Open Access Article Publishing Fund
About this opportunity
Campus:
Bloomington
Contact:
Kaylie Hash,resgrnt@iu.edu
Willa Tavernier,wtavern@iu.edu
Deadline:
The funding cycle for the 2024-2025 academic year is now open. Please note that IU Libraries has ongoing pilots in place for no-fee open access publishing with publishers including PLOS (all 12 journals), Cambridge (all gold and hybrid journals) and Wiley (hybrid journals). If applicable to your research you should use these pilot programs instead of the OA Fund. Researchers can visit https://guides.libraries.indiana.edu/OApublishing for more information or contact Willa Tavernier at wtavern@iu.edu.
Award cycle:
Annual
Funding available:
This program is funded by the IU Bloomington campus, and only IU Bloomington faculty are eligible.
The funding cycle for the 2024-2025 academic year is now open.
Please note that IU Libraries has ongoing pilots in place for no-fee open access publishing with publishers including PLOS (all 12 journals), Cambridge (all gold and hybrid journals) and Wiley (hybrid journals). If applicable to your research you should use these pilot programs instead of the OA Fund. Researchers can visit https://guides.libraries.indiana.edu/OApublishing for more information or contact Willa Tavernier at wtavern@iu.edu.
The Open Access Article Publishing Fund is designed to support an alternative means of disseminating the results of academic research, dispensing with cost barriers and use restrictions for readers.
This is a pilot program for three academic years. At that time, the program will be reviewed and an open access set of papers will be written about the effectiveness of the program in order to evaluate its merit for the IU research community.
Eligibility
- IU Bloomington tenured, tenure-eligible, and non-tenure-track faculty, research scientists, research scholars, research center directors, and librarians.
- Applicants must seek departmental/school/college or grant funding first to be eligible for the program. Where research is funded, applicants will be required to confirm whether the funding has expired, or if journal article processing charges are not an allowable expense.
- Applicants must not have paid the Publisher already, payment will come directly from IU Libraries, no reimbursements will be made.
- Applicants may be successfully funded by the program only once per academic year.
- Applicants may apply at any point in the publishing process. Articles accepted for publication up to one year prior to the funding request are eligible.
- To be eligible, a journal must be a reputable peer-reviewed scholarly journal.
- Reputable open access journals are expected to meet one of the following criteria:
- listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
- a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or adherence to its Code of Conduct.
- a publisher that Indiana University Bloomington believes is taking a sustainable and affordable approach to open access publishing. These will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and may include publishers such as scholarly societies, non-profit publishers, and publishers with a track record of or demonstrated commitment to responsible open access publishing.
- To be eligible, a journal must provide immediate, unfettered access to all peer-reviewed articles. In other words, journals with a hybrid open access model (some articles in the journal are open, some are not) or delayed open access model (articles become open after an embargo period) are not eligible.
Funding
- The program will subsidize 100% of the cost of an article processing charge, up to $2000 per article per author per year.
- In the case of an article with multiple authors, each author is responsible for a prorated portion of any publishing fees. For example, for an article with three authors that is to appear in a journal with a $3,000 publication fee, each author is responsible for $1,000 of that fee. If two of the authors are from IU, each will be awarded $1,000. The award is automatically made to all IU authors even if only 1 author applies.
- Funds are divided by total faculty and multiplied by IU Faculty. Student authors are not included.
- Example: 8 authors- 4 IU faculty, 2 external faculty, 2 student authors
($2000/6 total faculty)x4 IU faculty; no student authors in equation.
- Example: 8 authors- 4 IU faculty, 2 external faculty, 2 student authors
- Funds apply to publication and processing fees for open access scholarly, peer-reviewed articles.
- Applicants must not have paid the Publisher already, payment will come directly from IU Libraries, no reimbursements will be made.
- All grants from the fund will be made public.
- Applicants awarded funds must deposit copies of their articles in the IU Bloomington open access repository managed by the IU Libraries and complete a short assessment survey.
Application requirements
Application components include:
- Brief explanation of why you are seeking funding to publish your manuscript in an open access journal
- Name of journal to which article is being submitted
- Names of all authors and their affiliation.
- Total charges for open access publication and total amount requested. The maximum dollar amount that the fund will pay for a single article is $2,000.
- Applicants must seek departmental/school/college or grant funding first to be eligible for the program. Where research is funded, applicants will be required to confirm whether the funding has expired or if article processing charges are not an allowable expense.
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