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

 

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• https://www.elsevier.com/hubs/central-and-eastern-europe-customer-hub/poland
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• Writing scientific articles using artificial intelligence tools

 

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

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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

• Regulation of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of 30 April 2026 on the preparation of the list of scientific monograph publishers and the list of scientific journals and reviewed materials from international conferences

• 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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Elsevier Open Access Publishing Program under the National License

Last update: 13 January 2026

The program will be resumed after the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) grants funding for 2026 and a new agreement with Elsevier is signed.

We expect the program to resume no later than May 2026, similarly to 2025.

Articles accepted for publication in 2026 after the agreement with Elsevier is signed will be eligible for the program. The date of manuscript submission is not relevant.

Elsevier does not provide retroactive inclusion for articles accepted for publication in 2026 before the program is reactivated.

Author affiliations are verified by local administrators at participating institutions. Contact information for local administrators is available at: wbn@icm.edu.pl.

Hybrid journals covered by the program in 2025 (file updated on 08.05.2025; the list will be updated for 2026).

Additional journals available in the program in 2025 for:

• AGH University of Krakow
• Gdańsk University of Technology
• Poznań University of Technology
• Silesian University of Technology
• Warsaw University of Technology
• Wrocław University of Science and Technology
• Krakow University of Economics
• Poznań University of Economics and Business
• Wrocław University of Economics and Business
• University of Gdańsk

List of institutions eligible for the program (updated on 25.09.2025)

Author journey: publishing open access with Elsevier under a Read and Publish agreement

Each year, the Elsevier national license agreement includes publication of a limited number of articles exempt from the Article Processing Charge (APC).

In 2025, the agreement covered 1084 articles. Between 2022 and 2024, the agreement covered 1013 articles annually.

In 2022, a total of 1013 articles were published, as well as an additional 465 articles due to delayed signing of the agreement and Elsevier postponing program closure (Elsevier data from 27.01.2023).

In 2023 and 2024, the program operated from 1 January until the annual article pool was exhausted:

• the 2023 pool of 1013 articles was exhausted on 05.12.2023,
• the 2024 pool of 1013 articles was exhausted on 23.10.2024.

In 2025, the program was launched on 6 May, and the pool of 1084 articles was exhausted on 15.10.2025.

Who can participate in the program?

The program is intended for corresponding authors affiliated with institutions covered by the Elsevier national license and maintaining an administrative account in the Elsevier Open Access Platform (EOAP) for affiliation verification.

The list of participating institutions is available here: list of institutions .

According to the agreement, the corresponding author is the only author responsible for managing the publication process from submission to acceptance and for communication with Elsevier.

Institutions interested in creating an EOAP account may contact: wbn@icm.edu.pl.

Which journals and article types are covered by the program?

Information will be updated for 2026.

In 2025, the program covers 1120 hybrid journals from seven ScienceDirect subject collections:

• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,
• Computer Science,
• Engineering,
• Health Sciences,
• Immunology and Microbiology,
• Mathematics,
• Physics and Astronomy,
• and the Lancet group.

The program scope reflects restrictions introduced to the national license in December 2022.

Academic institutions covered by the national license and subscribing individually to additional subject collections may also publish in those journals under the program.

The program does not cover gold open access journals or selected co-published journals where open access publishing is financed under separate arrangements.

The following article types are covered by the program:

• Case Reports,
• Data,
• Full Length Articles,
• Micro Articles,
• Software,
• Reviews,
• Replication Study,
• Short Communications,
• Short Surveys,
• Videos,
• Practice Guidelines,
• Protocols.

Detailed article type definitions: article type descriptions .

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

Open Access Publishing Program under the IOP Consortium License 2026–2028

Last update: 18 March 2026

Following the allocation of funding by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW), a new three-year agreement with IOP will be signed.

The publisher decided to continue the publishing program throughout January, February, and March 2026. If no funding decision is issued by the end of March, the publisher will either:

• extend the operation of the program, or
• offer retroactive conversion of articles published in the subscription model before the new 2026–2028 agreement is signed.

The program is intended for corresponding authors affiliated with institutions participating in the IOP consortium.

The program covers all hybrid and fully open access IOP journals, according to: Lists A, B, C, and D available on the publisher’s website , as well as all publication types.

The program enables publication under a CC BY license without any publication fees and includes an unlimited number of articles accepted for publication during the current year.

Program statistics

• 58 articles were published in 2020,
• 60 articles were published in 2021,
• in 2022, the program included a pool of 60 articles, exhausted on 15.11.2022, later extended by the publisher by an additional 10 articles, which were used by 31.12.2022,
• since 2023, the article pool has been unlimited,
• 94 articles were published in 2023,
• 130 articles were published in 2024,
• 136 articles were published in 2025 (the program operated from 1 January 2025 with an unlimited article pool).

IOP identifies articles eligible for the program based on the affiliation provided by the corresponding author during manuscript submission.

After acceptance, the publisher sends article information to ICM. Once the affiliation is verified, ICM confirms inclusion of the article in the program.

Under the system introduced by IOP in 2021, authors complete an additional form during peer review or immediately after article acceptance.

This form allows authors to select Open Access publication under the program while retaining copyright ownership.

If the author:

• opts out of Open Access publication, or
• informs the publisher that publication costs will be covered from another source,

the article will not be included in the program.

Corresponding authors who do not receive an Open Access offer under the program after article acceptance may contact ICM at: wbn@icm.edu.pl.

The message should include manuscript pages containing:

• the article title,
• the list of authors,
• author affiliations.

Additional information about the program is available on the publisher’s website .

The consortium participant list will be updated in 2026.

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

Springer Open Access Publishing Program under the National License

The program enables authors affiliated with Polish academic institutions, including the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), to publish open access articles.

Publication costs are covered by funding from the Ministry of Education and Science (MEiN).

Last update: 24 April 2026

The Open Access publishing program was resumed on 24 April 2026 with a pool of 1381 articles for the year 2026.

Starting from 2026, authors may choose a subscription publishing model in the “Publishing and rights” form. Nevertheless, authors are still encouraged to publish Open Access whenever possible.

The publisher does not allow retroactive inclusion of articles in the program. Only articles accepted for publication after the relaunch date are eligible.

Author affiliations are verified exclusively by local institutional administrators. Contact details for local administrators are available at: wbn@icm.edu.pl.

Springer journals covered by the program – 2026 catalog

List of institutions eligible for the program (updated on 25.09.2025)

Author Eligibility Workflow presentation (updated on 08.09.2025)

The program enables authors affiliated with Polish academic institutions to publish open access articles in Springer hybrid journals.

The program also includes 62 journals that changed their publishing model from hybrid to fully open access in 2022.

Article Processing Charges (APCs) are covered through the Springer national license funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW).

Program statistics

• In 2022, 992 articles were accepted under the program, including:
  • 180 articles between January and February using the remaining 2021 pool,
  • 812 articles between July and December under the new 2022 pool.

The program was suspended between February and July 2022 due to delays in confirming MNiSW funding for 2022.

• In 2023, 1836 articles were accepted under the program, including:
  • 512 articles between January and April using the remaining 2022 pool,
  • 1324 articles between May and December under the new 2023 pool of 1350 articles.

In January 2024, the final 26 articles from the 2023 pool were used.

The program resumed at the beginning of April 2024 and continued until 06.12.2024, when the pool of 1466 articles was exhausted.

In 2025, the program resumed on 28 April with a pool of 1378 articles, later increased to 1518 articles.

The program closed on 30.12.2025 after the entire pool of 1518 articles was used.

Who can participate in the program?

The program is intended for corresponding authors affiliated with institutions covered by the Springer national license and maintaining an administrative Article Approval Service (AAS) account for affiliation verification.

The detailed list is available here: list of institutions .

The affiliation of the corresponding author should appear in the article header with sufficient detail to enable unambiguous identification with the institutional list.

Corresponding authors may provide more than one affiliation. At least one affiliation must match an institution eligible for the program.

Affiliations of co-authors are not relevant for program eligibility.

Institutions interested in creating an AAS account may contact: wbn@icm.edu.pl.

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

Open Access Publishing Program under the OUP Consortium License – access to the Math & Physical Sciences Collection 2026

Last update: 09 March 2026

The 2026 program has been launched with an unlimited article pool.

The publisher allows retroactive conversion of articles published under the subscription model during the suspension period into Open Access articles.

The program is intended for corresponding authors affiliated with institutions participating in the OUP consortium that:

• subscribed to any subject collection including the full range of new journals (collections marked “2026” in the title),
• and joined the publishing program.

Only hybrid journals are covered by the program, according to the: 2026 journal list , specifically journals marked “Yes” in column C (361 titles).

The OUP program does not cover:

• selected hybrid journals owned by scholarly societies that do not participate in transformative agreements,
• fully open access journals (Full Open Access).

However, corresponding authors from institutions participating in the program are eligible for a 10% APC discount in fully open access journals.

Program statistics

• In 2020, the article pool included 204 articles, of which 30 were used.
• In 2021, the pool included 100 articles, of which 62 were used.
• In 2022, the program covered 70 articles, and the full pool was exhausted.
• Since 2023, the article pool has been unlimited.
• In 2023, 90 OUP articles were published (data updated on 05.03.2024).
• In 2024, 65 OUP articles were published (September 2025 data, updated on 18.01.2026).
• In 2025, the program resumed on 13 May with an unlimited article pool; 95 OUP articles were published in 2025 (data from 25.01.2026).

Authors of accepted articles should complete the online form according to the: publisher’s instructions .

Note: a new version of the instructions was released by the publisher on 15.05.2025.

Authors must provide their affiliation with an institution participating in the program. The affiliation will then be verified by the publisher.

It is recommended that corresponding authors use an institutional email address associated with a participating institution to facilitate verification.

Retroactive Open Access conversion

Authors affiliated with institutions participating in the 2026 program who publish articles under the subscription model during the suspension period (from 1 January until the relaunch of the program) may convert those articles to Open Access within the program.

The publisher will contact eligible authors directly. Authors wishing to proceed with the conversion must confirm their decision by email (“opt-in” procedure).

Additional information about the consortium publishing program is available on the: publisher’s website .

Publishing-related inquiries may be sent to: jnls.author.support@oup.com

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

Science Advances Open Access Publishing Program under the National License

Last update: 13 January 2026

The program continues without interruption in 2026 with a new pool of 10 articles.

The program may be suspended if the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) does not provide funding for the Science Advances license for 2026 during the first quarter of the year.

In 2025, the program was launched on 28 April 2025 with a pool of 10 articles.

Science Advances Workflow – instructions for authors

The program is an extension of the national license providing access to the journal Science.

The journal Science operates exclusively under the subscription model, while open access publishing is offered through the separate Open Access journal: Science Advances .

The national Science license funded by MNiSW covers publication costs for up to 10 articles per year authored by researchers from Poland in Science Advances.

The program is intended for corresponding authors affiliated with Polish institutions covered by the Science license who list this affiliation on the article title page.

The publisher’s system automatically identifies articles eligible for the program based on the affiliation provided by the corresponding author.

Detailed information is available in the: author instructions .

Corresponding authors whose articles have been accepted for publication may additionally contact ICM at: wbn@icm.edu.pl in order to participate in the program.

Program statistics

• 2 articles were published in 2021,
• 3 articles were published in 2022,
• 2 articles were published in 2023,
• 3 articles were published in 2024.

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

Additional details about Open Access publishing programs are also available on the library website: https://www.ncbj.gov.pl/biblioteka-ncbj in the “Open Access Publishing” section.

Further information is also available at: https://wbn.icm.edu.pl/publikowanie-otwarte/

Wiley – Access to the Journal Database

Under signed agreements, NCBJ has access to the Wiley database.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

The Wiley national license covers 491 journals, according to the: 2026 catalog .

The license provides access to journal archives from 1997 onward via: Wiley Online Library .

Until 2021, the Wiley license included access to the complete collection of: approximately 1383 titles .

Due to funding limitations, the license was reduced to approximately 490 journals with the highest usage in Poland.

Wiley Open Access Publishing

The publisher has presented a proposal for a transformative agreement for 2026. We are currently awaiting the MNiSW funding decision.

Due to limited funding, the Wiley national license has not included an Open Access publishing program so far.

Previously, the publisher offered a special discount for Polish academic institutions that created an individual Wiley Open Access Account to support and finance Open Access publishing in Wiley journals.

More information: http://wbn.icm.edu.pl/licencje/#wiley

LIBRARY OF THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH

https://ncbj.biblioteki.pl/catalog?_lang=en