The National Science Centre (NCN) has extended the period during which articles may be published via Route 3 in accordance with NCN’s Open Access Policy. The extension will apply to all articles published in transformative journals, as long as they are published or accepted for publication by 31 December 2025
Publishing costs (APC) under Route 3
Open-access article processing charges (APC) will be treated as eligible costs provided the following conditions are met:
- the article is published or accepted for publication by 31 December 2025,
- the article is published under a CC BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, or, in justified cases, a CC BY-ND 4.0 licence.
The APCs may be listed as:
- “Open Access indirect costs”,
- “other indirect costs”.
Letter re. Extension of Route 3 for Transformative Agreements under NCN’s OA Policy
Transformative journals
Please remember that transformative journals will no longer be published as such after 31 December 2024. As of 1 January 2025, those that have met the goals of Plan S will be recognised as full open access journals (Route 1) and the rest will be treated as hybrid journals (Route 2). For the purposes of your annual and final project reports, the key date is the date on which your article was accepted for publication. Route 3 extension will also apply to journals covered by agreements with the Virtual Science Library (WBN).