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SCOAP3 Webinar

On December 7, 2017 CERN (Geneva) will organize an on-line presenetation (a webinar) of the SCOAP3 programme (see http://scoap3.org/register-now-for-the-scoap3-forum-2017). All interested persons are invited to pre-register at the https://scoap3.org/forum2017_registration/ Webpage. Paticipation in the event is free of charge.

Access to American Institute of Physics on-line journals made available within the framework of the Polish Consortium is possible only from the IP domain assigned to NCBJ . All titles are available via the Scitation platform (http://scitation.aip.org).
List of tiles:

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS

• Applied Physics Letters Online with Extended Backfiles http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/browse
• Chaos Online with Extended Backfiles http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/chaos/browse
• Journal of Applied Physics Online with Extended Backfiles http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/browse
• Journal of Chemical Physics Online with Extended Backfiles http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/browse
• Journal of Mathematical Physics Online with Extended Backfiles http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jmp/browse
• Physics of Fluids Online 1958-1988 http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pof1/browse
• Physics of Fluids 1994 to present http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pof2/browse
• Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pofa/browse
• Physics of Fluids B http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pofb/browse
• Physics of Plasmas Online with Extended Backfiles http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pop/browse
• Physics Today Online Archive http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/issues
• Review of Scientific Instruments Online with Extended Backfiles http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/rsi/browse

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICS TEACHERS (AAPT) TITLE

• American Journal of Physics http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapt/journal/ajp/browse

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA) TITLE

• Journal of the Acoustical Society of America http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/browse

AVS - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF MATERIALS, INTERFACES, AND PROCESSING (AVS) PUBLICATIONS

• Journal of Vacuum Science & Tech. A & B http://scitation.aip.org/content/avs/journal/jvst/browse, http://scitation.aip.org/content/avs/journal/jvsta/browse, http://scitation.aip.org/content/avs/journal/jvstb/browse

Web of Science

Web of Science national licence has been extended to include the Citation Connection package, which covers:

• BIOSIS Citation Index (2010-present)
• Current Contents Connect
• Data Citation Index: 2010-present
• Derwent Innovations Index (DII): 2010-present
• Zoological Records (ZR): 2010-present
• Book Citation Index (BCI: Science, Social Science & Humanities): 2010-present
• Current Chemical Reactions (CCR)
• Index Chemicus (IC)

The Citation Connection package databases are available at the Thomson Reuters server (http://webofknowledge.com/) to all institutions covered by the licence.

The BCI, CCR and IC databases are available as parts of the Web of Science Core Collection package. The package covers also the SCI-Ex, SSCI, A&HCI, CPCI citation indexes, as well as the JCR database.

Web of Science national licence covers also free-of-charge access to the following databases:

• Medline
• SciELO Citation Index
• KCI-Korean Journal Database
• Journal and Highly Cited Data (Journal Citation Index database merged with Essential Science Indicators database)
• Citation Connection

The Biosis, DII, ZR, BCI, CCR and IC databases will in the future be archived on the national Web of Science server (just like SCI-Ex, SSCI, A&HCI and JCR).

See http://vls.icm.edu.pl/zasady/2015/WoS/CITATION_CONNECTION_instrukcja.pdf or http://vls.icm.edu.pl/zasady/2015/WoS/CITATION_CONNECTION_PL.mp4 for guidelines (in Polish) for users of all Web of Science databases.

The ChemSpider database is available free-of-charge at the http://www.chemspider.com Webpage.

ResearchGate

https: //www.researchgate.net

International social service targeted at scientists and students, currently used by more than 400,000 scientists from 190 nations. Perfect companion for library catalogues. Each users can manage his/her own list of publications automatically retrieved from professional databases. The service offers also various applications proven to be good incentives to tighten cooperation and to share knowledge.

AIP/SCITATION

http://aip.scitation.org

A leading platform for the physicists

Open Access

oaFindr Database

In respect of the start of implementation of open access policy by MNiSW (http: //www.nauka.gov.pl/otwarty-dostep-do-publikacji-naukowych/) we would like to encourage you to acquaint yourselves with the system from 1science – leading provider of solutions for scientific and academic libraries within the range of open access to publications.

oaFindr database is a search engine for reviewed open access papers (in green, gold, or hybrid form) published in scientific journals all over the world, in any language. Access to the database allows for increasing the quantity and substantive range of published scientific papers and enables you to use the collection of over 25 million peer-reviewed open access articles.

Test access to oaFindr database has been launched and will continue until 24^th June.

URL of the database:

https: //oafindr.1science.com

How to save time and money by taking advantage of the access to 25 million scientific articles

MONTREAL, 10th May 2017 – 1sicence provides university and scientific libraries to substantially reduce time and money spent for access and dissemination of reviewed scientific papers from all the fields of science, in any language and from journals of the whole world. To manage the subscribers, cost-effectively change and expand the collection of journals and quickly fill up the repositories, libraries from four continents of the world currently use 1science database, containing 25 million records.

All over the world libraries face an increasing financial pressure and at the same time, they are expected to publish world-class research results. Endlessly encouraged to undertake new responsibilities, from reviewing the articles to helping with filling up the repositories, scientists have less and less time. „There is a lot of solutions aiding in access to scientific literature, but they are either cost-expensive or labour-expensive”, says Eric Archambault, CEO of 1science. „We have designed economic solutions, which will relieve the library budget and free scientists from time consuming tasks.”

The product line of 1science begins with oaFigr – report, which informs institutions about their current state of free access against the background of the whole world. oaFigr is also the best available solution that helps the transition of libraries into an open access model, helping librarians to calculate the displacement of funds for publishing articles in golden or hybrid open access model, as well as shows the best way to manage journals’ subscriptions to maximize the value for researchers and students.

oaFigr is a platform that enables scientists to immediately find and download a large number of reviewed articles along with connected library records. It allows for a comfortable and elastic access to a growing database of articles, using search engines and linking devices provided by EBSCO, Proquest/Ex Libris and OCLC. Additional accompanying solution – oaFindr+, aids librarians in keeping their repositories up to date without involvement of lecturers and science workers.

The most innovative solution from 1science is oaFoldr, the only self-actualizing and self-filling repository on the market. It ca be utilized by universities and scientific intitutions, which wish for their repositories to be nearly instantly on the level of the biggest repositories in the world, without the need of asking for help from scientific workers and librarians, to spend their valuable time on repeating the work already done by others.

1science company has implemented a global network of distributions providing for universities all over the world. The pioneering clients include École Polytechnique in Montreal, Caltech in California and ETH in Zurich, as well as other prestigious institutions, such as Stanford, McGill and University of Calgary and OA liders, for example Trinity University (Texas).

1science

1science’s mission is to aid in reducing the time and saving money designated to searching for the access to knowledge and its disseminating. 1science develops products combining advanced capabilities of searching and bibliometric analysis with reviewed scientific articles of highest quality. 1science company has its headquarters in Montreal, Canada, and it is connected to Science-Matrix, a professional company specializing in bibliometry and evaluation.

InCities – addendum to Web of Science

Ministry of Science and Higher Education has ordered a pilot license for access to InCities tool on platform Web of Science for 2018. InCities is used to analyse data stored in databases SCIE, SSCI, JCR and ESI ad is allows to compare scientific heritage of researchers and institutions, analyse usage of journals in institutions, develop research strategies and can aid in publication and staff-administrative decisions, see compendium. At the beginning pilot license included 79 institutions selected by MNiSW. These were academic institutions including all units from the A+ category, universities meeting the requirements needed to aply for programmes „Research school” and „Regional excellence initiative” and governmental agencies that fund scientific research: MNiSW, NCBiR, NCN and NAWA. In October the license has been expanded to all institutions registered in national license Web of Science.

InCities is also available from all IP numbers registered by institutions to WBN national licences. Each user wishing to utilize the tool must have a personal account on the Web of Science platform. The account can be made by choosing the „Sign in” option in the menu and then „Register”, see compendium: tab „dostęp i logowanie”. Warning: users, who already have a personal account on Web of Science platform, should log out of their Web of Science account before their first entry to InCities, then clear out their browsers data, and log in directly through InCities website using login and password of their personal account on Web of Science. An instruction for proxy servers administrators is also available.

Licenses of Virtual Science Library

• Announcement of the Minister of Science of January 5, 2024 on the list of scientific journals and peer-reviewed materials from international conferences
  

• Announcement of the Minister of Education and Science of November 3, 2023 on amending and correcting the announcement on the list of scientific journals and peer-reviewed materials from international conferences
  

• Announcement of the Minister of Education and Science of 17 July 2023 on the list of scientific journals and reviewed materials from international conferences.
  

• Announcement of the Minister of Education and Science of December 1, 2021 on the list of scientific journals and reviewed materials from international conferences – (www. gov. pl)
  

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1a. Elsevier open publishing program under the national license

Last update 06.10.2025: 1023 APCs from the pool of 1084 articles launched on May 6, 2025 for the year 2025 have been used. According to the new agreement, articles eligible for the program are those accepted for publication in the current year after the agreement was signed, and the date the article was submitted to the journal does not matter. The publisher does not provide for retroactive inclusion of articles; only articles accepted for publication after the program launch may be covered by the program. Authors' affiliations for the Elsevier program are verified by local administrators at institutions. Contact details for local administrators can be obtained at wbn@icm.edu.pl.

Hybrid journals included in the program in 2025 (file updated 08.05.2025) (if you have problems opening it, save the file to disk).

Additional journals available in the program for: AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Leon Koźmiński Academy, Gdańsk University of Technology, Silesian University of Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Kraków University of Economics, Poznań University of Economics, University of Economics
in Wrocław and University of Gdańsk
List of institutions eligible for the program (update 19.06.2024)
Presentation of the Rights and Access form for Program A

The Elsevier national license agreement 2025 covers publication of a limited number of articles which are exempt from the Article Processing Charge (APC). In 2025 the program covers 1084 articles accepted for publication in that year. In 2022–2024 the agreement covered 1013 articles per year submitted in the respective year to journals. In 2022, 1013 articles were published and — due to the delay in signing the Elsevier agreement and Elsevier’s postponement of the program closure — an additional 465 articles (data from Elsevier 27.01.2023). In 2023 and 2024 the program operated from January 1 of the given year until the pool for that year was exhausted. The pool of 1013 articles for 2023 was exhausted on 05.12.2023. The pool of 1013 articles for 2024 was exhausted on 23.10.2024.

Which journals and what types of articles are covered by the program?

The 2025 program includes 1120 hybrid journals from 7 ScienceDirect subject collections according to the limitation of the national license introduced in December 2022: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Health Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology, Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy; and the Lancet group. Academic institutions that are covered by the national license and individually subscribe to additional subject collections of journals may also publish in those journals under the program.

The program does not cover gold open access journals and some co-published journals where open publications are financed under special rules and cannot be implemented within the national program. The programs 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; see type descriptions.

More information:

https://wbn.icm.edu.pl/publikowanie-otwarte/#elsevier_oa

1b. Open publishing program under the IOP consortium license 2023–2025

Last update 07.04.2025: as of March 31, 2025, 27 articles have been published under the program. The program has been operating since January 1, 2025 with an unlimited pool for 2025.

The program is intended for corresponding authors affiliated with institutions participating in the IOP consortium. In 2025 the program covers all IOP hybrid and fully open journals — see lists A, B, C and D on the publisher’s website — and all publication types. The program allows publication under a CC-BY license at no charge for an unlimited number of articles accepted for publication in the current year. In 2020 58 articles were published, in 2021 60 articles, and in 2022 a pool of 60 articles was available (it was exhausted on 15.11.2022), increased by the Publisher by 10 articles which were used by 31.12.2022. Since 2023 the program pool has been unlimited: in 2023 94 articles were used, and in 2024 130 articles were used.

IOP identifies articles eligible for the program based on the affiliation provided by the corresponding author in the manuscript submission form and, after acceptance, sends information about the article to ICM. After verifying that the article includes the appropriate affiliation, ICM confirms inclusion of the article in the program. Under the new system introduced by IOP in 2021, the author fills in an additional form during peer review or immediately after acceptance. In this form the author can choose to publish OA under the program while retaining copyright. If the author opts out of OA or notifies the publisher that they want to cover the costs from another source, the article is not included in the program. Authors who do not receive an OA publication offer within the program together with acceptance can contact ICM at wbn@icm.edu.pl attaching the page(s) with the title, authors and affiliations from the accepted manuscript. A brochure about the program prepared by the publisher and information on the program are also available on the publisher’s website.

More information:

https://wbn.icm.edu.pl/publikowanie-otwarte/#iop_oa

2. Springer open publishing program under the national license

The program enables authors affiliated with Polish academic institutions, including the National Centre for Nuclear Research (Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych), to publish open articles. Publication costs are covered from MNiSW funds.

Last update 23.09.2025: 902 APCs from the pool of 1378 articles launched on April 28, 2025 for the year 2025 have been used. The publisher does not provide for retroactive inclusion of articles; only articles accepted for publication after the program launch may be covered by the program. Authors' affiliations for the Springer program are verified exclusively by local administrators at institutions. Contact details for local administrators can be obtained at wbn@icm.edu.pl.

Springer journals included in the program – 2025 catalogue
List of institutions eligible for the program (update 25.09.2025)
Presentation: Author eligibility workflow (update 08.09.2025)
Presentation of the Open Access Systems Solution form for authors

The program enables authors affiliated with Polish academic institutions to publish open articles in Springer hybrid journals. The program also includes 47 journals that changed from hybrid to fully open model since 2022. Publication costs within the program (Article Processing Charge) are covered from the Springer national license fee paid from MNiSW funds. Since 2019 the Springer national license agreement has had all the attributes of a transformative agreement, in which a larger part of the license fee is allocated to open publishing and a smaller part to access to subscription articles. This solution is based on the assumption that the share of open articles in hybrid journals will gradually increase until complete transformation of journals to an open model, which is in line with the Plan S. In 2022 the program admitted 992 articles, including 180 articles in January–February from the remainder of the 2021 pool and 812 articles in July–December from the new 2022 pool. The program was suspended between February and July 2022 due to a delay in confirmation of MNiSW funding for 2022. In 2023 the program admitted 1836 articles, including 512 articles in January–April from the remainder of the 2022 pool and 1324 articles in May–December from the new pool of 1350 articles for 2023. In January 2024 the last 26 articles from the 2023 pool were used. The program was resumed at the beginning of April 2024 and operated until 06.12.2024 when the pool of 1466 articles was exhausted.

Who can use the program?

The program is intended for corresponding authors affiliated with institutions that are covered by the Springer national license and that have set up an Article Approval Service (AAS) administrative account to verify their authors’ affiliations; see the list of institutions. The corresponding author’s affiliation should be given in the article header with sufficient detail to allow unambiguous identification against the above list. The corresponding author may provide more than one affiliation in the article and it is sufficient that at least one of them matches the list. Affiliations of any co-authors are not relevant for the program. Institutions interested in setting up an AAS account may contact wbn@icm.edu.pl.

Which journals and what articles are covered by the program?

The program currently covers 1959 hybrid journals from the Springer core collection, 33 Springer open journals (which after 2022 changed model from hybrid to fully open; see the catalogue columns “Publishing Model” and “Important Note”) and 20 ADIS hybrid journals; see the 2025 catalogue. Authors who submit their articles to fully open journals included in the program should be aware that the article may be accepted after the 2025 pool has been exhausted and then must be funded by the author (for hybrid journals the subscription publication option remains).

The program covers article types OriginalPaper, ReviewPaper, BriefCommunication and ContinuingEducation. The program does not cover EditorialNotes, News, Letters.

More information:

https://wbn.icm.edu.pl/publikowanie-otwarte/#springer_oa

3. Open publishing program under the OUP consortium license - access to the Math&Physical Sciences collection 2025

Last update 13.05.2025: the publishing program was resumed with an unlimited pool of articles for 2025. Articles published under the subscription model during the program suspension period may be converted to the open model (“retroactive conversion”).

The program is intended for corresponding authors affiliated with institutions participating in the OUP consortium that have purchased any subject collection with the full range of new journals (collection with “2025” in the name) and have signed up for the publishing program. The program covers 361 hybrid journals from the list prepared by the publisher (note: only hybrid journals with “yes” in column D on the list are included in the program). The OUP program does not include fully open journals (fully OA titles), but corresponding authors from institutions covered by the program can use a 10% discount on the APC in those journals. In 2020 the OUP program pool was 204 articles, of which 30 were used. In 2021 the pool was 100 articles, of which 62 were used. In 2022 the program covered a pool of 70 articles which was fully used. Since 2023 the program pool has been unlimited. In 2023, 90 articles were published (data updated 05.03.2024). In 2024, 61 OUP articles were published (data from January 2025).

The author of an article accepted for publication should complete the online form in accordance with the publisher’s instructions (note: a new version of the instructions was provided by the publisher on 15.05.2025) and indicate affiliation with an institution participating in the program, which will then be verified by the publisher. It is recommended that the corresponding author use an email address from the domain of a participating institution, which will facilitate verification.

Retroactive conversion: authors from institutions covered by the program in 2025 who published their articles under the subscription model during the suspension period (i.e., from January 1 to May 12, 2025) in journals included in the program have the possibility to convert the article to the open model under the program. The publisher will contact authors about this, and the author who wishes to opt into the conversion should confirm this to the publisher by email (the “opt-in” rule).

Information about the publishing program for the consortium is also available on the publisher’s page and the publisher’s contact email for publishing matters is jnls.author.support@oup.com.

 More  information :

https://wbn.icm.edu.pl/publikowanie-otwarte/#oup_oa

4. Science Advances open publishing program under the national license

Last update 28.04.2025: the program was launched with a pool of 10 articles for 2025.

Science Advances Workflow – instructions for authors

The program is an addition to the national license for access to the journal Science. The journal Science operates exclusively under a subscription model, and a separate open-access journal Science Advances is designated for open publishing. The national Science license funded by MNiSW covers the cost of publication in Science Advances for up to 10 articles from Poland per year. The offer applies to corresponding authors affiliated with Polish institutions covered by the Science license who have indicated this affiliation on the article title page. The publisher’s system automatically recognizes articles qualifying for the program based on the affiliation provided by the corresponding author; see the instructions for authors. Corresponding authors whose articles have been accepted for publication may also contact ICM at wbn@icm.edu.pl to make use of the program. In 2021 two articles were published under the Science Advances open publishing program, in 2022 three articles, in 2023 two articles, and in 2024 three articles.

More  information :

https://wbn.icm.edu.pl/publikowanie-otwarte/#science_oa

More details about open publishing programs are available on the library page of https://www.ncbj.gov.pl/biblioteka-ncbj under the Open Publishing section

and on the page https://wbn.icm.edu.pl/publikowanie-otwarte/

5. Open publishing program under the IOP consortium license 2023–2025

Last update 07.04.2025: as of March 31, 2025, 27 articles have been published under the program. The program has been operating since January 1, 2025 with an unlimited pool for 2025.

Science Advances Workflow – instructions for authors

The program is intended for corresponding authors affiliated with institutions participating in the IOP consortium. In 2025 the program covers all hybrid and fully open IOP journals — see the lists A, B, C and D on the publisher’s website — and all publication types. The program allows publication under a CC-BY license at no charge for an unlimited number of articles accepted for publication in the current year. In 2020 58 articles were published, in 2021 60 articles, and in 2022 a pool of 60 articles was available (it was exhausted on 15.11.2022), increased by the Publisher by 10 articles which were used by 31.12.2022. Since 2023 the program pool has been unlimited: in 2023 94 articles were used, and in 2024 130 articles were used.

IOP identifies articles eligible for the program based on the affiliation provided by the corresponding author in the manuscript submission form and, after acceptance, sends information about the article to ICM. After verifying that the article includes the appropriate affiliation, ICM confirms inclusion of the article in the program. Under the new system introduced by IOP in 2021, the author fills in an additional form during peer review or immediately after acceptance. In this form the author can choose to publish OA under the program while retaining copyright. If the author opts out of OA or notifies the publisher that they want to cover the costs from another source, the article is not included in the program. Authors who do not receive an OA publication offer within the program together with acceptance can contact ICM at wbn@icm.edu.pl attaching the page(s) with the title, authors and affiliations from the accepted manuscript. A brochure about the program prepared by the publisher and information on the program are also available on the publisher’s website.

More  information :

https://wbn.icm.edu.pl/publikowanie-otwarte/#iop_oa

More details about open publishing programs are available on the library page of https://www.ncbj.gov.pl/biblioteka-ncbj under the Open Publishing section

By virtue of signed agreements, NCBJ may use the Elsevier/Springer
and Wiley databases.

 https://www.sciencedirect.com/ Selected Freedom Collection journals along with the Lancet and Cell groups, including 1229 current titles with volumes from 1995 onward and 365 archival titles, and books: 1712 monographs from 2013 and 2014 and 803 volumes of book or handbook series from 2011–2015

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ Selected 491 journals and 2450 books published in 2009 and 2015

https://link.springer.com/ Journals, including 2224 current titles with all available volumes back to 1997

Under the Springer national license e-books are also available under a perpetual license. The collection purchased so far includes all English-language Springer books from the first editions in the 19th century through 2019 inclusive, except for the 2016 volume and the Intelligent Technologies and Robotics 2019 collection, for which funding was insufficient in 2020. The purchased set also includes books published under the Palgrave Macmillan imprint issued after 2016, when that publisher was incorporated into Springer. Springer also hosts older Palgrave Macmillan books on its server (the so-called Palgrave Legacy), but these are not covered by the national license. The English-language collection purchased so far comprises over 137 thousand volumes; see the catalogues: 1888–1989, 1990–1999, 2000–2004, 2005–2009, 2010–2014, 2015–2019 (update: the last catalogue does not include resources not purchased from 2016 and the Intelligent Technologies and Robotics 2019 collection). Catalogues in various ranges and formats can be generated on the publisher’s site (select “Collections with reference works”, “English” and all subject collections, then at the end of the subject collections list go to the “Legacy” section, where leave only the first 4 collections and disable all “Palgrave” collections). In addition, the perpetual national license includes (as an add-on to the purchased English-language archives) a set of archival German-language books 1815–2004. Since 2021 ICM has unsuccessfully sought funding to purchase books from 2016, the Intelligent Technologies and Robotics 2019 collection and volumes from 2020 and later. ICM does not currently anticipate obtaining MEiN funding for further Springer book purchases.

More  information about licenses on the pages:

• http://wbn.icm.edu.pl/licencje/#springer

• http://wbn.icm.edu.pl/licencje/#elsevier

• http://wbn.icm.edu.pl/licencje/#wiley

• Elsevier training
• https://wbn.icm.edu.pl/szkolenia/szkolenia#18032024

 

• ABC of science promotion | Navoica.pl
• https://wbn.icm.edu.pl/szkolenia/#szkolenie18092024
• https://www.elsevier.com/hubs/central-and-eastern-europe-customer-hub/poland
• https://www.ebsco.com/pl-pl/blogs/ebscopost/tag/webinaria
• Writing scientific articles using artificial intelligence tools

 

• Recorded webinars
• Publishing in Elsevier Open Access journals and beyond