Open Access Fund

In 2020 BUT set off 2 500 000 CZK budget for open access publication fees.

The applicant of the grant must be:

• employee or student of BUT
• first or corresponding author

Grant conditions:

• Maximum of demanded money is 3000$.
• One applicant can apply for a grant once in a year.
• Author can apply only when there is no possibility of any other donation (grants, projects budget etc.)
• The grant will not cover fees for reprints, colour printing, administration fees etc.
• The article has to be published in the journal which is indexed by Web of Science and is in AIS Quartile Q1-Q2.
• The journal must be fully OA and not just hybrid.
• The journal must be in Directory of Open Access Journals.
• Article must be published under Creative Commons license.
• The supported article must be uploaded to the institutional repository (BUT Digital Library).
• The application must be send after the acceptation of the manuscript.
• The articles should be published within a same year when the application was accepted.
• Applications will be accepted until the money run out (on the base "first-come, first-served").

Application form:

http://formulare.lib.vutbr.cz/fond-oa/en/

Invoice essentials:

The invoice and application must be submitted at least one week before the due date. The application will not be handled after the 8^th January 2021. Payments can be made in EUR or USD. The invoice shall contain the following information:

• BUT data: Brno University of Technology, Antoninska 548/1, 60190 Brno, ID: CZ00216305
• Publisher data: Name of the Company, Payment Description, Bank Information
• Bank information:
  • Europe: Bank name, Address, Account No., Swift Code, IBAN
  • USA: Bank name, Address, Account No., Swift Code, IBAN, Routing number (or similar).

Information about journals:

• Web of Science - http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/linksj/opensearch.cgi

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