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Emerald Publishing Group 2025-2027

Publish free of charge in 374 Emerald full open access and hybrid journals. Note: capped deal!


 

Licence data

Publisher: Emerald Publishing group
Deal duration: 2025-2027
Status licence:
Current

 

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'.