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

  • Astronomical Institute of the CAS
  • Brno University of Technology
  • Bulovka University Hospital
  • Charles University
  • Crop Research Institute
  • Czech Geological Survey
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
  • Forestry and Game Management Research Institute
  • Global Change Research Centre of the CAS
  • Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine
  • Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information
  • Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics of the CAS
  • Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the CAS
  • Institute of Biophysics of the CAS
  • Institute of Botany of the CAS
  • Institute of Computer Science of the CAS
  • Institute of Geonics of the CAS
  • Institute of Geophysics of the CAS
  • Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion
  • Institute of Hydrodynamics of the CAS
  • Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the CAS
  • Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the CAS
  • Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the CAS
  • Institute of Mathematics of the CAS
  • Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS
  • Institute of Physics of Materials of the CAS
  • Institute of Physics of the CAS
  • Institute of Physiology of the CAS
  • Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS
  • Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the CAS
  • Institute of Thermomechanics of the CAS
  • Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the CAS
  • J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS
  • Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem
  • Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute
  • Masaryk University
  • Mendel University in Brno
  • National Institute of Public Health
  • National Library of Technology
  • National Library of the Czech Republic
  • Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS
  • Palacky University Olomouc
  • Research Library in Hradec Králové
  • Silesian University in Opava
  • Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening (from 1. 1. 2025)
  • Technical University of Liberec
  • The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC (only facility Dolní Břežany, CZ)
  • Tomas Bata University in Zlín
  • Transport Research Centre
  • University Hospital in Ostrava
  • University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
  • University of Defence
  • University of Ostrava
  • University of Pardubice
  • University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
  • University of Veterinary Sciences Brno
  • University of West Bohemia
  • Veterinary Research Institute
  • VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

Eligible journals: hybrid titles (i.e. does not include BioMed Central, Springer Open and Scientific Reports or Nature Communications titles)

Publication type: Original Paper (Original Research, Original Article, Original Paper or Research Paper), Review Paper, Brief Communication, Continuing Education

Contract duration: 1 January 2023 - 31 December 2025

For a list of member institutions, a list of titles available for publication, and detailed information for authors, see Springer Nature.
After acceptance of an article for publication, we recommend contacting your library and enquiring about the possibility of using tokens (the number of tokens for each institution is limited).

How does an author publish an Open Access article?

  1. After an article is accepted for publication, the author is asked by the publisher to sign a “publishing agreement”.
    1. The publisher’s system recognizes the author’s affiliation based on three informations:
      1. institutional e-mail domain in the contact details;
      2. the affiliation selected by the author (the most important parameter);
      3. the IP address from which he/she fills out the “publishing agreement.”
    2. If the author’s institution is a member institution of the consortium, the article type is in the list of eligible types and the journal is in the list of eligible titles, then the author will see information about the transformative agreement.
    3. At this point, the author can decide whether to continue publishing OA, or choose No, I want to publish my article without open access.
    4. In the next step, Publishing and rights, he/she will be able to select the Submit for approval option if he/she is publishing OA.
    5. The author must then sign the Licence to Publish.
  2. Once an article is approved for OA token usage by the member institution administrator, the article is published in OA mode.
  3. In case of rejection of an article by the OA administrator of a member institution, the author has the option to pay the publication fee him/herself or to choose to publish the article in the standard mode (the article will be behind a paywall).

Detailed Instructions from the Publisher:
Step-by-step instructions in the detailed Springer Nature guide.