Participating institutes (including University Medical Centers)in this agreement are Utrecht University (UU), Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), University of Groningen (RUG), Leiden University (UL), VU Amsterdam (VU), University of Amsterdam (UvA), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and Maastricht University (UM)
Corresponding authors of these institutes (teaching and research staff, students employed/enrolled/otherwise accredited) can publish open access free of charge in more than 300 of Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (LWW).
Publication types that are part of the agreement: original articles, review articles, case reports.
Please note that there is a maximum of 300 open access publications per year for this agreement. When the maximum is about to be reached, a notification will be placed here.
Renewal of the open access publishing agreement for 2024 is in the final stage of negotiation. In the meantime corresponding authors can continue publishing their article open access without additional costs.
How does it work?
On submission, use your institutional email address and select the correct institutional affiliation; LWW will use this information on acceptance of the publication to check eligibility for open access without any costs.
Your publication will be published open access with a CC BY license by LWW.