Discounts and tokens for open access publishing:

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 is possible in diamond OA journals or paid OA journals. Full content of the Article or full Journal is openly available while publishing costs of the article are borne by the authors – they pay a publication fee.

Corresponding authors of the Charles University (CU) can use discounts or tokens for open access publishing (mostly in hybrid journals) with selected publishers:

Rules for the allocation:
The discount or token for open access publishing can only be used by authors of the CU who are corresponding authors of the given articles (for proper recognition by the system, we recommend using an institutional e-mail address for communication with the journal) and who have listed the CU as their primary affiliation.
It is possible to apply for a token only after the article has been accepted by the publisher, tokens cannot be reserved in advance.

For publishers where the number of tokens per year is limited (Springer, Taylor & Francis) all the following conditions must be met in addition**):

  • the article will be published only in journals that are in the Q1 or Q2 quartiles according to the Article Influence Score (AIS), which can be found in the Web of Science database; if the journal is not included in the Web of Science database (specifically indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, Emerging Sources Citation Index), but is included in the Scopus database, the current value of its Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) metric which can be found in the SCOPUS database or on the CWTS Journal Indicators website, must rank in quartiles Q1 or Q2 according to SNIP, i.e. be ≥ 0.667
  • The order of journals ranking check: the AIS quartiles in WoS with all included indexes, if not found, then SCOPUS and the value of SNIP.
  • The approval or rejection of tokens is bound to the current value of metrics at the time of the token allocation request. It is impossible to make retrospective changes driven by the update (change) of the metrics' value in the following period.
  • Articles with secured funding for the APC fee from other sources (e.g. from a grant or other resources of the workplace) do not use tokens. Tokens are primarily intended for authors who do not have such funding secured.