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In October, 2019 the Coalition for Open Education prepared a report on institutional open access policies in Poland (released on the Coalition website under CC BY licence). The report was prepared by Iwona Sójkowska (EBIB Association) and Natalia Gruenpeter (ICM, also NOAD in Poland). Presented below is a condensed version of the report, as well as updates from October 2019 to March 2020.

Recommendations of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education

In Poland, developing and adopting open access policy is recommended by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education: "The first step towards defining the principles of open access should be the adoption of open access policy by each scientific unit and university." → https://www.gov.pl/web/nauka/otwarty-dostep-do-publikacji-naukowych

 Recommendations in "Directions of the development of open access to research publications and research results in Poland” (2015) include providing open access to research results (with a preference for libre open access): “To achieve this it is necessary to develop and adopt institutional open access policies at the level of scientific units or universities. These policies may in particular require that authors of scientific publications from publicly funded research deposit them in a specific repository (make the full text or reference-link to the text published in gold open access available in the repository)” (p. 12). →  https://www.gov.pl/web/nauka/dokumenty-na-temat-otwartego-dostepu

Open access policies

Higher education institutions:

  • Warsaw School of Economics, 22.11.2017 | PL
  • University of Gdańsk, 14.12.2017 | PL
  • Medical University of Lodz, 22.02.2018 | PL
  • Cracow University of Technology, 22.03.2019 | PL
  • Poznań University of Life Sciences, 9.10.2019 | PL
  • Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, 10.10.2019 | PL
  • The University of Rzeszów, 28.11.2019 | PL
  • Jagiellonian University, 20.12.2019 | PL
  • University of Life Sciences in Lublin, 23.12.2019 | PL
  • University of Silesia in Katowice, 8.02.2020 | PL
  • The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, 24.02.2020 | PL
  • University of Wrocław, 2.04.2020 | PL
  • Lublin University of Technology, 6.11.2020 | PL
  • Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań,  8.01.2021 | PL

Seven medical universities and one scientific institute adopted a joint open access policy of the Polish Medical Platform (Polska Platforma Medyczna, a project financed under the Digital Poland Operational Programme; Action 2.3 Sub-activity 2.3.1, type II: digital availability of science resources):

Joint Open Access Policy | PL

  • Medical University of Bialystok
  • Wroclaw Medical University
  • Medical University of Gdańsk
  • Medical University of Silesia
  • Medical University of Lublin
  • Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin 
  • Medical University of Warsaw
  • Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine

Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine first adopted its own institutional open access policy (28.12.2016), and later adopted joint policy of the Polish Medical Platform (26.09 2018).

Research institutes:

  • Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences | 2.10.2017 | PL ENG 
  • Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences | PL 
  • Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences | PL ENG
  • Central Mining Institute in Katowice, 16.07.2018 | PL
  • Institute for Chemical Processing of Coal in Zabrze, 12.09.2018 | PL ENG
  • International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, 14.11.2019 | PL ENG
  • Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1.02.2021| PL

Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM), University of Warsaw introduced open access policy before 2015 (7.10.2014) | PL ENG

Institutions developing open access policies

The following institutions are planning to adopt open access policies (information on websites or received via email):

  • University of Warsaw | info 
  • West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin | info 
  • Warsaw University of Life Sciences
  • Military University of Technology, MUT
  • University of Opole
  • Gdańsk University of Technology
  • Wrocław University of Science and Technology
  • The Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw
  • University of Lodz
  • Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Maj Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Kielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition, Polish Academy of Sciences

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