Publication activity

Open Access

  • Open Access is defined as permanent and free on-line access to documents (particularly full texts) for all users. This status includes free and unlimited reading, downloading, copying, sharing, saving, printing, searching and hypertext linking.
  • The Open Access Policy of the of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic was approved by the Academic Council of the Czech Academy of Sciences on 14 September 2010.

Open Data

  • Open-access publishing and data sharing that provides immediate, free, permanent and unrestricted access to scientific results is increasingly supported by scientific institutions and funders worldwide.
  • Data sharing according to FAIR Data principles does not mean making data automatically accessible. The aim is to observe the principle “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”.
  • The Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences offers authors the storage of their data in an ASEP data repository that is compatible with the FAIR principles. Handle and DOI persistent identifiers are assigned to the stored records. Records are published under a Creative Commons license.

OpenAIRE

  • OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) is a project that is dedicated to building infrastructure and support for open access to the results (peer-reviewed research articles) of scientific projects funded by the European Union (Horizon Europe) and Horizon 2020. Records from the ASEP Repository are regularly harvested into OpenAIRE.

Evidence of Publication Activity of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ASEP Repository)

  • The ASEP database contains complete bibliographic records of the results of scientific research at the institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences since 1993. Since 2012, the full texts of documents have been deposited with the bibliographic records; it has been possible to deposit described data files (metadata + datasets) since 2018. The bibliographic and dataset records are stored in the Advanced Rapid Library (ARL) system from the company COSMOTRON in the “Records of Publication Activity (EPCA)” module. A repository has been created for full texts and datasets within the ARL.
  • The data is publicly accessible via the on-line catalogue of the ASEP Repository (since 2005) and the web application ASEP Analytics (since 2009) which can be used to display bibliographic summaries and graphical outputs of institutes, departments and individual researchers.

Publication activity of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences

  • The Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences publishes specialised publications, journals, bibliographies and analytic registers of old prints from its collections. The staff of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences also contribute specialist articles to Czech and foreign journals and monographs.
  • Books and History (content and résumé in electronic form, in Czech only)
    A journal focusing on the history of books, typography and libraries in the Czech Lands up to the middle of the 19th century.
  • Information – the bulletin of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences (in electronic form, in Czech only)
    An informational bulletin issued to meet the needs of the libraries and scientific information centres of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It provides organisational information and an overview of items of interest in the area of library and information services in the Czech Republic and abroad. It has been issued in electronic form only since 2011.

An overview of journals issued at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Where to publish

  • The right choice of a journal for publication is essential. The title should be trustworthy. It is necessary to avoid disreputable/predatory journals that do not observe the ethical principles of publishing (publishing ethics).

Predatory journals

  • The main goal of predatory publishers is easy profits. Predatory journals are primarily established to collect royalties and their publishers do not respect the ethical principles of publishing (publishing ethics). Articles do not go through a high-standard peer-review process and the professional standard is low. There are not merely predatory journals, but also predatory publishers, conferences, proceedings and books.
  • There is a fine line between a predatory journal and what is merely a journal of a lower standard. Modern forms of predation are becoming more prevalent -– journals no longer have the formal characteristics of predation and an initially high-quality journal may change and publish a larger number of articles, often in special issues. Predatory journals usually have titles very similar to those of reputable journals, and some give false indicators such as an impact factor different to that given in the Journal Citation Reports database. They often actively approach scientists with requests for articles and participation in conferences.
  • Choosing a high-quality journal to publish in is important because publishing in a predatory journal is not considered a valid output. Results that have already been published in a title of poor quality cannot be reused for serious publication.