Gold open access is a way of publishing in open peer-reviewed journals. Access to full texts is provided by the publisher, not the author.
To publish via gold open access, following steps need to be taken.
Currently, there are thousands of open access journals in various fields and areas. But apart from the specialization, these magazines also differ in their chosen business model. There are three basic models of open access journals:
Pure/diamond open access journals – Full content of the journal is openly accessible while publishing-related costs are borne by the publisher (e.g. a university publishing house, scientific community). Example: Global Health Research and Policy or European Commission’s publishing platform Open Research Europe
Paid open access journals – Full content of the journal is openly available while publishing costs of the article are borne by the authors – they pay a publication fee; this type of journals is often mistaken for the entire gold open access model. Example: PLoS ONE or Occupational Therapy International
Hybrid journals – The journal is available to subscribers by default, only selected articles are available in open access for a publication fee. Example: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
Journals of which content is available free of charge after the expiration of the embargo are not considered to be open access – they do not meet the condition of immediate access.
You can use the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) database to find a suitable open journal to publish your article or to search for relevant literature.
For new / unknown titles, we strongly advise you to check whether it is a predatory journal.
Publication fees/article processing charges (APC) are associated with a paid open access journal model and hybrid journals. The fee varies from title to title; field differences are also significant.
APCs can be covered from a grant or a research project budget (costs of open publishing for the duration of the grant are eligible for example in H2020, ERC, Czech Ministery of Education etc.), or from workplace resources (if funds have been set aside for this purpose).
Corresponding authors of the UK can also use discounts or tokens for open access publishing with selected publishers. More information below.
ACS | AIP | ACM | CUP | IOPscience | Karger | LWW | OUP | RSC | SAGE | SCOAP3 | Springer Nature | Taylor & Francis | Wiley
This list for 2023 is not yet final, it will be continuously updated.
Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to take advantage of the complete waiver of the Open Access publication fee (APC) in hybrid journals.
To use this opportunity, the corresponding author must use the institutional e-mail and choose Charles University as affiliation.
More information can be found on the CzechELib website.
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 2023, Charles University can use a total of 18 tokens to waive the payment of the publication fee.
To use this opportunity, 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.
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.
To use this opportunity, the corresponding author must use the institutional e-mail already when submitting the manuscript and choose Charles University as affiliation.
More information can be found on the CzechELib website.
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.
To use this opportunity, the corresponding author must use the institutional e-mail already when submitting the manuscript and choose Charles University as affiliation.
More information can be found on the CzechELib website.
Part of the subscription to the IOPscience e-resources within the national consortium coordinated by the CzechELib project for the years 2023-25 is the right of corresponding authors from Charles University to a full waiver of open access publication fees in all titles (hybrid and Gold OA) with a few exceptions (list of excluded journals).
When a corresponding author submits an article to an IOP journal, they are asked to indicate their institutional affiliation. If affiliated with a member institution listed above, the IOP will identify the article as eligible for Open Access publication and send an email to the corresponding author.
Corresponding authors will be contacted by the publisher to confirm that they wish to publish their article in Open Access mode near the time of article acceptance.
More information can be found on the CzechELib website.
The subscription to the Karger Journals within the national consortium coordinated by CzechELib for 2023-25 includes the entitlement of correspondent authors from Charles University to fully waive open access publishing fees (APC and Authors Choice) for publishing in both Full Open Access and Hybrid journals (titles with “Author’s ChoiceTM” service) by Karger Publishers.
To qualify for free OA publishing, select “Eligible” in the publisher’s publishing system under the section Open Access Agreements > Eligibility Declaration and specify the name of the institution (Charles University).
It is also necessary to prove the affiliation of the correspondent author with Charles University by one of 3 possibilities:
Providing an e-mail of a corresponding author from the cuni.cz domain (ie a working e-mail)
Providing a persistent identifier (eg ORCID) where the author has affiliation with Charles University in the profile, in the article metadata
Showing affiliation to Charles University in article metadata
More information can be found on the CzechELib website.
Part of the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins High Impact Collection e-resource subscription within the CzechELib project for the year 2023-25 is the right to waive a total of 5 open access publication fees (APCs) for the publication of articles by corresponding authors from the medical faculties of Charles University (2. LF, 3. LF , LFHK, LFP) in fully open and hybrid Lippincott Williams & Wilkins/Wolters Kluwer Health journals.
If you have an article accepted for publication in one of the LWW journals and would like to use a voucher to cover the costs associated with the open access fee, please contact the Open Science Support Center.
More information can be found on the CzechELib website.
Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to use the full waiver of the Open Access publication fee (APC).
Eligible journals: fully OA titles and hybrid titles, with the following exceptions (the journals listed below 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
To use the token, the corresponding author must use an institutional email and choose the correct affiliation.
More information can be found on the CzechELib website.
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.
The discount will be automatically added when the author's affiliation to the institution is recognized through the institutional e-mail address (domain: cuni.cz).
More information can be found on the CzechELib website.
Discounted APC (£200) for Open Access publishing on hybrid titles in Sage subscription collections and 20% off APC on most OA titles. Remaining APC is paid by the author from other resources.
Corresponding author should use their institution's email (not e.g. gmail.com - then correct identification cannot be guaranteed).
More information can be found on the CzechELib website.
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 open access publishing waivers allocated for Charles University for 2023 have been used up.
Next round of waivers for this publisher will be available for articles accepted for publication after 1 January 2024.
Taylor & Francis open access publishing waivers allocated for Charles University for 2023 have been used up.
Next round of waivers for this publisher will be available for articles accepted for publication after 1 January 2024.
Corresponding authors of Charles University have the opportunity to take advantage of the full waiver of the APC publication fee in Wiley's hybrid journals.
Charles University has allocated a total of 117 of these tokens for its authors for the year 2023.
In order to use the token, it is necessary to correctly indicate the affiliation and use the institutional e-mail address.
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.
If you have chosen a suitable open access journal (having verified its quality and in the case of a paid model you have the resources to cover the publication fees), submit a preprint of your article to the editor.
Once the article is peer reviewed and published, the author no longer has to worry about ensuring open access. In the case of gold open access, the publisher provides it directly on their site.
To ensure that your article is fully open, we recommend publishing it under a public license. The most common public licenses used not only for scientific articles are internationally known Creative Commons (CC) licenses. With one of the 6 CC Licenses offered, you can outline how you want your published work to be handled and thus allow anyone to use the work under clearly defined conditions.
If you don’t know which license to use for your publication, use this simple license selection application.
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