We expect to reach the national annual quota of 2,080 publications in early November 2022. This means that 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 2023.
During the suspension of the deal authors can choose to publish closed access or open access, but in the latter case they will have to arrange the APC payment themselves. 

If you want to stay informed about the status of the Springer deal, please sign up for the new ‘notify-me service’ maintained by the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).