Taylor & Francis and Springer Nature’s fully open access quota for this year has been exhausted at EISz

Taylor & Francis and Springer Nature’s fully open access quota for this year has been exhausted at EISz

According to information from EISz, the nationally guaranteed open access publication quotas for 2025 under read & publish agreements with Taylor & Francis and Springer Nature have been exhausted.

At Taylor & Francis, articles published in hybrid journals can only be published with restricted access without paying APC; if you wish to publish with open access, you can apply for APC payment through the university’s workflow online application system.

At Springer Nature, the fully OA quota has been exhausted, but it is still possible to publish in hybrid journals using the EISz quota.

In the case of articles received in excess of the quota

• • with the quota exhausted, eligibility has expired, meaning that authors are no longer able to choose OA publication covered by the EISz agreement this year; the publisher’s system has disabled the recognition of EISz eligibility for authors affiliated with Hungarian institutions;
  • the Publisher will reject all pending (Open) articles and inform the authors of the reason for the rejection (lack of available APCs/funding);
  • Applications approved in the meantime above the accepted threshold will be suspended by the publisher’s production team, the articles will be reset to their default status and returned to the authors with an automatic email, after which the authors will also receive an informative email explaining the reason for the rejection. We do not yet have information on exactly which articles are affected; following notification from the publisher, we will also inform the institutions concerned about these articles.

If you still wish to publish an article that has been rejected for the above reason with open access, you can apply for APC payment through the university’s workflow online application system.

 The quotas will reopen in 2026.