Opportunities and Challenges of Open Science in the Czech Republic
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Czech Council for Higher Education supports diamond open access
The Assembly of the Council of Higher Education Institutions adopted the following resolution at its 8th session, held on 21 May 2026:
Diamond Open Access
The Council of Higher Education Institutions recognises the benefits of Diamond Open Access as an ethically, economically, and academically sustainable model of scholarly publishing, one that charges no fees to either authors or readers, is governed by the academic community, and enables fair and open access to the outputs of publicly funded research.
The Council of Higher Education Institutions notes that this publishing model represents a responsible approach to the use of public funds, as it limits their flow into the disproportionate profits of a narrow group of commercial publishers, and allows resources allocated to science and research to remain within the academic community and be reinvested for the benefit of scholarship and researchers.
The Council of Higher Education Institutions calls on public research funding bodies, government authorities, and university leadership to actively support Diamond Open Access — in particular when formulating requirements for publication outputs from publicly funded projects and when developing institutional and national publishing infrastructures.
The full text of the resolution is available here (Czech only).
