Taylor & Francis cap has been reached

Under the Read & Publish deals that UNL signs annually with various large publishers, authors affiliated with Dutch universities can publish Open Access in these publishers' hybrid journals without further costs. Some publishers have a limit ('cap') on the number of articles that can be published annually under this deal. For Taylor & Francis, this cap has just been reached. This means that no new articles can be published under this deal in 2024.

Authors who currently have an article in the pipeline at T&F have several options:

• If the CC license has already been signed and the article has already been submitted to the corresponding author's university library for an affiliation check, it will still be published under the deal.
• If the article has been accepted but the author has not yet signed a CC license, it is no longer covered by the deal. T&F will contact the author to discuss options. The author can decide to pay the Article Processing Charge themselves or publish the article in closed access instead. In that case, the article can still be made public after 6 months via the author's institutional repository, under the Taverne arrangement following article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act. Please note that the specific procedures for implementing this may vary between universities and UMCs. Also note that the Taverne route is not Plan S-compliant and hence not suited for research output funded by NWO, ERC and other CoalitionS funders.
• If the article is still under review, it is good to know that there will be another deal with T&F in 2025, which means that articles approved after 1 January 2025 will once again be eligible for a 100% discount on the APC.

For more information about the Taverne scheme, the open access agreement with T&F, the Open Access policy of research funders, or other related topics, please contact your university library for guidance and support.