All teaching and research staff affiliated with the institution, as well as students enrolled at the time of acceptance of your publication, are eligible authors. In the case of articles published by multiple authors, the author who signs the publishing agreement will be considered the eligible author.

Please note that authors are only eligible once they have agreed to the open access publishing agreement, which is current at the time. Currently, this agreement refers to the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0. The corresponding author shall be the author who signs the publishing agreement.

Which article types are included in the agreement?

• Original Paper – Standard articles, usually presenting new results; articles published under this article type may also be referred to as original research, original articles, original papers or research papers
• Review Paper – An article that interprets previously published results
• Brief Communication – Short article submitted for rapid publication that exhibits the same structure as a standard article
• Continuing Education – Article forming an integral part of further education (usually medical)
• Case Reports – Articles in medical journals

Follow this step by step guide to make your article open access at no cost to you:

• Step 1. Choose a journal in which you would like to publish your research paper.
• Step 2. Submit your article. Instructions on how to submit are specified on each journal webpage under the "Submit" tab.
• Step 3. Don’t forget to submit your article using your affiliated institutional e-mail address.
• Step 4. If your article is accepted, we automatically check if an open access agreement applies.
• Step 5. If an article is eligible and the article processing charges (APCs) are covered by your institution, your article will be published in open access under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 at no cost to you.
• Step 6. If the APCs are not covered by the institution, you will get the opportunity to publish in open access at a full or discounted APCs.
• Step 7. Some journals may ask if you wish to publish open access at the point of submission and will check if the APCs would be covered by the institution. This step is for advice only as most agreements apply to the date of acceptance.

For any questions, please contact Łukasz Gworek: Lukasz.Gworek@degruyter.com

Most communication about national Open Access deals in the Netherlands with publishers, including Walter de Gruyter, are now channelled and communicated through openaccess.nl, the national website of open access in the Netherlands.