The gold way of open access is based on publishing in open access peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Open access to scientific publications is provided by the publisher.
The content of open access journals is completely open. To cover the costs of publishing an article in an open access journal, the publisher usually requires the author to pay an Article Processing Charges (APC).
Traditional journals, whose content is available on a subscription basis, also offer open access publishing. In this case, these are so-called hybrid journals. These provide open access only to articles for which the author has paid the APC fee. The rest of their content is only available to subscribers.
Suitable open access journal to publish your article you can find in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
- only for corresponding authors with UPCE affiliation
- corresponding authors must use a university e-mail address (name.surname@upce.cz)
- only for selected publishers and journals, see the overview below:
| Consortium (publisher) | Publications without APC (number of vouchers for free publications) | Tokens currently used/tokens left | Lists of eligible journals |
| IoP | no limitations | no limitations | Gold OA and hybrid journals (with following exceptions) |
| RSC | no limitations | no limitations | Gold OA and hybrid journals |
| ACS | no limitations | no limitations | Gold OA and hybrid journals |
| Springer | 9 tokens | 7/2 | hybrid journals (does not include BioMed Central, Springer Open, Scientific Reports, Nature Communications) |
| Wiley | 22 tokens | 5/17 | hybrid journals |
Please see the attached document for full details and criteria for the allocation of OA tokens.
| Files for download | Size |
|---|---|
| Criteria for allocating OA tokens at UPCE - pdf | 321 kB |
| List of eligible journals (version 4, 11. 9. 2023) - soubor | 11.51 MB |
