a limited number of articles (also referred to as a ‘cap’). 

Currently, this is the case for the Springer deal – as previously communicated – but also for Emerald, Taylor & Francis, Oxford University Press, and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW). As for these last three publishers, and for the first time in recent years, their article caps for 2024 are expected to be reached soon. For LWW, the quota will be reached in the first week of October. As for Taylor & Francis and Oxford University Press, the quota for this year is expected to be reached in the third week of November. 

Once this limit is met, authors will no longer be able to publish under the agreement without incurring in additional costs. Researchers who wants to stay informed about the status of the cap of the publisher's agreements can sign up for a ‘notify-me service’. If your manuscript is accepted between the cap being reached and January 1, 2025, the publishers will still offer the possibility to publish Open Access, but the Article Processing Charges will not be covered by the agreements and will need to be covered by the author. 

If you are faced with this situation and lack the funds to cover these costs, the best alternative is to choose to publish under ‘closed-access’ and use our Open Access Regulation to share your article in your institutional repository after a six-month embargo. 

Note, however, that the Taverne route is not sufficient to meet the Open Access requirements of Plan S-affiliated funders such as NWO and ERC. If this applies to you, we advise you to contact the EUR Library Open Access team.