Open Access News

The Open Science Newsletter edition February 2025 has been released, containing amongst other items:

• Celebrating Openness
• Funding: calls and grant rewards!
• Open Science Ambassadors: best practices and support for you! 
• and more

The University of Groningen launches the second funding cycle of the open access book fund. UG- and UMCG-affiliated authors can apply for funding the publication of their open access monograph or edited volume.  

This funding instrument aims to stimulate the publication of open access academic books. The fund can be used to pay for the open access fee, also known as Book Processing Charge (BPC). The maximum reimbursement is 5,000 Euros per publication. 
The first funding cycle ran from 2022-2023 and contributed to the publication of 47 open access books.

If you have any questions about the fund, contact the MB-Open Access support team: openaccess@umcg.nl.
The UB-Open Access support team is here to help and advise you with regard to book contract negotiations: openaccess@rug.nl.

• Fund regulations, application process and key changes from the previous funding cycle
• Application form

Under the Taylor & Francis agreement, Dutch corresponding authors can publish up to 1,451 open access articles per year without APC charges.

The quota for 2024 has been reached. This means that the deal is suspended and UG/UMCG articles will no longer be eligible for the usual 100% discount on the open access fee.

Dutch corresponding authors will be able to use the new allocation of OA fee waivers as of 1 January 2025.

Alternative routes
During the suspension of the deals, authors can choose to publish closed access. Alternative routes to make your article open access may be the Taverne Amendment route or the Rights Retention Strategy, please contact us for additional information.

Please note: If you choose to publish open access, you will have to arrange the APC payment yourself.

Should your research funder (e.g. NWO or Horizon Europe) require you to share your publications immediately (no embargo) and under an open license, please get in touch with us for advice.

Contact us
If you wish to discuss the available options or if you have any questions email us at:
openaccess@umcg.nl

Due to a change in the workflow of the publishers BioMedCentral and Springer(Open), you have to select ‘University of Groningen’ from the drop-down menu, and NOT the UMCG anymore. 

More submission details are to found on the Library Guide Act on Submission and Acceptance.

Under the Oxford University Press agreement, Dutch corresponding authors are allowed to publish a maximum number of open access publications per year without APC charges: 733 articles in 2024 (of which 653 in hybrid journals and 80 in gold journals), 707 in 2025 and 680 in 2026.

The hybrid quota for 2024 has been reached. This means that from now the deal is suspended for OUP hybrid journals and UG/UMCG articles will no longer be eligible for the usual 100% discount on the open access fee. The agreement continues to be valid for gold OA journals. 

Dutch corresponding authors will be able to use the new allocation of OA fee waivers as of 1 January 2025.

Alternative routes
During the suspension of the deal, authors can choose to publish closed access. Alternative routes to make your article open access may be the Taverne Amendment route or the Rights Retention Strategy, please contact us for additional information.

Please note: If you choose to publish open access, you will have to arrange the APC payment yourself.

Should your research funder (e.g. NWO or Horizon Europe) require you to share your publications immediately (no embargo) and under an open license, please get in touch with us for advice.

Contact us
If you wish to discuss the available options or if you have any questions email us at:
openaccess@umcg.nl

The Open Science Newsletter edition October 2024 has been released, containing amongst other items:

• Publisher deals quota
• New round Public Engagement Seed Fund
• Podcast ‘Open Science Bites’ met kinderarts Laura Postma 
• UMCG Symposium ‘Patients in Research’

The Universities of The Netherlands (UNL) has agreements with major publishers Taylor & Francis and Oxford University Press, allowing Dutch corresponding authors to publish a predefined number of articles open access without additional article processing charges (APC). 
Under the Taylor & Francis agreement, Dutch corresponding authors can publish up to 1,451 open access articles per year without APC charges.
Under the Oxford University Press agreement, Dutch corresponding authors are allowed to publish a maximum number of open access publications per year without APC charges: 733 articles in 2024, 707 in 2025 and 680 in 2026.

Consequences
The 2024 quota for both publishers are expected to be reached in the third week of November. 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.

Dutch corresponding authors will be able to use the new allocation of OA fee waivers as of 1 January 2025.

Please note: If you choose to publish open access, you will have to arrange the APC payment yourself.

Alternative routes
During the suspension of the deal, authors can choose to publish closed access. Alternative routes to make your article open access may be the Taverne Amendment route or the Rights Retention Strategy. Please contact us for advice.

Funder restrictions: Should your research funder (e.g. NWO or Horizon Europe) require you to share your publications immediately (no embargo) and under an open license, please get in touch with us for advice.

If you wish to discuss the available options or if you have any questions email us at:
openaccess@umcg.nl (UMCG authors)

According to the agreement between Springer Nature and the Universities of The Netherlands (UNL), Dutch corresponding authors are allowed to publish up to 2,067 open access articles per year without additional article processing charges (APC).

Consequences
The national annual quota for 2024 is reached today. This means that the deal is suspended and UG/UMCG articles are no longer eligible for the usual 100% discount on the open access fee.

Dutch corresponding authors will be able to use the new allocation of OA fee waivers as of 1 January 2025.

Please note: If you choose to publish open access, you will have to arrange the APC payment yourself.

Alternative routes
During the suspension of the deal, authors can choose to publish closed access. Alternative routes to make your article open access may be the Taverne Amendment route or the Rights Retention Strategy. Please contact us for additional information.

Funder restrictions: Should your research funder (e.g. NWO or Horizon Europe) require you to share your publications immediately (no embargo) and under an open license, please get in touch with us for advice.

If you wish to discuss the available options or if you have any questions email us at:
openaccess@umcg.nl (UMCG authors)

According to the agreement between publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LLW) and the Universities of The Netherlands (UNL), Dutch corresponding authors are allowed to publish a maximum number of open access publications per year without additional article processing charges (APC): 270 articles in 2024, 273 in 2025 and 276 in 2026.

Consequences

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

Dutch corresponding authors will be able to use the new allocation of OA fee waivers as of 1 January 2025.

Alternative routes

Please note: During the suspension of the deal, authors can choose to publish closed access. If you choose to publish open access, you will have to arrange and pay the APC yourself. Alternative routes may be the Taverne Amendment route or the Rights Retention Strategy, please contact us for additional information.

Should your research funder (e.g. NWO or Horizon Europe) require you to share your publications immediately (no embargo) and under an open license, please get in touch with us for advice.

If you wish to discuss the available options or if you have any questions email us at:
openaccess@umcg.nl (UMCG authors)