Open publishing programs

National licenses (annually renewed access to electronic resources on publishers’ servers) are funded entirely by the Ministry of Education and Science, and are purchased by the Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computer Modeling at the University of Warsaw (ICM UW) as part of the Virtual Library of Science (WBN). They are intended for institutions that make up the system of higher education and science or work for the system as defined in Article 7, paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Law of July 20, 2018. Law on Higher Education and Science. In terms of national licensing, the Ministry has launched open access publishing programs and covers the costs of publishing articles in the open access model in selected journals of Elsevier and Springer publishing houses.

Consortium licenses (annually renewed access to electronic resources on publishers’ servers) are purchased for interested institutions (those that make up the system of higher education and science or act on behalf of the system as defined in Article 7, paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Law of July 20, 2018. Law on Higher Education and Science), which participate in the cost of purchase. The cost of the license is based on a consortium price list agreed upon by the Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computer Modeling at the University of Warsaw (ICM UW) with the publisher and the institutions, and may depend on the type of institution, the number of employees and students, statistics of past usage or the value of past subscriptions with the publisher. The institution pays a consortium fee of 50% of the gross cost of its license, and the remainder of the cost is subsidized by the ICM. In terms of the consortium license, open publishing programs have been launched for correspondent authors affiliated with institutions that are participants in a particular consortium. SGGW is a participant in the Oxford University Press (OUP) consortium

Contracts signed directly by the institution and the publisher. In March 2023 SGGW signed an agreement with the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), which publishes open access journals, through which authors affiliated with SGGW can enjoy a 10% discount on the fee for publishing articles in the publisher’s journals.