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

Open Access = Open Science = Open Access means being able to read scientific content without paying for access to it.

Publishers mostly pass on the costs of publishing in the Open Access model to authors in the form of article processing charge (APC). These fees can be covered by so-called national or institutional open publishing programmes.

Programmes available to the community
Medical University of Silesia in Katowice

Search engine for journals covered by open access publishing programmes
allows you to search by:

• publisher,
• journal score,
• journal title,
• words from the journal title,
• journal ISSN.

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)

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 publishing programmes of the Virtual Science Library (WBN)

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.

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Programy publikowania otwartego w ramach umów partnerskich ŚUM

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