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Springer Nature open access deal: the national annual quota for 2024 has been reached. This means that from that moment the deal will be suspended and UG/UMCG articles will no longer be eligible for the usual 100% discount on the open access fee.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) open access deal: the national annual quota for 2024 is expected to be reached in mid-October.

Following the theme of this year's International Open Access Week "Community over commercialization," the University of Groningen Library (UB) is highlighting community-driven publishing alternatives, so-called diamond open access (OA) initiatives. Want to learn more about diamond OA and how we support it? Meet our experts Giulia Trentacosti and Margreet Nieborg.

The article in the spotlight for the month of September 2024 is titled The effectiveness and efficacy of driving interventions with ADHD: a Dutch perspective, written by Roy Noordhuis, Anselm Fuermaier and Dick de Waard (all connected to the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences).

The article in the spotlight for the month of June 2024 is titled A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It, written by Alexander Martin (assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts), David Adger (Queen Mary University of London, Klaus Abels (University College London), Patrick Kanampiu and Jennifer Culbertson (both from the University of Edinburgh).

In 2023, 97% of UG/UMCG peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings were open access - including gold (30%), hybrid (41%) and green (26%) open access. The share of open access publications remained stable from 2021 and 2022, but rose significantly compared to previous years (69% in 2020, 64% in 2019, 55% in 2018, 51% in 2017 and 37% in 2016).

How can authors recognise and avoid these journals? What can authors do if they have published with a questionable or predatory publisher? Open access specialists at universities across the Netherlands have written a guide that provides insight and practical advice for authors.

The article in the spotlight for the month of February 2024 is titled The algorithmic network imaginary: How music artists understand and experience their algorithmically constructed networks, written by Robert Prey and Marc Esteve Del Valle (Faculty of Arts).

The UG has signed a new Read & Publish agreement with the European Respiratory Journal. In addition, several existing agreements have been renewed. Through these agreements UG researchers get reading access to scientific journals, as well as the right to publish open access at no extra cost.

Article in the spotlight for January 2024