Open Access Journal Articles

(Last updated: 3 June 2026)

This page is about publishing your journal article Open Access in a John Benjamins journal. There is a separate page with information about OA (articles in) books.

Open Access through an agreement with your institution

Corresponding authors from institutions with which we have a 'Read & Publish' agreement can publish Open Access in our journals without paying a fee. This list of Read & Publish deals shows all institutions with current agreements, and the conditions that were agreed with that institution. Please check carefully what those conditions are, as articles that do not match the conditions of the specific agreement, will fall outside of its scope.

All journal articles that enter our production workflow — after acceptance by the journal — are automatically checked to see if the institution of the corresponding author is participating in a Read & Publish arrangement with us, and if the article was submitted to the journal after the start of that arrangement. If so, we will automatically arrange for Open Access publication. The author(s) will see this in the proofs of the article, where Open Access information will be added in the footer and the funding section.

Please make sure that the information on the corresponding author and their affiliation(s) is correct when submitting the final version of the manuscript for production. After publication, it is not possible to change the corresponding author in order to make the article fall under an agreement retrospectively.

By default we apply the CC BY license; at the request of the author, another license can be considered.

Open Access through payment of a fee

If you want or need to make the Version of Record of your article available through Open Access because of funder requirements, and your institution does not have an agreement with us (see above), this can be arranged through payment of a fee (Article Publication Charge, APC). The Version of Record is the version as prepared and published by the publisher on the basis of the final version of your manuscript (the 'Author Accepted Manuscript').

The article publication charge is EUR 1800 (+ VAT/tax if applicable). For articles that were published more than 12 months ago, a 50% discount applies. Please note that we are obliged to add 21% VAT if the invoice is made out to a private person, to a company/institution within the Netherlands, or to a company/institution within the EU that does not provide us with a VAT ID number.

We prefer to use the CC BY-NC license, but it is also possible to use the CC BY license (or other) if that is preferred by the author, or mandated by their institution/funder.

Please contact us about Open Access as soon as your article has been accepted for publication by the journal editors. Email to openaccessbenjamins.nl, providing information on the article (title, authors, journal), the preferred license (CC BY, CC BY-NC or other), and the address to be used on the invoice (with VAT ID if applicable).

Diamond OA

We currently have one journal that is fully Open Access through sponsoring by a society, and does not require any payments from authors or institutions: Language and Linguistics .

Green OA/self-archiving

For information about our policy on 'green' Open Access through Institutional Repositories, please consult our Rights Information page.