The University of Pécs offers two forms of funding support to authors, which you can find more information about on our website. One of them is the institutional Read & Publish contracts, the other is the UQA-UP Open Access Fund.
These two methods are administered by library staff. Some faculties are able to provide additional Open Access funding for their own researchers and teachers. Please contact the relevant faculty for more information.
The two funding methods have similar but not identical conditions.
In the case of Open Access agreements with publishers, the University will support the publication of articles as open access if the following conditions are met:
To be eligible for funding through the UQA-UP Open Access Fund, publications must
In case of the Open Access contracts with publishers, the publishers check the authors’ eligibility for institutional open access publication through these (automated) methods:
If the submission dashboard of the publisher recognizes that you are affiliated with “University of Pecs”, it will automatically offer the institutional open access option. The publishers draw the corresponding authors’ attention to the indication of institutional open access support with various explanatory notes. (They give information in e-mail or on the submission dashboard about the support.)
Before submitting, you may want to check which journals and article types are covered by the contract with the publisher. If the selected journal or article type is not included in the agreement, you can apply for funding through the UQA-UP Open Access Fund.
In the case of the UQA-UP Fund, once the article has been accepted, the corresponding author can apply for funding by uploading the invoice using the form at https://go.tkp.hu/oa-urlap.
This is not necessary, as in the case of both the Open Access Contracts and the UQA-UP Fund, the library staff will be notified of the request. However, before submitting the manuscript, it is advisable to be thoroughly informed about the details of the chosen funding method.
If the information available on the library's website is not sufficient or if you have any further questions, please contact us using one of the contact details provided.
The contact persons of the Office:
Réka Gajda gajda.reka@lib.pte.hu (72) 501-600/28069
Rita Fekete fekete.rita@lib.pte.hu (72) 501-600/28042 vagy 62409, +36 30 371-9768
Tamás Horváth horvath.tamas@lib.pte.hu (72) 501-600/28029
Not in the case of agreements with publishers, because publishers do not keep track of the order of authors. All corresponding authors who are employed by the University of Pécs are eligible for institutional support.
In the case of the UQA-UP Open Access Fund, the first, last or corresponding author can apply for the grant. If the applicant is the corresponding author, it does not matter what order the authors are listed in.
No. For both forms of funding, the requesting author must be an employee of the University of Pécs and must have an affiliation with one of its departments, but we do not consider the institutional affiliations of the co-authors.
The funding provided covers the cost of the Article Processing Charge (APC) for open access articles by PTE authors. Note that the agreements don’t cover the charge of colour figures, offprints and submission fees.
Most open access agreements with publishers are consortium agreements, which means that more than one university or research institutions contract the publishers. The number (and amount) of articles that can be published is determined by the publishers and can be used up by the consortium member institutes countrywide.
For questions about quotas, please contact us using one of the contact details below.
The contact persons of the Office:
Réka Gajda gajda.reka@lib.pte.hu (72) 501-600/28069
Rita Fekete fekete.rita@lib.pte.hu (72) 501-600/28042 vagy 62409, +36 30 371-9768
Tamás Horváth horvath.tamas@lib.pte.hu (72) 501-600/28029
If the quota number established by a particular publishing contract is used, articles for which the selected journal and the article in question meet the criteria of the UQA-PTE Open Access Fund are eligible for support from the Fund.
Publishers usually consider the year of acceptance, not the date of submission. So this is why it may happen that an article may no longer be eligible for institutional open access funding; it was submitted before the quota exhaustion, but was accepted after the quota exhaustion.
The consortium agreements are renegotiated in every year. It is possible that an institute cannot or does not want to be a member of the consortium next year. During the new negotiation period, publishers have the right to change the conditions of the institutional open access publishing.
There is no limit. The corresponding author can publish every single article during the contract period in accordance with the terms of agreements or until the quota is exhausted.
In case of the agreements with publishers, the Creative Commons Licenses are determined by the publishers in the open access agreements. You can check the list of licenses on our webpage, from which you can choose.
If you need help, the following page can help you choose Creative Commons licenses: https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/
No, it’s not obligatory. In the field ‘Funding’ you have to name the financing institutions such as OTKA, NFIH, EFOP, GINOP etc..
Most of the publishers with which we have an agreement have journal finder services that are free of charge.
Elsevier: https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/
SpringerNature: https://journalsuggester.springer.com/
Karger: https://www.karger.com/journal/JournalScout
Wiley: https://journalfinder.wiley.com/search?type=match
Journal finders use smart search technology and field-of-research-specific vocabularies to match your paper to scientific journals. All you need to do is type in the title of the manuscript and your abstract. Then the algorithm uses this information to recommend relevant journals. There may be journals among the results that are not included in the contract with the publisher, so check the lists for the contract under Open Access Publishing (https://www.lib.pte.hu/en/service/open_access_publishing-204) before submitting the manuscript.
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