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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:

  • Brno University of Technology
  • Charles University
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • Masaryk University
  • National Library of Technology
  • Prague University of Economics and Business
  • University of Hradec Králové
  • University of West Bohemia
  • VSB - Technical University of Ostrava


Publication type: ll articles in the ACM Digital Library designated as “research articles” at the time of publication by ACM, i.e. research articles, review articles, conference papers or proceedings papers, and other types of articles for which ACM would also require payment of an APC in the absence of a transformative agreement.

Duration of agreement: 1 January 2023 - 31 December 2025


How does an author publish an Open Access article?

When submitting a manuscript, the corresponding author must use his/her institutional e-mail address.

In the e-mail notifying of the acceptance of an article, the author receives a link to the system (eRights), where he/she confirms the authors’ details and proceeds to article license selection:

  • The system should automatically recognise permission for free “Gold Open Access” publishing and offer this option to the author.
  • For OA publishing, it is necessary to choose the “Institutionally Paid Open Access” option (this option means that everything is already paid for under the transformative agreement and no additional costs are incurred) and then we recommend choosing a CC-BY license (the default option).

Detailed instructions from the publisher:

Step-by-step instructions in the detailed ACM guide.