Main Library of Warsaw University of Technology - Open Access

Open Access - funding

Introduction

Open Access (OA)

The publication of an article in the gold open access model in a prestigious journal involves the payment of publishing costs (so-called APC: Article Processing Charge). The APC charge is intended to cover, in addition to standard editorial processes, the costs of administration and review management, the production of articles in PDF format or making the publication available on the publisher's server. This expense is covered by the authors of the publication or their funding institutions. Depending on the publisher, this can range from 1 000 to 5 000 EUR/USD/CHF.

Open access publishing can be funded by:

Research project grants
Open access publishing programmes under licences:
- National (Elsevier A, Springer)
- Consortial (e.g. ACS, RSC, IoP, CUP)
University programmes (e.g. IDUB Open Science - for articles whose publication cannot be fully funded by national or consortial programmes).

The following tabs describe the individual programmes in detail.

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Elsevier

Elsevier open access publishing programme under the national licence

Elsevier Open Publishing Programme under a national licence

The program resumed on May 20, 2026, with a new pool of 1,084 articles. Articles accepted for publication in 2026 after signing the agreement with Elsevier will be eligible for the program, regardless of the article's submission date. The publisher does not plan to retroactively author articles accepted for publication in 2026 before the program launch. (update 21.05.2026).

According to the new agreement, articles accepted for publication in the current year after the agreement was signed are eligible for the programme, regardless of the date on which the article was sent to the journal. The publisher does not provide for the possibility of retroactive inclusion of articles; only articles accepted for publication after the programme was launched will be eligible for the programme.

Authors eligible for the programme:

A corresponding author affiliated with Warsaw University of Technology. In the publication process, it is recommended to provide an e-mail address with the university domain (@pw.edu.pl)
According to the agreement, the corresponding author is the only author who manages the publication process of the article from submission to acceptance and corresponds with Elsevier on this matter

The 2026 programme includes 1120 hybrid journals from 7 Science Direct thematic collections, as defined by the national licensing restriction introduced in December 2022: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Health Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy; and from the Lancet group.

The programme also offers the opportunity to publish in journals from WUT's individually subscribed collections: Environmental Science, Chemical Engineering, Energy, Materials Science, Chemistry, Business, Management and Accounting, Social Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The programme excludes gold open access journals and some journals co-published by Elsevier, where open access publications are funded under special rules and cannot be implemented under the national programme. The programmes cover the following article types: Case Reports, Data, Full Length Articles, Micro Articles, Software, Reviews, Replication Study, Short Communications, Short Surveys, Videos, Practice Guidelines and Protocols.

The only fee covered by the programme is the Article Processing Charge (APC). Authors publishing in Programme A are exempt from the APC charge, which is presented by Elsevier on the Rights and Access form as a 100% discount.

Charges for additional services that may be requested by the author (prints, printed colour drawings, etc.) are billed separately, at the author's expense and without discount. The author receives a separate invoice for these services

Regarding the verification process for articles submitted to the programme, we inform you that:

article information is sent by Elsevier to the local administrator at WUT (email for contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), who, using the EOAP account, verifies that the author is affiliated with the institution and has indicated this affiliation on the title page of the article. In case of doubt, the local administrator contacts the author.
If there are problems with the invoice issued for the data entered by the author, the author can report this to Elsevier at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Springer

Springer open access publishing programme under the national licence

434 articles out of the 1,381 allocated for 2026 have been used. The Open Access Publishing Program resumed on 24 April 2026 with an allocation of 1,381 articles for the 2026 calendar year. Starting this year, authors completing the "Publishing and Rights" form can choose the subscription-based publishing model. However, authors are still encouraged to publish their work as Open Access. The publisher does not allow the retroactive inclusion of articles in the program. Only articles accepted for publication after the program was relaunched are eligible. Within the Springer program, authors' institutional affiliations are verified exclusively by local administrators at their institutions. Contact details for local administrators can be obtained by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. (updated on 02 July 2026).

A corresponding author affiliated with Warsaw University of Technology. In the publication process, it is recommended to provide an e-mail address with the university domain (@pw.edu.pl)

The Springer Open Choice programme includes:

Springer hybrid journals. The list includes 1992 hybrid journals from the Springer core collection and 20 ADIS hybrid journals, see catalogue 2025 (updated 26.03.2025). Authors who send their articles to fully open-access journals covered by the programme should run the risk that the article will be accepted after the 2025 pool has been exhausted and will have to be funded by the author (in the case of hybrid journals, a subscription publication option remains). The programme does not include the open access journals: BioMed Central and SpringerOpen.
OriginalPaper, ReviewPaper, BriefCommunication, ContinuingEducation and other articles of a similar type. EditorialNotes, News, Letters are not included in the programme

The programme allows open access articles to be published under a CC BY licence in Springer hybrid journals.

The costs of publishing articles under the programme are covered by Springer's national licence fee from Ministry of Education and Science funds.

How to take part in the Programme?

Presentation of the Open Access Systems Solution form for authors.

The procedure for deciding on open access publishing begins after the article has been positively reviewed. The corresponding author receives an email which contains a link to complete the publication process. The link leads to a page where one has to click 'Request login email' (see presentation, page 3), after which the author will receive a second email with a link to the Open Access Systems Solution form. In the form, the correspondent author must indicate his or her affiliation (see presentation, page 5) in a list that includes institutions covered by open access publishing agreements with Springer. The selected affiliation must be one of the author's affiliations given in the article. English names of Polish institutions appear in the list in the form, but the selection from this list serves only to confirm the author's affiliation, while the name of the institution in any language version may appear in the article. If, at the time of filling in the form, the pool of articles in the programme for a given year is not yet exhausted and the system recognises the selected institution as belonging to the programme, the form will display the information 'Open access at no cost to you' (see presentation, page 6), which refers to a national agreement covering all Polish academic institutions enrolled in the Springer licence. After clicking on 'Yes, submit for approval', the article information will be sent to the local administrator at the institution for affiliation verification. The author will be notified by email of the result of the verification (see presentation, page 9). Acceptance of publication in the OA programme means that the cost of publication will be covered by the national licence fee paid to Springer by ICM and funded by the Ministry of Education and Science.

After the corresponding author has completed the Open Access Systems Solution form, the information on the article together with the data provided by the author will be sent within 2 days to the local administrator at WUT (email for contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), who, using the Article Approval Service (AAS) account, will verify if the author is affiliated with the institution and has indicated this affiliation on the title page of the article. If in doubt, the local administrator will contact the author.

The procedure described above is used by Springer to handle most hybrid journals, with the exception of some journals that have been marked as non-standard in the list of journals in column J. For these journals, the correspondence author will receive special handling instructions from the editors. Also in this case, the information on the article will be sent to the local administrator at the institution for affiliation verification.

Information about the programme is also available on the ICM - Virtual Library of Science website.

The ACS Open Access Programme under the ACS consortium licence

The ACS Open Access Programme has been relaunched with a pool of 468 articles for 2026. The programme covers articles accepted for publication in 2026.

Articles published under the subscription model in ACS hybrid journals in 2026 prior to the launch of the programme may be converted to the open access model under the programme (‘retroactive conversion’). ACS has provided ICM with a list of articles eligible for retroactive conversion, and ICM will send a proposal to the corresponding authors by 25 June to convert these articles to the open access model. ICM cannot be entirely certain that the ACS list is complete; therefore, authors who would like to take advantage of retroactive conversion but do not receive such a proposal by 25 June may contact the programme coordinator at ICM at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Retroactive inclusion does not apply to open-access articles published in ACS hybrid or open-access journals in 2026 prior to the programme’s launch at the authors’ expense, as it is not possible to include these articles in the programme or to reimburse the authors.

Authors eligible for the programme:

the corresponding author must be affiliated with the Warsaw University of Technology. During the publication process, it is recommended that an email address within the institution’s domain (@pw.edu.pl) be provided.

The programme covers:

92 journals published by ACS (all titles on the list of journals available in 2026 are covered by the open access programme), including 72 hybrid journals and 20 open access journals.
all article types except: Additions and Corrections, Expressions of Concern and Retractions.

The programme allows for open access publication free of charge:

under a CC-BY licence
468 articles nationally. The quota is not allocated to individual institutions, and articles are included in the programme in the order in which they are accepted for publication

Note: the 'Manuscript Acceptance Date' sometimes referred to in articles as 'Revised' is the deciding factor.

Read more about ACS publishing programme

Authors who submit articles for review in an ACS journal should note that at this stage ('online manuscript submission process') they complete an online form in which they should select their affiliation from a list of institutions. Once the article has been accepted for publication, the author completes the Journal Publishing Agreement (JPA) form. The form automatically recognises from the previously indicated affiliation whether the article is eligible for the programme and offers the author OA publication under the programme with copyright. The author can also waive copyright, which does not exclude from the programme but is not recommended by ICM, or choose to publish in the traditional model. If the author chooses OA publication, the system sends information about the article to ICM, which checks that the appropriate affiliation is stated in the article, and confirms the article's inclusion in the programme. Authors who have not been offered inclusion in the programme after the article has been accepted can report to ICM at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. attaching an active DOI link to the article or, if this link is not active, the page(s) with the title, authors and affiliations from the accepted manuscript. Authors taking part in the programme can also obtain assistance from ACS at any stage of publication at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

IoP

An open publishing programme under IOP consortium licence

Once the Ministry of Science and Higher Education has granted funding, a new three-year agreement will be signed with the IOP. The publisher has decided to continue the publication programme in January, February and March, and if the Ministry of Science and Higher Education has not made a decision by the end of March, it will either extend the programme or offer the possibility of retroactive activation of articles published under the subscription model before the new agreement for 2026-2028 is signed (updated on 18.03.2026).

Authors eligible for the programme:

A corresponding author affiliated with Warsaw University of Technology. It is recommended to provide an e-mail address in the institution's domain (@pw.edu.pl) in the publication process.

The programme covers:

hybrid and fully open access IOP journals and
all types of publications

The programme allows open access publication without charge:

under a CC-BY licence
an unlimited number of articles accepted for publication in the current year
the pool is not separated by institution and articles are included in the programme in the order in which they are accepted for publication.

The IOP identifies articles eligible for the programme based on the affiliation provided by the corresponding author in the form when submitting the manuscript to the journal and, once the article has been accepted for publication, sends information about the article to ICM. After verifying that the appropriate affiliation is given in the article, ICM confirms the article's inclusion in the programme. Under the new system introduced by IOP in 2021, the author fills in an additional form either during the review process or immediately after acceptance of the article. In this form, the author has the option to choose OA publication within the programme or with copyright. If the author opts out of OA publication or notifies the publisher that they wish to cover the costs from another source, the article is not included in the programme. Authors who do not receive a proposal for inclusion in the programme with their accepted article can submit to ICM at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. attaching the page(s) with the title, authors and affiliations from the accepted manuscript. Information about the programme is also available on the publisher's website.

Taylor & Francis

Open publishing programme under the T&F consortium licence

104 articles have been published. The program was launched on 13 May with a pool of 178 vouchers for the year 2026. Authors who publish open access articles in 2026 at their own expense before the program is launched will not be eligible for reimbursement under the program. (updated on 02 July 2026).

Authors eligible for the programme:

A corresponding author affiliated with Warsaw University of Technology. In the publication process, it is recommended to provide an e-mail address with the university domain (@pw.edu.pl).

The programme covers all the hybrid (‘Open Select’) journals, see the see the 2025 list. The current list of Open Select journals can be generated on the publisher’s website, where the ‘Open Select’ status and the ‘Routlege’ and ‘Taylor&Francis’ publishers must be ticked (our licence does not include journals with ‘Full open access’ status or the ‘Dove Press’ publisher).

the programme covers specific types of articles
articles will be included in the programme in the order in which they are received for publication

Once the publishing programme is launched, the publisher's system will automatically qualify articles that are eligible for publication under the programme based on the affiliation provided by the corresponding author at the article submission stage, the journal title and the article type. This pre-qualification will take place as soon as the article is accepted for publication and, at this point, the system will also check whether the programme's article pool for the year is not exceeded and, in the case of an article in a High Impact journal, whether the article pool for that group for the year is not exceeded. If the article qualifies for the programme, the author will receive an email from the publisher informing them of this possibility and a second email with a link to the “Author Publishing Agreement” form, see presentation for authors. If the author indicates on the form that they wish to use the programme, the article will then be routed to an administrator at ICM who, in consultation with the participating institutions, will verify the author's affiliation and accept or reject the article to/from the programme. If the article is rejected, the publisher's system will ask the author to fill in the agreement form again and choose either open access publication at their own expense or in a subscription model.

Also available: general information for authors about publishing in Taylor&Francis journals on the publisher's website, a page with a description of the publication programmes under the transformation agreements in each country (a description of the Polish programme will be added after the new agreement is signed), contact for authors about articles (details to be clarified) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Cambridge University Press

An open access publishing programme under CUP consortium licence

The program operates in 2026 with an unlimited pool of articles.

Authors eligible for the programme:

A corresponding author affiliated with Warsaw University of Technology. It is recommended to provide an email address in the institution's domain (@pw.edu.pl) in the publication process.

The programme covers:

376 CUP open access and hybrid journals, but an author from a given institution is only entitled to publish for free in open access in journals from the collection to which the institution subscribes. The author can check this on a dedicated page on the publisher's server.

The programme allows open publication without charge:

under a CC-BY licence
of 30 articles for the entire consortium (including a maximum of 5 OA articles free of charge per institution).

The programme allows publication free of charge for authors of articles accepted for publication in the current year.

Corresponding authors who send an article for review should demonstrate their institutional affiliation, e.g. by providing their Orcid ID. The use of an institutional email is also recommended to facilitate identification of the author's institution. After the reviews and once the article has been accepted by the journal's editorial team, the author will receive an email with a link to the relevant journal's website, which contains the forms necessary to prepare the licence agreement. An author who wishes to publish an open access article should choose one of the two forms in the 'Open Access Articles' section and select the Creative Commons licence version. The choice of form depends on whether the copyright holder of the publication is the author(s) of the publication or their employer(s). Once the author has completed and submitted the form, the article is routed for publication approval within the programme by the coordinator, and once the process is complete, the author will receive an email confirming that the article will be published in open access. The whole process is described in details in "Step-by-step guide to publishing Open Access in Cambridge Journals".

IDUB Open Science Programme – 2026 Edition

We would like to inform you that, pursuant to Decision No. 73/2026 of the Rector of Warsaw University of Technology dated 10 April 2026, the Open Science Programme has been launched at Warsaw University of Technology.

As part of the Open Science programme, the project Excellence Initiative – Research University offers financial support for the publication of scientific articles in the OA format. Eligible beneficiaries of the programme are employees of Warsaw University of Technology holding a doctoral degree awarded no earlier than 12 years prior to the date of submitting the grant application (Young Scholars), whose research output is taken into account in the evaluation of the University’s research activities.

Financial support is provided for publications in which the Young Scholar is the corresponding author or first author in:

a journal ranked in the top decile according to the current CiteScore (Scopus) ranking, or
a full-text post-conference publication with 200 points assigned on the Ministry of Science and Higher Education list.

Lists of journals are available on the IDUB project website.

Financial support is provided up to a net amount of PLN 25 000, as follows:

100% of the publication fee if the WUT Young Scholar is the sole corresponding author (maximum PLN 25 000.00 net)
100% of the publication fee if all corresponding authors are WUT Young Scholars and are affiliated with WUT (maximum PLN 25 000.00 net)
75% of the publication fee if the WUT Young Scholar is the first author but not the corresponding author (maximum PLN 18 750.00 net)
50% of the publication costs if the WUT Young Scholar is one of the corresponding authors and the other corresponding authors include individuals who are not WUT Young Scholars or do not have a WUT affiliation (maximum PLN 12 500.00 net)

The terms and conditions of the Open Science programme and the application form are available on the Warsaw University of Technology – Research University website

Frequently asked questions:

How long does it take to process an application?

5-10 working days.
Does the programme cover funding for additional features (e.g. front cover, colour printing, graphical abstract) offered by the publisher?

No, the programme only provides financial support for publishing scientific articles in the OA format. It does not cover any additional services offered by the publisher.
Is there a publication limit per applicant?

Yes, each WUT Young Scholar may receive funding no more than twice in a calendar year.
When is it possible to apply for Open Science funding?

Articles that have passed the peer review process and have been accepted for publication are eligible for the programme.
I’m planning to publish an article in an Open Access journal, can I reserve funds from the programme?

It is not possible to reserve funds. Publications that have passed the peer review process and have been accepted for publication are eligible for the programme.
I have received funding. What data should the invoice be issued for?

Warsaw University of Technology
Pl. Politechniki 1
00-661 Warsaw
NIP (VAT number/tax registration number) 525 000 58 34
The journal in which I intend to publish is covered by a national or institutional funding programme. Can I apply for funding from Open Science?

No, journals covered by other full-funding programmes should be funded by those programmes in the first place. Only after the limits provided for a given year have been exhausted the author can apply for funding from IDUB Open Science

Main Library of Warsaw University of Technology - Open Access - funding

Open Access - funding

Introduction

Elsevier

Springer

ACM

The ACS Open Access Programme under the ACS consortium licence

RSC

Emerald

IoP

Science

Taylor & Francis

Cambridge University Press

IDUB Open Science Programme – 2026 Edition

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