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Free and unlimited publishing of Open Access articles (hereinafter “OA”) for corresponding authors from institutions that are members of the CzechELib consortium:

  • Charles University
  • Institute of Physiology of the CAS
  • Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem
  • Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Masaryk University
  • National Library of Technology
  • National Museum
  • Palacky University Olomouc
  • University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
  • University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice

Eligible journals: fully OA titles and hybrid titles, with the following exceptions (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


Publication type: research article, review article, brief report, case report.

Contract duration: 1 January 2023 - 31 December 2025

How does an author publish an Open Access article?

When submitting a manuscript, a corresponding author (hereinafter “author”) must use the institutional e-mail address (domains are listed as part of the transformative agreement: fgu.cas.cz; jcu.cz; knav.cz, lib.cas.cz; muni.cz; nm.cz; techlib.cz; ujep.cz; cuni.cz; upol.cz; vscht.cz. The system should also correctly recognize subdomains).

After a manuscript has been successfully reviewed and accepted for publication:

  • It is handed over to the production team and given a unique ID.
  • The author receives a welcome e-mail containing a unique link to the licensing and payment system (Author Services).
  • If the institution identifier (Ringgold ID) matches one of the eligible institutions (see above), the author receives a second e-mail, with instructions on how to take advantage of the free Open Access publishing option in the transformative agreement.
  • After Open Access is requested, an institution’s OA administrator has 7 days to approve the request (due to unlimited usage, exhaustion of the limit cannot be a reason for refusal, but another circumstance can - e.g. you are no longer a member of the institution). Please note: if an OA request is denied by an institutional administrator, the author must pay the APC!