Open Access: Discounts for CU authors

Open Access: Discounts for CU authors

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

  • Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to take advantage of the complete waiver of the Open Access publication fee (APC).
  • To use this opportunity, the corresponding author must use the institutional e-mail already when submitting the manuscript and choose Charles University as affiliation.

 

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

  • Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to take advantage of the complete waiver of the Open Access publication fee (APC).
  • To use this opportunity, the corresponding author must use the institutional e-mail already when submitting the manuscript and choose Charles University as affiliation.

 

IOPscience

  • Part of the subscription to the IOPscience e-resources within the national consortium coordinated by the CzechELib project for the years 2023-25 is the right of corresponding authors from Charles University to a full waiver of open access publication fees in all titles (hybrid and Gold OA) with a few exceptions (list of excluded journals).
  • When a corresponding author submits an article to an IOP journal, they are asked to indicate their institutional affiliation. If affiliated with a member institution listed above, the IOP will identify the article as eligible for Open Access publication and send an email to the corresponding author.
  • Corresponding authors will be contacted by the publisher to confirm that they wish to publish their article in Open Access mode near the time of article acceptance.

 

Karger Publishers

  • The subscription to the Karger Journals within the national consortium coordinated by CzechELib for 2023-25 includes the entitlement of correspondent authors from Charles University to fully waive open access publishing fees (APC and Authors Choice) for publishing in both Full Open Access and Hybrid journals (titles with “Author’s ChoiceTM” service) by Karger Publishers. 
  • To qualify for free OA publishing, select “Eligible” in the publisher’s publishing system under the section Open Access Agreements > Eligibility Declaration and specify the name of the institution (Charles University).
  • It is also necessary to prove the affiliation of the correspondent author with Charles University by one of 3 possibilities:

    • Providing an e-mail of a corresponding author from the cuni.cz domain (ie a working e-mail) 

    • Providing a persistent identifier (eg ORCID) where the author has affiliation with Charles University in the profile, in the article metadata 

    • Showing affiliation to Charles University in article metadata 

 

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)

  • Part of the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins High Impact Collection e-resource subscription within the CzechELib project for the year 2023-25 is the right to waive a total of 5 open access publication fees (APCs) for the publication of articles by corresponding authors from the medical faculties of Charles University (2. LF, 3. LF , LFHK, LFP) in fully open and hybrid Lippincott Williams & Wilkins/Wolters Kluwer Health journals.
  • If you have an article accepted for publication in one of the LWW journals and would like to use a voucher to cover the costs associated with the open access fee, please contact the Open Science Support Center.

 

Oxford University Press (OUP)

  • Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to use the full waiver of the Open Access publication fee (APC).

  • Eligible journals: fully OA titles and hybrid titles, with the following exceptions (the journals listed below are not eligible):

    • Astronomy & Geophysics
    • Children & Schools
    • Critical Values
    • European Heart Journal Supplements
    • Health and Social Work
    • Holocaust And Genocide Studies
    • Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
    • Itnow
    • JNCI Monographs
    • Journal of American History
    • Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
    • Journal Of The ICRU
    • Music Theory Spectrum
    • OAH Magazine of History
    • Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
    • Reports of Patent, Design and Trade Mark Cases
    • Shakespeare Quarterly
    • Social Work
    • Social Work Research
    • The American Historical Review
    • The Library
    • The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
    • The Year’s Work in English Studies
    • Translational Animal Science
    • Western Historical Quarterly

  • To use the token, the corresponding author must use an institutional email and choose the correct affiliation.

 

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

  • Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to benefit from a full waiver of the APC publication fee in hybrid and fully open journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
  • The discount will be automatically added when the author's affiliation to the institution is recognized through the institutional e-mail address (domain: cuni.cz).

 

SAGE

  • Discount £200 on APC for Open Access publishing on hybrid titles in Sage subscription collections and 20% off APC on most OA titles. APC is paid outside the CzechELib contracts.
  • Corresponding author should use their institution's email (not e.g. gmail.com - then correct identification cannot be guaranteed).

 

SCOAP

  • SCOAP3 is an international consortium of libraries and research centers in the field of particle physics operating under the auspices of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Thanks to the involvement of Charles University, CU authors can publish articles in the field of particle physics in selected scientific peer-reviewed journals free of charge. 
  • All SCOAP3-funded articles are made available on the publishers' platforms and in the SCOAP3 repository after publication. 

 

Springer Nature

  • Corresponding authors of the UK have the opportunity to use the full waiver of the OA publication fee in hybrid titles (Springer, Adis, Palgrave and Academic journals on Nature.com).
  • Charles University has allocated a total of 91 of these tokens for its authors for the year 2023.
  • In order to use the token, it is necessary to correctly indicate the affiliation and use the institutional e-mail address.

 

Taylor & Francis

  • Corresponding authors of Charles University can take advantage of the complete waiver of the open access publication fee in hybrid Open Select Journals published by Taylor & Francis.
  • In 2023, Charles University can use a total of 38 tokens to waive the payment of the publication fee.
  • The corresponding author's right to use the voucher to cover the open access publication fee is recognized on the basis of affiliation to the institution, e-mail from the cuni.cz domain or ORCID identifier.

 

Wiley

  • Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to take advantage of the full waiver of the APC publication fee in Wiley's hybrid journals.
  • Charles University has allocated a total of 117 of these tokens for its authors for the year 2023.
  • In order to use the token, it is necessary to correctly indicate the affiliation and use the institutional e-mail address.

 

MDPI: As of November 30, 2022, Charles University ended its membership in the Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), so CU authors are no longer entitled to the discount that this membership brought.

3. 2. 2023
Martin Simota