"Policy on publishing in open access the results of research funded by the National Science Centre" allows for articles to be published either in Open Access, or in a closed (subscription) model, with no obligation to make the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) or preprint version of the publication available in a repository.
In the annual and final reports of national projects supported by NCN, researchers should include publications that resulted from the research project and contain an acknowledgement with the following information: the registration number, or decision number, or contract number of the project and the full name of the project’s funder.
Open Access publications may be published under any Creative Commons licence or other open licence that complies with open access principles.
The "OA model" checkbox refers to the method of publication, the so-called publication routes. Choose one of the three routes allowed by NCN:
- Route 1
Publications in journals registered or in the process of registration in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The status of the journal in DOAJ at the time of submission of the manuscript to the publisher is decisive. - Route 2
Publications in subscription and/or hybrid journals. If the article is published in a closed model on the publisher's website, it is recommended that the author(s) make a version of the publication (e.g. preprint or Author Accepted Manuscript, AAM) available in an open repository registered with the Open Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR). Failure to make the preprint/AAM available will not affect the recognition of the project costs or its acceptance. - Route 3
Publications in open access journals under so-called transformational agreements (available for a limited period of time, based on current arrangements of national publishing consortia).