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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
  • Czech Agrifood Research Center
  • Czech Geological Survey
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
  • Global Change Research Centre of the CAS – all tokens allocated for 2026 have already been used by the institution
  • 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 Experimental Botany of the CAS
  • Institute of Geonics of the CAS
  • Institute of Geophysics of the CAS
  • Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion
  • Institute of Hydrology 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 – all tokens allocated for 2026 have already been used by the institution
  • Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS – all tokens allocated for 2026 have already been used by the institution
  • 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
  • Silesian University in Opava
  • St. Anne's University Hospital Brno
  • Landscape Research Institute
  • 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 Hradec Králové
  • 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 (excluding BioMed Central, Springer Open and Scientific Reports or Nature Communications titles)

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

Contract duration: 1. 1. 2026 - 31. 12. 2028

For a list of member institutions, titles available for publication and detailed information for authors, visit Springer Nature.
Once your article has been accepted for publication, we recommend contacting your library to inquire about the possibility of using tokens. The number of tokens available to 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 parameters:
      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 publishing agreement is compoleted
    2. If the author’s institution is a member of the consortium and the article type is listed as eligible, as well as if the journal is included among the eligible titles, the author will see information about the transformative agreement.
    3. The system is set to Open Access by default. The author cannot opt out independently; if Open Access is not desired, the opt-out must be performed by the author’s institution via the OA administrator.. The author cannot independently decide to opt out of Open Access publishing. If the author does not wish to publish the article Open Access, the opt-out must be carried out by the author’s institution (via the OA administrator).
    4. In the next step, “Publishing and Rights,” the author can select the “Submit for approval” option if publishing Open Access.
    5. The author must then sign the "Licence to Publish".
  2. Once approved for OA token use by the member institution administrator, the article will be published Open Access.
  3. If rejected, the author can either pay the publication fee personally or publish the article behind a paywall.

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