This year’s International Open Access (OA) Week‘s (October 20-26th) theme “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce. It also challenges us to reflect on not only who has access to education and research but on how knowledge is created and shared, where it has come from, and whose voices are recognized and valued.

This theme builds on the conversations, events, and actions over the past two years that have focused on putting “Community over Commercialization.” During this time, we’ve made significant progress toward this end, but we cannot stop here. Therefore, we are encouraging VILNIUS TECH researchers share their research results openly by publishing them via Open Access route.

Publishing by Open Access model is one of the main measures enabling to significantly increase the visibility of the published research results. However, publishing by Open Access model usually requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) to be paid by the author.

The Lithuanian Research Library Consortium (LMBA) has directly or through membership in EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) organization signed agreements with international publishers, which not only provide full access to the publishers' subscribed content, but also allow the authors of the participating institutions to publish articles in the publishers' journals in an Open Access manner without paying APCs.

These agreements with publishers allow authors not only to avoid the bureaucratic and financial burden of APC payments, but also provide published results with greater visibility and, accordingly, citation opportunities, and also ensure compliance with project funders' requirements to publish project results in an open access manner while maintaining copyright since all articles published through transformative agreements are published under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) licenses.

VILNIUS TECH authors can publish their articles in open access free-of-charge in 8 international publishers journals.

More information about free-of-charge open access publishing opportunities valid to VILNIUS TECH authors is provided in the Library’s webpage Scientific Communication section Open Access -> Free-of-charge Open Access Publishing possibilities

We would also like to remind that VILNIUS TECH community members can utilize the APC discount offers for publishing in sources from several international publishers, negotiated by EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) organization.

Important! Only corresponding authors affiliated to an institution which has signed an agreement with a publisher can publish open access for free or with discounted APCs. The authors must use institutional e-mails.
The terms and the course of application may differ depending on the publisher, so authors are recommended to delve into the individual agreements or discount proposals before submitting their manuscripts for publishing.

More information about APC discounts valid to VILNIUS TECH authors is provided in the Library’s webpage Scientific Communication section Open Access -> APC Discounts

The list of all journals in which Lithuanian authors can publish in open access free-of-charge or with discounted APCs, can be downloaded here >>>

The list includes and can be sorted by the journal represented subject fields, proposal types, their application conditions, journals‘ publishing models, language, regular APC costs,  Journal Impact Factor (JIF) values (if present), ISSN numbers and links to the journals home-pages.