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Guide on how to publish in OA, step by step.
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What is it OA publishing

Open access (OA) means free unlimited online access to scientific literature and professional information, especially the full texts of scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals, but also monographs and other valuable information resources.

OA requirements of the funder

What to do if you have an obligation to ensure open access to your publications.

Availability of APC funding

Publishing OA publications is not without cost. The publisher provides the funding and often charges a fee. There are various options available to the author at CTU for funding OA publication fees. For example, tokens for OA publishing, which some publishers provide.

Choosing Gold (Diamond) or Green OA

Open Access can be provided in two equivalent ways. The author can choose according to their possibilities and needs.

Finding a suitable journal

There are three basic types of open journals from which an author can choose.

How to avoid predators (when publishing in OA journals)

There are many “publishers” who abuse the Open Access principle to their advantage. There are a number of fraudulent/pseudoscientific publications that are based primarily on collecting royalties. This should be avoided.

Licensing terms and the journal/publisher’s self-archiving policy (for Green OA)

Open repositories are based on the principle of self-archiving, i.e. the storage and publishing of some copy of a document (or a version of a document) by the author himself. The terms and conditions of the publisher must always be followed.

Publishing in a journal

After detailed preparation and selection of the journal, the article can be sent to the selected journal for peer review.

Archiving in repository

This is a secondary publication and another way of making our own outputs available to the professional public. A suitable repository should be chosen for storage.

Archiving in the CTU Digital Library

The CTU Digital Library is CTU’s institutional repository and serves as a university-wide platform for preserving, sharing and presenting CTU publication outputs. Depositing to the repository is done through the V3S application.

Requirements for OA in RIV (and their completion in V3S)

The information on Open Access publishing also extends to the Evaluation of the results of the research institutions. They are filled in the V3S and sent to the RIV.

Other OA publishing options

Open Access offers many other possibilities. And it’s not only journals, but also books, for example.

HOW CAN CTU CENTRAL LIBRARY HELP YOU

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Last change: 04.03.2025