An announcement regarding the resumption of the Elsevier Open Access publishing programme (in Polish) has been published on the Virtual Library of Science (WBN) website.
In 2026, the programme covers 1,120 hybrid journals (excel, 51 kB) from seven thematic ScienceDirect collections:ct:
- Biochemistry,
- Genetics and Molecular Biology,
- Computer Science,
- Engineering,
- Health Sciences,
- Immunology and Microbiology,
- Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy;
- as well as journals from the Lancet group.
The national Elsevier licence agreement covers the publication of a limited number of articles (in 2026, the pool amounts to 1,084 articles), which are exempt from the Article Processing Charge (APC).
Up-to-date information on Open Access publishing programmes, prepared by the team of the University of Lodz Library, can be found in the UniLodz Employee Knowledge Base, in the Open Science tab (after logging in).
