The MENDELU Library is a member of the National Centre for Electronic Information Resources CzechELib | VIDEO about Open Access CzechELib. Some publishers have concluded new contracts for access to their journals, where vouchers for publishing in the Open Access journals of these publishers are also part of this contract. If the voucher is used, the author does not pay the fee for Open Access publishing (APC = Article Processing Charge).
MENDELU has discounts (vouchers) available for 2025 for publishing in Open Access with the following publishers: American Chemical Society, De Gruyter, Taylor and Francis, Wiley, Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press and Royal Society of Chemistry.
- Discount applies to hybrid journals (partially Open Access journal: journal allows you to publish articles as part of a subscription, but also offers to publish some articles in Open Access for a fee.)
- the corresponding author must be affiliated with Mendel University in Brno.
- journal must be listed in the list of the journals eligible for discount! (version 5, 15.3.2024), use filter for Mendel university and a publisher.
- If you are not sure whether the university still has vouchers available, write to us at open-science@mendelu.cz
- After the peer review process, the publisher will contact you and send you a link to their system by e-mail.
- In the system, select Open Access publishing and Institutional Agreement: Mendel University in Brno.
- The Open Science Center will automatically receive a request and approve/disapprove your discount based on the number of remaining vouchers.
- Once approved, the Article Processing Charge (APC) will be zero, you will pay nothing.
- If the Open Science centrum does not approve the discount, you will pay the APC from your department funds, or it is possible to choose to publish under the subscription (the article won´t be Open Access).
- American Chemical Society (ACS);
- Cambridge University Press;
- Royal Society of Chemistry.
Possibility of free publishing in all subscribed journals (hybrid and Gold OA journals).
| Publisher | Number of vouchers for MENDELU authors for 2025 / current number of vouchers |
Information for authors |
Notes |
| De Gruyter | 1/1 | Information for authors | Free of charge publishing of a limited number of articles in all journals (hybrid and Gold OA journals). |
| Taylor & Francis | 5/4 | How to publish | Can be applied only to hybrid journals in Open Select. |
| Wiley | 15/14 | Free of charge publishing of limited number of articles in hybrid journals. | |
| Springer Nature | 15/15 | Vouchers can only be used for hybrid journals in Open Select. Vouchers can only be used for hybrid journals (Springer, Palgrave&Adis in SpringerLink; Academic journals in Nature.com). Cannot be applied to journals from the BioMed Central portfolio, Nature Communications, Springer Open and the journal Scientific Reports. | |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | unlimited | Since April 2023 also Gold Open Access journals (full Open Access journals e.g. ACS Omega or Au journals) are covered. | |
| Cambridge University Press | unlimited | How to publish (CzechELib) | |
| Royal Society of Chemistry |
unlimited | How to publish (CzechELib) |
Informative list of journals with the option of free Open Access publishing (version 5, 15.3.2024), use filter Mendel university and a publisher.
When publishing in Open Access, choosing a Creative Commons license is part of the Author Publishing Agreement. We recommend authors to choose the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY license, in accordance with the requirements of some projects and with Plan S.
open-science@mendelu.cz: Mgr. Naděžda Fasurová, Ph.D.; Mgr. Martina Šmardová