About CzechELib

Mission

The CzechELib National Centre ensures the purchase of key electronic resources for the entire research and education community in the Czech Republic, takes care of their management, including usage statistics, and supports open access publishing.

A more detailed description of our services to member institutions

Legal status

The National Centre is part of the National Library of Technology (NTK)

Funding & projects

Establishment (2017-2022) was supported by the European Operational Programme Research, Development, Education.

Since 2023, the National Center CzechELib is fully integrated into the project of the National Center for Information Support of Research, Development, and Innovation, which is implemented with the support of the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports.

CzechELib in numbers (as of 2024):

• 129 member institutions
• Contracts with 59 publishers
• 14 Read & Publish transformative agreements covering approximately 1,800 articles

Expert Council

Jiří Jirát, Chairman / National Technical Library
Lenka Maixnerova, Vice-Chair / National Library
Miroslav Bartošek / Masaryk University
Radek Cibulka / University of Chemical Technology in Prague
Tomáš Kostelecký / Institute of Sociology of the CAS
Libor Krásný / Institute of Microbiology of the CAS
Jiří Polách / Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS
Václav Šubrta / University of Economics in Prague
Magdaléna Vecková / Library of the CAS

CzechELib project history

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