Agreements with publishers

Leiden University's researchers can make use of Read & Publish agreements with a substantial number of publishers. These agreements do not only offer read-access to a wide array of high-quality subscription journals, but also cover up to 100% of the article charges for publishing in open access.

Journal Browser: your per-journal guide to Open Access

Read & Publish agreements are arranged per publisher, for portfolios of journals. The Journal Browser shows the open access options per journal, and can be used to check if a journal is covered by an agreement. This database contains information on all national and local agreements that cover up to 100% of Article Processing Charges for publishing in open access. 

Search journals by keyword, and use the filters (left-hand menu), to only see those journals for which no additional costs are charged to Leiden authors. Please note that the Journal Browser is regularly updated, but also the result of work in progress. No rights may be derived from information on the website.

How to enroll?

To ensure participation:

• Use your Leiden affliation: correspond with your Leiden University / LUMC email address
• When asked, make sure you indicate that you DO want to publish Open Access
• When in doubt about workflow, charges or anything else, ask for help at openaccess@library.leidenuniv.nl

Overview of publishers with a Read & Publish agreement in place

The alphabetical list below presents all publishers with which Leiden University has a Read & Publish agreement in place. Some agreements have specific conditions, like a 'cap': coverage of a maximum number of articles per year. Please consult our webpage about caps for more information. 

Unless specified otherwise, links in the list below direct to openaccess.nl, which offers detailed information about the designated agreement.  

• American Chemical Society (ACS): This is a 'capped' agreement; we do not expect the cap for 2026 will be reached. 
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• American Institute of Physics Publishing (AIPP): Information on the agreement with AIPP in this short summary.
• Benjamins: Information on this agreement in our short summary, or on Benjamins' website.
• Cambridge University Press: This is a 'capped' agreement; we do not expect the cap for 2026 will be reached. 
• Cogitatio Press: Information on this agreement in our short summary, or on Cogitatio Press' website.
• The Company of Biologists
• De Gruyter Brill
• Elsevier
• Emerald: This is a 'capped' agreement; we expect the cap for 2026 to be reached at the beginning of October.
• IOP Publishing
• IOS Press
• Karger
• Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW): This is a 'capped' agreement; we expect the cap for 2026 to be reached mid-October. 
• Oxford University Press: This agreement contains two 'caps'. The cap for hybrid journals has been reached on 13 September 2026; the cap for full-OA journals is expected by mid-November.
• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
• Sage
• Springer Nature: This is a 'capped' agreement; the cap has been reached on 14 October 2026. 
• Taylor & Francis: This is a 'capped' agreement; we expect the cap for 2026 to be reached mid-November. 
• Thieme: This is a 'capped' agreement; we do not expect the cap for 2026 will be reached. 
• Wiley
   

Please contact the University Library's open access team with any further questions: openaccess@library.leidenuniv.nl

Supporting open access initiatives

Leiden University Libraries also support other initiatives which advance open access worldwide. Some of these initiatives facilitate the infrastructures behind the open ecosystems; others are focused on making open access publishing possible via other routes than a Read & Publish deal. Below a list of the open access initiatives and infrastructures currently supported by Leiden University Libraries:

• arXiv.org - arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive (preprint server) for scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
• Directory of Open Access Books / OAPEN - DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers and OAPEN is a global digital library for hosting and disseminating scholarly OA books
• Directory of Open Access Journals – Listing of journals which publish all articles in open access
• DOI – Supporting the Digitial Object Identifier (DOI) system to generate DOIs
• IIIF - The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale which Leiden University Libraries use for their digital objects where possible.
• Leiden Journal Browser – Lists all journals which are covered by agreements with publishers and Leiden University.
• MIT Press Direct to Open – Supporting the publishing in diamond open access (without costs for the author) of digital monographs from the MIT Press.
• Moesson – journal for the Indo community in the Netherlands
• OpenAire – OpenAire connects the global research community through Open Science infrastructure and services. Including the Netherlands Research Portal.
• Open Library of Humanities – OLH publishes 39 diamond open access journals in the humanities.
• ORCID – The Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a free, unique, persistent identifier for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. Leiden University recommends all researchers to use their ORCID in their publications.
• PhilPapers - PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers which also hosts the largest open access archive (preprint server) in philosophy.
• PsyArXiv – PsyArXiv is a free archive of preprints, working manuscripts, and postprints (preprint server) in the psychological sciences.
• SciPost - SciPost is an online scientific publication portal which provides free, open, global and perpetual access to science via its journals in the fields of physics, chemistry, astronomy, political science and social and behavior change.
• SCOAP3 - SCOAP3 funds the Open Access publication of high-energy physics articles in its supported journals.
• Sidestone Press Library Program – academic publisher in archaeology and anthropology