American Chemical Society (ACS)

• Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to take advantage of the complete waiver of the Open Access publication fee (APC) in hybrid and pure OA journals (i.e. ACS Omega or Au journals).

• To use this opportunity, the corresponding author must choose Charles University as affiliation, and is strongly advised to use an institutional e-mail address.

• More information can be found on the CzechELib website.

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

• Corresponding authors of MFF UK have the opportunity to take advantage of the complete waiver of the Open Access publication fee (APC) in the following hybrid journals:

  • American Journal of Physics

  • Applied Physics Letters

  • Biointerphases

  • Chaos

  • Journal of Applied Physics

  • Journal of Mathematical Physics

  • Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data

  • Journal of Rheology

  • Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A

  • Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B

  • Physics of Fluids

  • Physics of Plasmas

  • Review of Scientific Instruments

  • Surface Science Spectra

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics

  • The Physics Teacher

• In 2026, Charles University can use a total of 32 tokens to waive the payment of the publication fee.

• This opportunity can only be used for the following types of publications: Brief Communication, Communication, Conference Article, Fast Track or Article-FT, Letter, Note, Perspective, Article, Research Update, Review, Roadmap, Tutorial.

• To use this token, the corresponding author must choose Charles University as affiliation and choose the option "Open Access as part of an Institutional agreement" in the Publication Charges and Funding step during submission.

• More information can be found on the CzechELib website.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to take advantage of the complete waiver of the Open Access publication fee (APC) in all journals.

• This option can only be used in selected types of publications: research articles, review articles, conference papers or proceedings papers and other types of articles for which ACM would also require payment of the APC fee in the case of an unconcluded transformation agreement.

• More information can be found on the CzechELib website.

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

• Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to take advantage of the complete waiver of the Open Access publication fee (APC) in all journals.

• This option can be used only for following types of publications: research article, review, brief report, case report and rapid communications article.

• More information can be found on the CzechELib website.

Elsevier

• Corresponding authors of Charles University are eligible for a full waiver of the Open Access Article Processing Charge (APC) in Core Hybrid journals (i.e. does not include Gold titles and Cell Press).

• This option is available only for selected publication types: Case Report, Data in Brief, Full-length Article, Microarticle, Original Software Publication, Protocol, Review Article, Replication Study, Short Communication, Short Survey.

• In 2026, Charles University can use a total of 148 tokens to waive the payment of the publication fee.

•  More information can be found on the CzechElib website.

IOPscience

• Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to use the full waiver of the Open Access publication fee (APC) in all journals with a few exceptions (list of excluded journals).

• This option can be used only for selected types of publications: paper, special issue paper, review and/or letter.

• More information can be found on the CzechELib website.

Karger Publishers

• Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to use the full waiver of the Open Access publication fee (APC) in all journals.

• This option can only be used for selected types of publications: Original Paper, Review, Brief Communication, Correction.

• More information can be found on the CzechELib website.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)

• For the period 2026 - 2028, the number of full waivers of publication fees in Lippincott Williams & Wilkins/Wolters Kluwer Health hybrid journals for corresponding authors from Charles University faculties that pay for subscriptions (3. LF, LFHK, LFP) will be extremely limited.

• Across the entire consortium, comprising Charles University, Masaryk University, and Palacký University in Olomouc, only five tokens will be available for the 2026 - 2028 period. The National Center for EIZ (CzechELib) has decided that the allocation of full publication fee waivers will be managed directly using “first come, first served” method.

• More information can be found on the CzechELib website. 

Oxford University Press (OUP)

• Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to use the full waiver of the Open Access publication fee (APC) in all journals with the following exceptions (the following journals 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

• This option can be used only for following types of publications: research article, review article, brief report, case report.

• More information can be found on the CzechELib website.

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

• Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to benefit from a full waiver of the APC publication fee in hybrid and fully open journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

• More information can be found on the CzechELib website.

SAGE

• Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to benefit from a full waiver of the APC publication fee or a 20% APC publication fee discount, depending on the journal type:

  • Hybrid journals included in the subscribed SAGE HSS Package allow for a full waiver of the APC publication fee.

  • Fully open access journals offer a 20% discount on the APC publication fee (full APC waiver is not available in fully open access journals).

• If you have any questions about whether a SAGE journal is hybrid or fully open access, please do not hesitate to contact us at  . 

• More information can be found on the CzechELib websitewebsite.

SCOAP

• SCOAP3 is an international consortium of libraries and research centers in the field of particle physics operating under the auspices of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Thanks to the involvement of Charles University, CU authors can publish articles in the field of particle physics in selected scientific peer-reviewed journals free of charge. 

• All SCOAP3-funded articles are made available on the publishers' platforms and in the SCOAP3 repository after publication. 

Springer Nature

• Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to benefit from a full waiver of the APC publication fee in hybrid journals.

• This option is available only for selected publication types: Original Paper (Original Research, Original Article, Original Paper or Research Paper), Review Paper, Brief Communication, Continuing Education.

• In 2026, Charles University can use a total of 110 tokens to waive the payment of the publication fee.

• More information can be found on the CzechELib website. 

Wiley

• Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to benefit from a full waiver of the APC publication fee in hybrid journals.

• In 2026, Charles University can use a total of 118 tokens to waive the payment of the publication fee.

• More information can be found on the CzechELib website.

MDPI: As of November 30, 2022, Charles University ended its membership in the Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), so CU authors are no longer entitled to the discount that this membership brought.