Springer open access cap expected to be reached in November
The open access (OA) publication cap for Springer hybrid journals, are projected to be reached in November 2025. This affects researchers who want to publish here.
Caps of deals with other publishers also reached soon
Please note that deals with other publishers may also reach their caps soon. The deal with Lippincott Williams & Wilkens (LWW) is expected to reach its cap in September. The deals with Taylor & Francis (T&F), American Chemical Society (ACS) and Oxford ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Press (OUP) are likely to reach their caps in October.
Find and when the caps are expected to be reached at openaccess.nl. You can also find out which OA deals have a cap and which do not in the .
What are the consequences?
When the cap is met, articles submitted to the hybrid journals can still be published without publication costs, but only as ‘closed access’ behind the paywall.
What can you do?
Did you submit your article for OA publication in a hybrid journal of this publishers? And do you expect that your manuscript is accepted in November or December 2025? Then we advise you to look for other financing options.
Have you not submitted your manuscript yet? Consider waiting until 2026, when new agreements may be entered into.
You can also choose a journal from another publisher. Check the to find OA publishers.
You might be able to publish via the green open access route (Taverne). This way, your closed published article will become OA available in the , 6 months after publication. Check your funder requirements to see if these are met when you publish open access after 6 months.
Does your research have external funding?
Some researchers make use of external funding to execute their research, from which the grants have allocated money that can be used to pay for the OA publication costs (APC). We kindly request these researchers to use these funds to pay for the publication costs. This way, other researchers without (external) funding, are given the opportunity to use the current agreement with the publisher before the caps is reached.
Do you have any questions?
About open access deals
Dutch universities, university medical centres and KNAW institutes have agreed with certain publishers that a certain number of articles can be published OA every year with (up to 100%) discount. These open access deals will reach their caps when the maximum number of articles is published with this discount. Read more about these deals on our page on open access funding.