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).
