Library

Open access publishing programmes

Contact for open publishing programs SUM Main Library

Mr Krzysztof Gościniak, MA
Phone number: +48 32 208 36 33
publikowanieotwarte@sum.edu.pl

Programmes available to the community
Medical University of Silesia in Katowice

Search engine for journals covered by open access publishing programmes
(expertus.com.pl) – helps you choose the right journal for publishing an article that meets the scoring criteria, taking into account available funding programs for open-access publications (publication fees may be covered in full or in part by national or institutional funding programs).

It allows you to search and refine results based on criteria such as:

• ministerial scoring (in accordance with the current list of scientific journals published by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education on 5 January 2024,
• publisher covered by open access publishing programs,
• words in the journal title,
• ISSN number,
• Ministry of Science and Higher Education discipline,
• category according to the Journal Citation Reports database
• quartile according to the Journal Citation Reports database.

Please, note! The full functionality of the search engine is available on the SUM internet network or via a remote access service (proxy).

Webinar recording 29.10.2025
(SUM Library)

Where to publish your article? Journal search engine and open publishing programmes. (webinar in Polisj) (Youtube, 1 godz. 02 min 23 sek.)

Policies for subsidising Open Access publications depending on the journal publisher.

Please, note! When contacting publishers for proper verification, please use business addresses in the domain @sum.edu.pl

Open access publishing programmes of the Virtual Science Library (WBN) publishing free of charge until the limit is reached

They enable researchers affiliated with Polish scientific institutions to publish scientific articles in the Open Access model with financial and organisational support from a national consortium programme.

Open access publishing programmes under ŚUM partnership agreements – publishing free of charge until the limit is reached

They allow authors to publish articles in scientific journals under the Open Access (OA) model, with the publication costs (APC) covered .

Open access publishing schemes under ŚUM partnership agreements – Please note! Funds must be reserved

They enable authors to publish articles in academic journals under the Open Access (OA) model, with the publication costs (APC) covered in part or in full by the university.