OA publishing programmes

• The Association for Computing Machinery publishing programme is designed for correspondence authors affiliated with AGH and using institutional e-mail addresses in the agh.edu.pl domain.
• The programme allows an unlimited number of scientific articles to be published without paying the APC fee in ACM journals, magazines and conference proceedings.
• The programme can be used until 31st December 2026.

More information about the programme on the publisher's website

The programme has been closed

• The ACS programme allows publication without charge for authors of a certain number of articles accepted for publication in the current year. The number of articles is not divided into institutions, and articles are included in the programme in the order of their acceptance for publication (note: the Manuscript Acceptance Date sometimes referred to as Revised in articles is the deciding factor.
• If the author selects OA publication, the system sends the information about the article to ICM, which verifies that the appropriate affiliation is given in the article and confirms the article's inclusion in the programme.
• Publication of articles licenced under CC BY.
• The program was closed by ACS on October 3, when the 437th article appeared in the system.
• The program will be resumed in 2026 after the Ministry of Science and Higher Education grants funding for 2026 and after a new agreement with ACS for 2026-2028 is concluded, and will cover articles accepted for publication in 2026. The number of articles in 2026 will be approximately 470, but this depends on the final list of participants and the cost of the license. Articles published under a subscription model in ACS hybrid journals in 2026 before the program is launched may then be converted to an open model under the program ("retroactivation"). Authors who publish open articles at their own expense in ACS hybrid or open journals in 2026 before the program launches will not be eligible for reimbursement under the program (updated 22 December 2025).

The programme has been closed

• The Elsevier National Licence Agreement covers publication of a limited number of articles that are exempt from the Article Processing Charge (APC).
• The programme is intended for correspondence authors affiliated with institutions that are covered by the Elsevier National Licence and have created an administrative account in the Elsevier Open Access Platform (EOAP) - system to verify the affiliation of their authors.
• The only fee covered by the programme is the Article Processing Charge (APC). Authors publishing in the programme are exempt from the APC charge, which is presented by Elsevier in the Rigts and Access form as a 100% discount.
• Some journals charge additional fees, e.g. a fee for the number of pages (Page Charges), a fee for acceptance of the manuscript (Submission Fee) or for additional services that may be requested by the author (prints, printed colour drawings, etc.).
• Articles publish under CC BY, CC BY NC ND licence and from March 2022, under CC BY NC licence. The author can choose the licence at his/her own choice, but it is worth mentioning that a CC BY licence is required under Plan S.
• Information about an article submitted to the programme is sent by Elsevier to the local administrator at the institution (AGH Research Infrastructure Department), who, verifies that the author is affiliated with the institution.
• The list of journals included in the programme under the national license is limited (list of titles). 
• Additional journals available under the programme for the AGH University of Krakow (list of titles).

• The programme was launched with a pool of 1084 articles for 2025.

• The programme will be resumed after the Ministry of Science and Higher Education grants funding for 2026 and a new agreement with Elsevier is signed. We hope that the resumption will take place in May 2026 at the latest, as was the case in 2025. Articles accepted for publication in 2026 after the agreement with Elsevier has been signed will be eligible for the program, regardless of the date on which the article was sent to the journal. The publisher does not provide for the possibility of retroactive publication of articles accepted for publication in 2026 before the launch of the programme (updated 22 December 2025).

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Presentation of the Rights and Access form for Programme A (updated 25.10.2021)

• The programme is designed for correspondence authors affiliated with AGH University
• Articles are published under the CC BY 4.0 licence or other licence agreed with the publisher.
• The programme enables publishing 2 articles in Emerald journals subscribed by AGH University (list of titles) in 2026.

All available tokens have been used. AGH University Main Library plans to purchase 30 tokens in 2026. The purchasing procedure is in progress.

• The programme is intended for correspondence authors affiliated with the institutions participating in the consortium, who have ordered and prepaid for the publication of a specified number of articles.
• In some journals, the fee for publishing in OA under a consortium agreement covers only the cost of the basic number of pages provided for the selected journal (e.g. 5, 8 or 12 pages of formatted text). The cost of additional pages or services (graphics) is payable by the author. This information is shown on the submission form.
• Publication of articles under a CC BY licence.

• The Main Library has purchased 20 tokens as part of the IEEE consortium in 2025. The program was launched on June 20, 2025. Only articles accepted for publication after the program is launched will be eligible for the program. All available tokens have been used (update: 15/01/2026).

Videos with instructions for authors

• Programme designed for correspondence authors affiliated with institutions participating in the IOP consortium.
• Publication at no charge to authors of an unlimited number of articles accepted for publication in the current year.
• Articles eligible for the programme are recognised on the affiliation.
• Publication of articles under a CC BY licence.
• The programme worked in 2025 with an unlimited pool of articles for 2025. Once the Ministry of Science and Higher Education has granted funding, a new 3-year agreement will be signed with the IOP. The publisher decided to continue the publishing programme in January, and if the Ministry of Science and Higher Education does not make a decision by the end of January, it will either extend the programme to February or offer the possibility of retroactive activation of articles published in the subscription model before signing a new agreement for 2026-2028 (updated 20 January 2026).

• The programme is a supplement to the journal Science. A separate open-access journal, Science Advances, is designed for open access publishing.
• The national Science licence fee funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education covers the cost of publishing up to 10 articles from Poland per year in the journal Science Advances.
• The publisher identifies such articles itself, based on the affiliation provided by the author. 
• The programme continues uninterrupted in 2026 with a new pool of 10 articles. The programme may be discontinued if, in the first quarter of 2026, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education does not grant funding for the Science Advances licence for 2026 (updated 20 January 2026).

• Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics is a one-of-its-kind partnership of over three thousand libraries, key funding agencies and research centres in 44 countries, regions or territories and three intergovernmental organisations. The SCOAP3 model is based on a lightweight central administration at CERN which arranges payment of Article Processing Charges at a competitive level, through funds made available by the participating institutions.
• The consortium currently has agreements with publishers for the period 2023-2024 covering 3 APS journals (funded in partial by SCOAP3 and subscriptions), 2 Springer journals, 2 Elsevier journals and 1 journal each from IOP, OUP and Jagiellonian University.
• Publication without individual fees by authors. The programme continues uninterrupted and without restrictions on the number of articles.

The programme has been closed

• The Springer Open Publishing Programme enables authors affiliated with Polish academic institutions to publish open access articles in Springer hybrid journals (list of titles).
• The agreement is a transformative one in which the majority of the licence fee is for open access publishing and a minority is a fee for access to subscription articles.
• The programme is designed for correspondence authors affiliated with institutions that are covered by Springer's national licence and have set up an Article Approval Service (AAS) administrative account to verify the affiliation of their authors. Costs are funded by the Ministry of Education.
• Publication of articles under a CC BY licence.
• The program has been started in April with a pool of 1378 articles. On 22 October the pool of articles for 2025 has been increased to 1518 articles.

• The program will be resumed in 2026 after the Ministry of Science and Higher Education grants funding for 2026. We hope that the resumption will take place in April 2026 at the latest, as was the case in 2025. The publisher does not provide for retroactivation of articles, only articles accepted for publication after the program was started will be included in the program (updated 29 December 2025).

Presentation of the form Open Access Systems Solution

• The Trans Tech Publications programme is designed for correspondence authors affiliated with AGH and using institutional e-mail addresses in the agh.edu.pl domain.
• The programme enables publication of an unlimited number of scientific articles without paying the APC fee in the journals covered by the programme.
• Articles are published under the CC BY 4.0 licence.
• The programme can be used until December 31, 2026.

More information about the programme on the publisher's website

All publications must be published under an open licence, preferably the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0

The journal/platform must be registered in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) or in the process of being registered.

Publishing programmes under Wirtualna Biblioteka Nauki so-called transformative arrangements.

Journals licensed for open access under so-called transformative arrangements must be registered by the Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges (ESAC-registry).

List of transformative journals

Open Access publishing programmes for AGH University of Krakow

Plan S allows the selection of such a journal, but only until 2024 and under the condition that the article, both in the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM version) and the final version of the publication (Version of Record VoR), must be simultaneously published in an open access repository at the same time as it is published online (with no time embargo). The repository must be registered in the Open Directory of Open Access Repositories  (OpenDOAR).