Excellence Publications Support Fund

The aim of this tool is to support excellent publications by authors from the Faculty of Medicine MU. The purpose of the fund is to cover publication costs in the year 2022, provided that the rules set out below are met. The application is submitted via a form in the Document Office application in IS MU.

Criteria:

• Publication is in the first or second quartile of Web of Science category
• First or corresponding author is from FM MU
• In case of collaboration within MU, more than half is dedicated to FM MU
• The journal meets the criteria of transparency and good practice in scientific publishing*

*Prevention of predatory publishers - given the emerging new patterns of predatory behaviour by publishers, we recommend paying increased attention to suspicious features that contradict the principles of good practice in scientific publishing, especially journals that publish large numbers of papers in so-called special issues.

Eligible Costs:

• Publication fees
• Fees for text corrections, graphics (colour images, etc.)
• Open Access fees

Payment Methods:

Approved eligible costs will be reimbursed by the Grant Office on the basis of the sent tax document (invoice) issued to Masaryk University, Faculty of Medicine (i.e. the invoice will state: Masaryk University Faculty of Medicine, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno including VAT: CZ00216224).

Submit an application