Conditions of Open Access Fund

• employee or student of BUT
• first and/or corresponding author

Grant conditions:

• The publication fee is paid from the Fund in real amount, the amount above 85 000 CZK (including VAT) is paid from the author's workplace.
• 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, overpages fee etc.
• The article has to be published in the journal which is indexed by Web of Science and is in AIS Quartile Q1.
• The article must not be published in the MDPI publisher.
• The journal can be fully OA and can be hybrid also.
• If the journal is fully OA, it must be indexed 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).
• Applications can only be made for articles accepted for publication after the peer review process from 1 December 2025.
• Applications are accepted from 1st January 2026 to 20th December 2026.
• Applications will be accepted until the money run out (on the base "first-come, first-served").

Application form:

https://www.vut.cz/en/uk/openaccess/fund/application

Invoice essentials:

The application will not be handled after the 20^th December 2026. Payments can be made in EUR or USD. The invoice shall contain the following information:

• BUT data: Brno University of Technology, Antoninska 548/1, 60200 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
• Directory of Open Access Journals - https://doaj.org

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