NCN (National Science Center)
NCN (National Science Center)
The NCN is the Polish funding agency that has funded my "CARAMEL" project.
Open access policy
In general, NCN requires you to make sure that your publications are recorded as Open Access. Among other things, this means that in the acknowledgments of every manuscript funded by NCN, you have to write explicitly the following sentence:
This research was funded in whole or in part by [Funder] [Grant number]. For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC-BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version arising from this submission
According to their Open Access instructions, this is how we, as authors, protect our freedom to freely use our intellectual work, in agreement with the Right Retention Strategy (RRS).
You can find the complete Open Access instructions from NCN either in Polish or in English.
Open Access route
NCN recognises three different routes for Open Access:
- Full open access
- Subscription based
- Transformative journals and journals covered by a licence under a transformative agreement.
Detailed information about which open access route can be used for a given journal is provided by the Journal Checker Tool. Articles published in journals from the Journal Checker Tool list, in accordance with the conditions indicated for a given venue, will be deemed by the NCN compliant with the NCN’s Open Access Policy.
Importantly, the Journal Checker Tool list also includes subscription-based journals such as “Nature”, “Quarterly Journal of Economics”, “Science”, “Cell”, “Journal of Political Economy”, “Lancet”, “Physical Review Letters”.
Note that the Journal Checker Tool always indicates the route that complies with the NCN’s OA policy!
For example, “Nature” is a transformative journal, and as such complies with route 3. In addition, the conditions of OA are met by an AAM published in accordance with the Rights Retention Strategy, RRS (route 2). According to the data provided by the Journal Checker Tool, “Science” is compliant with route 2 that includes the RRS.
Frequently asked questions
You can find the FAQ on the NCN's webpage in Polish and English.