Open Access Publishing - Tokens

The Central Library provides access to selected electronic information resources (EIR) in the form of an annual subscription. Agreements with providers of access to these EIRs are secured by the National centre for electronic information resources CzechELib. Within individual databases, it can be selected collections or complete access to everything.

Due to high demand for Open Access publishing, the main strategy is to convert the classic subscription license agreement model to a transformative agreement model. The classic subscription license deals with the access to resources for "reading" and downloading EIR only. The transformative agreement includes the transfer of part of the read fee to the publish fee. 

Simply put, transformation agreements give us access to electronic information resources + a certain number of tokens that can be used to pay the Article Processing Charge (APC).

Number of tokens and their usage

Terms of use

• One token covers the publication fee (Article Processing Charge, APC) for one article published OA.
• The discount or token for OA publishing can be used by VSB-TUO authors who are the Responsible Corresponding Authors of the given articles.
• During the review process and communication with the publisher, it is recommended to use an institutional e-mail address with the domain @vsb.cz, and not a private one (e.g. @gmail.com), in order to correctly identify the author.
• The article must state VSB-TUO as the primary institutional affiliation.
• The token is assigned after the article is accepted by the publisher; it cannot be reserved in advance.
• Tokens are allocated according to the "First come, first served" rule.