Read and Publish agreements with publishers

Conditions of the agreement 

• All corresponding authors from TU/e can make use of the deal if the publication was submitted on or after 1 November 2020. 
• All ACM journals and ACM proceedings are included in the deal. 
• All publications will be published with the CC-BY license by default. 

How to use the deal 

1. To  be eligible for the deal, corresponding authors from TU/e must use their institutional e-mail address and indicate affiliation with TU/e correctly during the submission process. The Open Access deal will only be available for authors who indicated an @tue e-mail address. 
2. A customized e-mail is sent to the TU/e corresponding author of a manuscript in each of these instances: 
   - Acceptance to an ACM journal 
   - Acceptance to an ACM conference 
3. The author is informed via this e-mail that TU/e has an agreement with ACM under which they can make their article available Open Access at no additional cost. The e-mail contains a link to the rights management form (eRights form). 
4. On the eRights form, select option “Institutionally Paid Open Access / Permission Release”. 
5. Upon selection of the ACM Open OA option, authors are asked to select their choice of Creative Commons (CC) license. Select “CC license” and check box “Allow remixing”. Your paper will be published with CC-BY 4.0 license. 
6. After selecting CC license the author will be taken to the second page of the eRights form which is similar to what you may find from other publishers, asking authors about permissions, third-party material, warranties and originality, and funding. 

For detailed instructions with screenshots please follow ACM Open Access publication workflow. 

More info 

• Information about ACM OPEN model 

• Information about Author Rights Management 

• ACM Digital Library (full portfolio) 

Contact and support 

openaccess@tue.nl 

Conditions of the agreement 

• Articles eligible for publication under the deal: Original research articles, Review articles. 
• Eligible titles can be found in the Open Access Journal Browser. 
• All corresponding authors from TU/e and other Dutch universities can publish in Open Access under agreement with ACS.
• This agreement covers a maximum of 544 cost free open access publications per year.

If your article is not made Open Access automatically, you can contact the Open Access desk within 3 months after acceptance. Thereafter your article cannot retrospectively be made Open Access. 

How to make use of this deal 

• Please make sure to use your TU/e email address and select TU/e as affiliated institution. 
• Articles will be automatically published in Open Access based on affiliation and institutional email address under CC-BY-NC-ND license. 

Conditions of the agreement

• Only submitting (corresponding) authors affiliated with TU/e or other participating universities, such as Radboud Universiteit, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, TU Delft, Universiteit Maastricht, Universiteit van Tilburg, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and UMCs, can publish open access for free under this agreement.
• This agreement includes 28 hybrid journals from AIPP. Use the Journal Browser to find out if a journal of your choice is part of the agreement.
• Publication types that are part of the agreement: (original) research papers, review papers, brief communications and continuing education.
• This agreement covers a maximum cost free open access publications per year: 126 in 2022, 132 in 2023 and 141 in 2024.
• Start date of the agreement is 1 August 2022. To qualify for free open access, the acceptance date must be after this date and before 31 December 2024 .

How to make use of this deal

• At submission, the submitting author must select their affiliation and use the email address of that institution.
• As soon as the request is approved the Library, the article will be published open access with a CC-BY license at no additional cost for the author.

Conditions of the agreement 

• Articles eligible for publication under the deal: Original research articles, Review articles, Rapid communication, Brief Reports, Case Reports 
• Open Access publication costs are covered by a VSNU deal for 360 hybrid and full Open Access journals from CUP. Eligible titles can be found in the Open Access Journal Browser. 
• All corresponding authors from TU/e can publish research and review articles Open Access in eligible CUP journals for free. 
• The number of publications that can be published Open Access under the deal is set to a national maximum of 1,500 articles over the full contract period 

How to use the deal 

• Please make sure to use your TU/e email address when submitting your manuscript. 
• After acceptance, the corresponding author indicates his/her affiliation to TU/e. 
• By pressing the "Apply Discount" button which then appears, the article is published in Open Access and costs are covered on the basis of the VSNU deal. 

Conditions of the agreement

• Journals included in the agreement are ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology and Journal of the Electrochemical Society. 
• There must be at least one TU/e author on the author's list and TU/e affiliation must be clearly stated. 

How to use the deal 

• Select ‘Open Access publication’ during the submission process (via Scholar One). 
• Later in the process a number of waiver options will be presented. 

Select the ECS Plus option and state the TU/e affiliation in the support information tab. If this option is not selected, but Open Access publication is, an invoice will be generated. In this case contact the IEC Open Access helpdesk to help you request a waiver of the costs. 

Conditions of the agreement 

• Articles eligible for publication under the deal: Full Length Article, Review Article, Short Communication, Case Report, Data, Micro-article, Original Software Publication, Practical Guideline, Protocol, Replication Study, Short Survey, Video 
• All corresponding authors from TU/e are eligible for APC discount under the deal. To make use of the deal, you must be a corresponding author affiliated with TU/e. 
• Only selected hybrid and full Open Access journals are included in the agreement with Elsevier. To find out if a journal of your choice is part of the agreement, use the Journal Browser.

Please note that for the newly included in the agreement journals, 100% discount applies only if your article was submitted after a journal was included in the agreement. Articles submitted before this date are not eligible for free Open Access publication. Search the journal of your choice in the Open Access Journal Browser to see what date of submission is eligible for 100% APC waiver. 

How to make use of the deal 

If the conditions above are met, after acceptance corresponding author will receive an email with a link to complete author journey and choose publishing options. Please follow the steps as described in the Elsevier Workflow to apply 100% discount to your APC. 

• Indicate in the publication stage (author journey) of your article that your research was conducted at a Dutch university, a NWO or KNAW research institute, or a university of applied sciences.  
• Indicate that you opt for a CC-BY license. 
• See the workflow documentation for further explanation. 
• Then choose the Gold Open Access option 

Conditions of the agreement 

• Articles eligible for publication under the deal: Original research articles, Review articles. 
• Only selected titles are part of the deal. Check this Excel list of journals (N.B. The file contains two sheets) to find out if a journal of your choice is part of the agreement. If the journal of your choice is not in the Excel list, you cannot publish Open Access free of charge, but you will get a 10% discount on the APC. 
• The number of publications that can be published Open Access under the deal is set to a national maximum, that increases during the contract period: 71 in 2021, 86 in 2022 and 101 in 2023. If the maximum is reached, the agreement will be terminated and publications from Dutch academic institutions will no longer be eligible for free Open Access publishing. 

How to publish your article in Open Access under this agreement 

To make your article Open Access you need to follow the steps below: 

1. Visit Scholar One to submit your article to your chosen journal. 
2. Once you have uploaded your submission documents, you will be asked if you want to publish your article as Open Access. Select the ‘Yes, I want to publish my article Open Access’ option 
3. Your article now enters the peer-review process. If your article is accepted, you will receive an email with your CCBY licence. 
4. You will need to complete and sign the CCBY licence and return by email to the Emerald contact. 
5. Your article will be published Open Access via www.emerald.com/insight 

Conditions of the agreement 

• Corresponding (submitting) authors affiliated to TU/e can make use of the deal. 
• Selected Hybrid and Gold Open Access journals are included in the agreement. Check the Journal Browser or the IOP website (TU/e is subscribed to List A, B and D) to find out if a journal of your choice is part of the agreement.
• Research articles (letters, papers and special issue articles) accepted for publication within the term of this agreement are eligible. 
• Eligibility is determined upon acceptance date. 
• All eligible articles will be published under CC-BY license. 

How to make use of the deal 

• Always use your institutional email address at submission. 
• If your article is identified you will be notified during the peer-review process or shortly after acceptance 
• Eligible articles will be published Open Access automatically unless you opt out within 5 days after notification. 

For more information, please check the IOP workflow for Open Access publishing under the agreement with Dutch Universities. 

Conditions of the agreement 

• All article types are eligible for publication under the deal. 
• Corresponding authors affiliated with TU/e can publish articles Open Access free of charge in selected journals. Eligible titles can  be found in the Open Access Journal Browser. 

How to use the deal 

To publish your manuscript Open Access, please follow these steps: 

• When submitting your work, use TU/e email address and make sure your affiliation with TU/e is indicated. 
• After submission, send an email from your TU/e address to authorfees@iospress.nl with the subject “NL agreement” indicating article reference number of your submission and your affiliation with TU/e. 
• Your article will be published under CC-BY-NC 4.0. 

More information about this deal can be found at IOS Press website. 

Conditions of the agreement 

• Articles eligible for publication under the deal: Original research articles, review, paper, perspective, communication. 
• All corresponding authors affiliated with TU/e can make use of the deal. 
• 37 hybrid and 3 Open Access journals of RSC are included in the agreement. Search for eligible titles in the Open Access Journal Browser. 

How to make use of the deal 

• Use TU/e email domain when submitting your manuscript, this will result in gold Open Access publication fees being automatically waived. 
• Follow RSC’s instruction to publish your manuscript in gold Open Access for free. 

Conditions of the agreement 

1. The agreement applies to the following titles: 

• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 

• Proceedings of the Royal Society A 

• Journal of the Royal Society Interface 

• Interface Focus 

• Royal Society Open Science 

2. All corresponding authors from TU/e can make use of the deal. 

3. Eligibility is determined at the moment of submission. 

4. All articles will be published with a CC-BY license. 

How to use the deal 

• At submission, indicate your TU/e affiliation and use your institutional email address. 
• In the Author Journey, when offered Open Access, select the “Read & Publish model” option. Having done that, Open Access publishing costs will be automatically covered by the agreement. 

More information 

• For the journals that are not part of the agreement and publications that do not meet the criteria, authors can make their work Open Access via Green route. RSL’s Green Open Access policy is Plan S compliant. Read more. 
• Author guidelines 

Conditions of the agreement 

• All corresponding authors from TU/e can make use of the deal. 
• The agreement covers: original and review papers, brief communications, continuing education, case reports, letters to the editor, invited letters. 
• The agreement offers 100% discount on Open Access costs and applies to 875 SAGE Choice journals. See the Open Access Journal Browser to find eligible titles. 
• 20% reduction on Open Access publishing costs is offered FOR 160+ SAGE Pure Gold Open Access journals. This discount is applied automatically when using your institutional e-mail account. 

How to make use of this deal 

• SAGE will recognize the corresponding author as a researcher of a Dutch university, based on e-mail affiliation; authors should therefore use their institutional email address. 
• After acceptance of the paper the corresponding author should sign the standard non-OA contributor form. 
• The author will receive an e-mail with the offer to make the paper Open Access free of charge as part of the agreement between Dutch universities and Sage (applies to 875 SAGE Choice journals). 
• To accept this offer the application form included in the email must be filled in and returned immediately. On the form you will be asked for a code, which you do not need to fill in. 

The 20% discount (VSNU agreement discount) for publication in SAGE's Pure Gold Access Journal will automatically be applied to the author processing charge (APC) when the corresponding author is recognized as affiliated to a Dutch university. 

Acta Physica Polonica B 

Advances in High Energy Physics 

Chinese Physics C9 

European Physical Journal C 

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 

Journal of High Energy Physics 

New Journal of Physics 

Nuclear Physics B 

Physical Review C 

Physical Review D 

Physical Review Letters 

Physics Letters B 

Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics 

How to make use of this deal 

SCOAP3 centrally pays publishers from a common fund at CERN, to which libraries, library consortia, research institutions and funding agencies jointly contribute. Publishing in Open Access is free for all authors. Therefore, no special steps are required to make you article Open Access. Just submit your article as you would normally do and upon acceptance it will automatically be made available free of charge. 

Conditions of the agreement 

• All hybrid and Open Access journals of SPIE are included in the deal. 
• Teaching, research staff and students from TU/e are eligible to publish Open Access articles in all journals of SPIE under the agreement. 
• Eligibility of the authors will be checked at the moment of submission on the basis of indicated affiliation from a customized drop down list or TU/e email domain. 
• Authors retain copyright to their publications. All publications will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY). 

How to use the deal 

Please follow SPIE submission workflow to have your article published in Open Access. 

Contact and support 

openaccess@tue.nl 

Conditions of the agreement 

• All corresponding authors from TU/e can publish under this deal Open Access for free. 
• There is a limited number of publications under the deal: up to a national total of 2,080 articles. If the maximum is reached, the agreement will be terminated and publications from Dutch academic institutions will no longer be eligible for free Open Access publishing.
• Eligible publication types are: original papers, review papers, brief communications and continuing education papers. 
• The agreement is valid for more than1,850 journals within the Springer OpenChoice programme. Journals from learned societies, BioMedCentral and SpringerOpen are not part of the Springer OpenChoice programme and therefore not included in the agreement. Use the Open Access Journal Browser to find eligible titles. 

How to make use of the deal 

• Use the Open Access Journal Browser to find eligible titles. 
• After article acceptance, corresponding authors will be asked to identify themselves as author affiliated with a Dutch academic institution and agree to the Open Access copyright and license terms. You can confirm the affiliation by choosing it in the “Special Affiliation” drop-down menu. 
• Your eligibility to publish your article in Open Access under this agreement will be verified by your university and Springer during the production process. 

Conditions of the agreement 

• The agreement applies to more than 2,300 Taylor & Francis and Routledge hybrid journals. Eligible titles can also be found in the Open Access Journal Browser. 
• There is publication cap up to a national total of 1451 articles in 2023. If the maximum is reached, the agreement will be terminated and publications from Dutch academic institutions will no longer be eligible for free Open Access publishing. 
• Eligible publication types include original research articles and review papers; editorials, announcements and book reviews are not included in the agreement. 

How to make use of the deal 

• Use your TU/e email address when submitting a paper. Taylor & Francis will recognize TU/e affiliated corresponding authors based on their email domain. 
• After acceptance of a paper, the corresponding author will receive an email asking to choose an Open Access publishing agreement. After that your article will be automatically published in Open Access.  
• See the workflow documentation for further explanation. 

Conditions of the agreement

- Journals participating in the agreement are Environment and History, Environmental Values and Global Environment

- Eligible article types: Peer reviewed research articles, Review Papers, Brief Communications, Interviews, Special Reports

- All publications will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY)

How to make use of the deal

- Submit an article using your TU/e email address and indicate affiliation with TU/e. Eligibility of the author will be determined automatically.

Conditions of the agreement

• Submitting authors (teaching, research staff and students) affiliated to TU/e can publish open access in the selected journals without any costs.
• All 34 of Thieme’s English language hybrid and all 60 full open access journals are part of the agreement. Use Journal Browser to determine if a journal of your choice is part of the agreement.
• Publication types that are part of the agreement: original papers and review papers, brief communications, continuing education, case reports, letters to the editor and invited letters.

How to make use of this deal

• For Thieme’s workflow to determine your eligibility for free open access publishing, use your TU/e email address or current ORCID when submitting a paper.
• Eligible articles that are part of the agreement will be published open access with a CC-BY license.
• Use Thieme’s submission walkthrough for further instructions.

Conditions of the agreement 

• This agreement applies to all articles accepted after 4 March 2016 and before 31 December 2023. 
• Articles eligible for publication under the deal: primary research and review articles. 
• All corresponding authors from TU/e can publish primary research and review articles in Open Access free of charge. Corresponding authors defined by Wiley as the author who manages correspondence during the publication process. 
• The agreement applies to 1400 hybrid journals. See in the Open Access Journal Browser whether the journal of your choice is included in the agreement. 
• NOTE: Wiley transitions a number of journals to be fully gold Open Access from January 2023. Starting from a specific date, any new submissions to these journals will not be eligible for free Open Access publishing under the current agreement between Wiley and TU/e. The list of transitioning journals and submission dates can be found here.
• The agreement does not include “full Open Access” journals from the Wiley Open Access program. If you publish your article in one of Wiley's "full Open Access" journals you will have to make your own arrangements for covering the publication costs. 

How to publish your article in Open Access under this agreement? 

• Use your TU/e email address when submitting a paper. Wiley recognize eligible authors on the basis of their affiliation and email address. 
• After acceptance of your article, log-in or register on Wiley’s “Author services” and select your TU/e affiliation.  
• Choose “Order OnlineOpen”. See the instruction "How to Order OnlineOpen". 
• Based on your TU/e affiliation, the article processing costs will be waived. Wiley will confirm this by email. 

Submitting authors are encouraged to indicate their affiliation in the last step of submission to determine if they are eligible for discounts under the Open Access program. 

The Open Access program is pre-selected if authors are submitting from within the TU/e network (IP-range).

Conditions of the agreement 

• All corresponding authors from TU/e can make use of the deal. 
• The agreement covers: original and review papers, brief communications, continuing education, case reports, letters to the editor, invited letters. 
• The agreement offers 100% discount on Open Access costs and applies to 875 SAGE Choice journals. See the Open Access Journal Browser to find eligible titles. 
• 20% reduction on Open Access publishing costs is offered FOR 160+ SAGE Pure Gold Open Access journals. This discount is applied automatically when using your institutional e-mail account. 

How to make use of this deal 

• SAGE will recognize the corresponding author as a researcher of a Dutch university, based on e-mail affiliation; authors should therefore use their institutional email address. 
• After acceptance of the paper the corresponding author should sign the standard non-OA contributor form. 
• The author will receive an e-mail with the offer to make the paper Open Access free of charge as part of the agreement between Dutch universities and Sage (applies to 875 SAGE Choice journals). 
• To accept this offer the application form included in the email must be filled in and returned immediately. On the form you will be asked for a code, which you do not need to fill in. 

The 20% discount (VSNU agreement discount) for publication in SAGE's Pure Gold Access Journal will automatically be applied to the author processing charge (APC) when the corresponding author is recognized as affiliated to a Dutch university.