Participating institutes(including University Medical Centers)in this agreementare 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 approximately 250 hybrid journalsof Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (LWW).
The agreement applies to the following types of publications: original articles, review articles, case reports.
NB. The agreement applies to a maximum number of open access publications per year: 270 in 2024, 273 in 2025 and 276 in 2026. When approaching the maximum, an announcement will appear here.
WARNING: We expect that early October 2024 the consortium article quota for 2024 with Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) will be reached. From that moment on submitting authors have to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) to make their article Open Access via the publisher. Alternative routes may be the Taverne route or the Rights Retention Strategy, please contact the OA representative of your university for conditions and workflow.
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 aCCBY license by LWW.