Publish free of charge in 374 Emerald full open access and hybrid journals. Note: capped deal!
License and conditions
- All Dutch universities (including University Medical Centers) are part of this agreement.
- Emerald has a maximum amount of vouchers available annually for free of charge open access. This maximum amount is 101 articles per year. When the annual maximum has been reached, a message will be displayed here.
- University affiliated (teaching and research staff, students employed/enrolled/otherwise accredited) corresponding authors can publish open access free of charge in some hybrid and all full open access journals.
- Publication types that are part of the agreement: original articles, review articles.
- Currently, 345 Emerald journals across 13 subject-oriented collections are available for Open Access (OA) publishing, along with 29 newly included ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers) publications. Among these, 56 titles are fully OA, while 348 follow a hybrid OA model. Researchers can publish for free only in journals that are part of the collections subscribed to by their respective universities.
- Use the Open Access Journal Browser to find out if a specific journal is part of the agreement for your university.
How does it work?
- At submission, use your institutional email address and select the correct institutional affiliation.
- Upon submission corresponding authors are required to indicate that they want to make their article open access via a mandatory yes/no question.
- See for more information Emerald's support page about 'Open Access publishing agreements'.
Emerald's Open Access publishing agreements page.
For more info, please download the flyer: 'OA Voucher Leaflet'.
This contract discloses the 'Publish and Read Agreement SURF and Emerald 2025-2027'.