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2 | Sponsor | Value | Current Status | Date Established | Who is Eligible? | What is Eligible? | Reimbursement Levels | # Articles Approved | # Articles Reimbursed | # Unique Submitting Authors | # Unique Departments | # Unique Journals | # Unique Publishers | Data Last Updated | Notes | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Arizona State University | $30,000 | Active | May, 2023 | The applicant must be a current ASU affiliate, for whom ASU is their home institution. Manuscripts accepted within 365 days of an ASU student’s graduation or postdoctoral fellow’s separation from ASU are also eligible, provided that the work was submitted to the publisher when the former student or fellow was still affiliated with ASU. | The journal must either be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals or be listed by Scimago as a first or second quartile (Q1 or Q2) journal in their field. If you have questions about journal eligibility, contact us. Fees charged by publishers and journals with whom the ASU Library already has arranged for open access publishing discounts are not eligible for reimbursement. See a list of ASU Library's open access partnerships below. Publications must be made available without any embargo period. | The maximum award amount is $1,500. | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
4 | Boston College University Libraries | No set amount | Active | February, 2014 | All Boston College faculty, researchers and currently enrolled students are eligible to apply for funding. | Peer-reviewed articles published in fully open access journals and accessible immediately on publication are eligible. The Directory of Open Access Journals and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association will be used to vet the journals’ quality and open access credentials, as will articles in the academic press about predatory practices. "Hybrid" open access journals, are not eligible. | -- Authors who have external funding which can be used for publishing fees are not eligible. -- The annual funding limit for each author will be $3000. -- Authors who receive OA funding must also deposit the article in eScholarship@BC. | 186 | 104 | 120 | 37 | 123 | 60 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
5 | California State University, East Bay Libraries | $15,000 | Active | Fall, 2021 | Current Cal State East Bay faculty, staff, and student | The University Libraries will only provide funds for articles that meet the following criteria: -- Published in an entirely open access journal. Hybrid journals or delayed open access models are not accepted; -- The journal's Open Access policy and fees are posted online; -- The journal is listed in the Directory of the Open Access Journals (DOAJ) or follows best practices for scholarly publishing as identified by DOAJ. | This program is funded by the University Libraries. The Library provides a maximum of $3,000 per article and author, per fiscal year | 12 | 12 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | California State University, Fullerton Library | $27,500 | Active | 2015 | Eligible applicants must have a current, official affiliation with California State University, Fullerton, whether as faculty (emeriti, tenured, tenure-track, lecturer, or adjunct), or as an enrolled student. | To be eligible, the journal must be peer-reviewed and fully open access as indicated by external indexes such as Ulrich’s, the Directory of Open Access Journals, and/or Cabell’s. Hybrid journals, which charge subscriptions and supplemental open access fees, and often user access fees as well, are not eligible. Funds cannot cover fees for submission, pages/plates/graphics, editing/typesetting, embargoes, or donations. | The fund does not cover full or partial costs of APCs when authors from institutions other than CSUF receive majority authorship credit. Funds are limited to $1500 per article and $1500 per CSUF author every two academic years. Authors with external grant or contract funds available to cover APCs are asked not to apply; we endeavor to reserve these internal funds for those without external grant support for APCs. | 74 | 72 | 63 | 21 | 56 | 28 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
7 | California State University, Los Angeles Library | Active | 2022 | Current Cal State LA tenure-track & tenured faculty members, Emeriti faculty, lecturers, staff, and students are eligible to receive funds. | Funding is available for recently accepted peer-reviewed articles in completely open access journals that charge a publication fee associated with the cost of making an article freely available. Hybrid journal fees are currently not eligible for funding. See the question “What is a hybrid journal?” for more information on hybrid journals. Eligible journals must be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) or follow best practices in scholarly publishing, as identified by DOAJ. Journals must also make their fee schedule publicly available online. | n author may receive a maximum of $1,500 from this fund per fiscal year (July - June). If there are multiple Cal State LA authors on one paper, the maximum funding for the paper will be $3000. Total funds granted per paper shall not exceed the total cost of the article processing charges. | 6/30/2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Carleton Library/Office of the Vice President (Research & International) | $50,000 in combined contributions from the Library and the Office of VP Research; the Library has committed an additional $25,000 as of summer, 2015 | Active | May 1, 20012 | All Carleton University faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students and full-time professional staff who are named as an author of a research article and who have the lead responsibility for submitting this article to a peer-reviewed Open Access journal or conference proceedings are eligible to apply for funding. Funding will not be made available if any of the authors of the article are eligible for complete reimbursement of the article processing fees for this article through grants from a foundation, granting agency, or other institutions including Carleton. | Articles accepted for publication after March 1, 2012 are eligible for this program. These must be peer-reviewed articles that have been accepted for publication in journals which are fully "Open Access". That is, all of the content of the entire journal is freely and globally available online immediately upon payment of the article processing fee, with minimal or limited copyright restrictions. Open Access articles are freely available for redistribution and reuse which means that anyone who has access to the internet may read, download, copy and distribute that article. In addition, to be eligible, authors must be publishing in a journal which: --is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals --is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or adhere to its Code of Conduct -- has a publicly available standard fee schedule -- has a policy to substantially waive fees in case of economic hardship | $2500 per article for fully Open Access journals and a cap on any one author of $5000 per year. | 327 | 327 | 194 | 56 | 202 | 73 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
9 | Clemson University Libraries | $50,000 in FY 2023, $35,000 from the libraries and $15,000 from the Office of Research | Active | 2016 | Clemson faculty, adjunct faculty, researchers, post-docs, Emeritus faculty, and graduate students in all disciplines are eligible to apply (must have an active yourname@clemson.edu email). | Funds may be used to cover publication fees, submission fees, or illustration fees. Only reputable and fully open access publications will be eligible for funding. Hybrid journals are excluded. “Reputability” will be determined by the Libraries in consultation with the applicant, the Directory of Open Access Journals, and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. | The maximum award is $1,500. | 174 | 6/30/2023 | Updates for the 2023-24 fiscal year: The fund is no longer following a first come first served competitive model with 2-3 monthly awards. This will enable the fund to be equitably distributed throughout the fiscal year. For more information please see these slides from a presentation at the 2023 Research Symposium. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Cornell University Library | $50,000, with support from the Provost’s Office | Active | September, 2009 | Available to any non-tenured faculty, academic staff, or student author affiliated with Cornell’s Ithaca campus | Publication and processing fees for scholarly peer-reviewed articles in open-access journals meeting these requirements: * Listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals * Member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or adherent to its Code of Conduct * Provide unfettered access to all peer-reviewed articles (journals with a hybrid open-access model or delayed open-access model are not eligible) * Publicly available standard article fee schedule. * Policy to waive fees in case of economic hardship. COAP funds may also be applied to publication and processing fees for book chapters and books. | - Articles for which alternate publication funding is available are not eligible for COAP funds. This includes articles whose research was funded by grants or gifts that allow grant funds to be used for article processing fees (regardless of whether that particular grant had budgeted for such fees). - Reimbursement cap for a single article is $3,000. - Authors may receive reimbursement for up to $3,000 per year for all submission and publication charges. - Multiple Authorship: 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 Cornellians, each may enter an application for $1,000. If both apply, $2,000 will be sent to the journal. If the journal has a $6,000 publication fee, the $3,000 per article cap will apply and each Cornell author may only apply for $1,000. | 274 | 274 | 210 | 72 | 123 | 32 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
11 | Emory University Libraries | $55,000 | Active | September 1, 2012 | Emory University faculty, post-docs, researchers and currently enrolled graduate and undergraduate students are eligible to apply for funds for open access fees for articles and books connected with their research activities at Emory. Preference is given to authors who have not been previously funded. In the case of an article or book with multiple authors, each author is responsible for a prorated portion of any publishing fees. Due to limited funds, any given author is limited to one fund reimbursement per fiscal year. | The article or book must be published with an open access publisher that does not charge readers or institutions for access to the publication. To be eligible, journal publishers must be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and book publishers may be listed in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). Also, a publisher must be a member of Open Access Scholarly Publisher's Association (OASPA) or meet its Code of Conduct. Journals or books with a hybrid model (some content by fee and some content open access) or delayed open access are not eligible for this fund. Articles and books must be fully available open access at the time of publication. | Open access publishing funds are awarded on a first come, first serve basis to a maximum reimbursement of $1,500.00 per article or book. Funds may be used for open access publishing and processing fees, including open access page charges. Funds may not be used for reprints, color illustration fees, non-OA page charges, permissions fees, web hosting for self-archiving, or other expenses not directly related to open access fees. Articles or books for which alternative funding is available are not eligible for reimbursement from this fund. | 419 | 300 | 538 | 96 | 357 | 91 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
12 | Furman University Libraries | Open-ended with $48,863 disbursed since October 2016 | Active | October 2016 | Furman University faculty, adjunct faculty, researchers, post-docs, staff and students in all disciplines are eligible to apply. | Only peer-reviewed, fully open access works published in reputable titles are eligible. “Reputability” will be determined by the Furman University Libraries in consultation with the applicant, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, the Directory of Open Access Journals, and/or the Directory of Open Access Books. | - Funding will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis up until the funding for a given year is exhausted. - In an academic year, an author can receive maximum reimbursements of $1,000. Unused funds cannot be rolled over to future years. - In the case of cross-institutional co-authors, fees are pro-rated. The fee will be divided equally among all authors up to the $1,000 caps. - The maximum reimbursement for any single article is $1,000. - Funds may cover publication fees, submission fees, or illustration fees. | 38 | 38 | 32 | 11 | 33 | 22 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
13 | Hope College | No set amount | Active | Fall 2016 | Current Hope College faculty | This fund may only be used to offset author fees for article publication in an open access journal/monograph. Hybrid journals are not eligible. | $1500 per article/manuscript | 30 | 26 | 23 | 9 | 24 | 12 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
14 | James Madison University Libraries and the Office of Research & Scholarship | $24,000 | Active | August, 2022 | Any current JMU faculty or staff member. | - Scholarly and creative works must be peer reviewed or invited for publication with editorial review. - The journal’s publisher must be a member of the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) or the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), or comply with a similar Code of Conduct. - OA journals should be registered in an open access directory such as the Directory of Open Access Journals or Sherpa/Romeo. - Articles published in “mirror” journals are not eligible for funding. - Costs for reprints, color illustration fees, art fees, non-open access page charges, administrative charges, book subventions, or other fees are not eligible. - Scholarly and creative works must be made freely available online at the time of publication, with no embargo period. - Authors must retain copyright. - Scholarly and creative works must be openly licensed, with a Creative Commons license or similar. | - May apply for maximum funding of $2,400 per article, in a “Gold” (non-subscription-based) open access journal. - May apply for maximum funding of $1,200 per article, in a hybrid open access journal. Hybrid journals are subscription journals that allow individual articles to be made open access for an additional fee. Funding for hybrid journals is reduced due to existing subscription fees collected by the journal and may be eliminated based on assessment of this funding program after its pilot phase. - An individual may not receive more than $4,000 from this fund per fiscal year (July – June). In the case of multiple JMU authors on a single publication, the funding allowance will be split among them to allow for prorating the $4000 individual max. - Must use external grant funding, if available, before seeking open access funding through the Libraries. Authors are strongly encouraged to write costs of open access dissemination into future proposals for sponsored research. | 16 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
15 | Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) | $30,000 | Active | October 15, 2018 | Faculty, students, and staff who wish to publish in Open Access (OA) journals | The journal must have one or more of the following: a listing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA); or adherence to the OASPA Code of Conduct. Additionally, journals must use DOIs as permanent identifiers; have International Standard Serial Numbers; deposit content with a long-term digital preservation or archiving program; allow generous reuse in accordance with a CC BY, CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC license; have a deposit policy registered with a deposit policy registry; have a standard article fee schedule publicly posted; and have a policy to waive fees in cases of economic hardship. Hybrid publications that make some articles free while charging subscriptions for others are ineligible for funding. | -- The maximum support Jefferson will provide is $2,500 per article or $2,500 per author for the 2018 academic year -- The amount is based on the number of contributing authors to the article. For example: If a paper has two authors, and one is from an outside institution, with an APC of $1,000, Jefferson would cover $500 of the cost.) -- Funds will be provided on a first-come, first-approved basis | 255 | 253 | 215 | 85 | 189 | 84 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
16 | Louisiana State University Libraries | $30,000 | Active | January, 2018 | 6/30/2022 | Peer-reviewed articles submitted to an open access journal yet not already published are eligible. Journals must meet the following criteria: - Be an entirely open access journal that provides unfettered access to all peer-reviewed articles. Journals with a hybrid or delayed open access model are not eligible. - Be published by a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association OR adhere to its Code of Conduct. - Have a standard article fee schedule publicly posted. - Be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Exceptions to a DOAJ listing may be made if the journal meets other criteria and the OA fund reviewers verify journal credibility. LSU Libraries will upload the published version of each funded article to LSU Digital Commons, LSU's institutional repository. | Funds may be used to pay article processing charges up to $1,500 per article. Color, page, or image charges are not eligible. A requesting author may be awarded funding once a calendar year. | 90 | 50 | 88 | 41 | 58 | 20 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
17 | MIT Libraries | Pilot funding for FY2011 | Active | Open to current MIT affiliates: This includes faculty, research scientists, postdocs, graduate students, staff, and other authors currently affiliated with MIT. | Open-access journals that: * Are peer reviewed * Are listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals * Have policies and practices consistent with the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Code of Conduct * Make their standard fee schedules publicly accessible * Waive their fees in cases of financial hardship Articles in journals that charge an annual subscription fee, including journals that use a delayed open-access model, or offer an “open choice” option to make a particular article open access are not eligible. Articles reporting on research that was supported by funders that allow research funds to be used for publication fees (e.g. NIH) are not eligible for this funding, whether or not publication costs were specifically included in the grant. This fund is intended to be a last resort for use when no alternative source of funding is available. | The subsidy is limited to $1,000 per article, regardless of the number of authors. | 338 | not tracked | 215 | 55 | 133 | 42 | 6/30/2023 | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | Portland State University Library | $15,000 for 2021-2024 | Active | September, 2017 | PSU faculty who are the sole, primary, lead, or corresponding author of the work are eligible to receive funds. Works written by postdoctoral and graduate student sole, lead, primary, or corresponding authors will be accepted as long as the work is supported by the department or student advisor. Adjunct faculty & emeritus faculty are generally not accepted for funding. Adjuncts must receive funding for APCs through their union on campus Research must be unfunded, or funded under the amount of $15,000. For example, grants that allow payment of APCs for funded research are ineligible. | - Funded articles/chapters must be published in fully open access journals or fully open access books, with articles publicly available at the time of publication. - Journals and Books must have their fee schedule publicly available online. - Journals and Books must meet the following criteria: --The publisher is compliant with the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association’s Code of Conduct. -- The journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Directory of Open Access Books or meets DOAJ/DOAB selection criteria. - Hybrid journals and books are ineligible (journals/books that charge subscriptions or payment and also enable specific articles/chapters to be made Open Access via author payment). Compliance will be confirmed as part of the application review. | The maximum reimbursement amount of support is $3,000 for a single article, book chapter, or book. The author is responsible for either negotiating down or paying any amount over $3,000. Additional funding can be applied as needed, for example, from an IPDA (individual professional development accounts provided to ranked faculty). Articles, book chapters, and books will be supported on a first-come, first-served basis until funds are expended. Funded awards must be expended within the 12 month fiscal year (July–June) requested. No more than two requests will be processed for the same author within a given fiscal year (July-June). Once approved for publication and funding, the author should direct the journal/publisher to send the invoice to the Library for payment. | 86 | 54 | 66 | 31 | 60 | 16 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
19 | Simon Fraser University Library | $50,000 annually | Active | January, 2010 | SFU authors who are faculty, staff or graduate students are eligible to use the Central fund. Undergraduate students working under the supervision of a faculty member are also eligible. | Eligible journals will be those in the Directory of Open Access Journals, or those whose editorial policies meet the criteria for inclusion in DOAJ. The fund will also cover article processing charges for book chapters, provided the entire publication is open access. The fund does not cover optional article processing charges from hybrid journals. The fund does not cover additional charges such as for including color plates, long articles, submission fees, or excess page charges. | It is anticipated that SFU authors will include OA publishing charges in grant applications where they are eligible, and will first use such funds before applying for reimbursement from the central OA fund. The Library will work with the Office of Research Services to raise awareness of grant eligibility for OA fees and funder mandates. The amount each SFU author may claim during one fiscal year is limited to $10,000. | 1232 | 1232 | 692 | 36 | 387 | 90 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
20 | Texas Christian University | Active | 2021 | All current TCU students and currently employed faculty and staff may apply for funding. | Journals must meet two eligibility criteria. The first criterion for approval is that the journal must provide free access to all its published content via the Internet immediately upon publication. Excluded from this program is any journal that either delays online publication of articles or that is open access for only a portion of its content (commonly called a “hybrid” OA journal). The second criterion relates to quality control. In all cases, the article must undergo peer review. The library recognizes that there exist open access journals that exercise no quality control, or solely exist to scam potential authors. Such “predatory” journals are specifically excluded from this program. Journals must be part of the Directory of Open Access Journals (https://doaj.org) to show eligibility, in addition to all other criteria in this document. | For each work, the funding may not exceed $3,000. If there are multiple authors for a work, then the corresponding author applies on behalf of all authors for a particular work. The corresponding author must be a current TCU student or currently employed faculty or staff member. Each corresponding author may be approved for funding a maximum of two times in a fiscal year. | 6/30/2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Tufts University | $30,000 | Active | 2014 | The Tisch Library fund is available to the Schools of Arts & Sciences and Engineering: undergraduate students; graduate students; School of Arts & Sciences tenure-stream faculty members or full-time Professors of the Practice; School of Engineering tenure-stream faculty members or full-time Professors of the Practice; post-docs; non-tenure stream faculty members; and staff members. | Articles published in journals that are 100% open access (i.e. "true" open access journals). Open access monographs and book chapters in fully open volumes will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Articles published in hybrid journals (where some articles are OA and some articles require a subscription) and book chapters published in hybrid books (where some chapters are OA and some require a purchase to read) are not eligible for this fund. | 100% of the open access author fee in fully OA journals up to $3000 or up to $5000 for an open access monograph or book chapter. Reimbursement will cover only direct costs for open access publication (not the cost of reprints, color illustration fees, non-OA page charges, web hosting for self-archiving, etc.). | 22 | 17 | 20 | 8 | 19 | 13 | 6/30/2023 | Data from 7/1/21 forward. Earlier data unavailable. | |||||||||||||||||
22 | UC Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (co-sponsored by UC Berkeley's Vice Chancellor for Research and the University Librarian) | $54,000; an additional $44,000 in funding was added in September, 2014 | Active | January 21, 2008 | UC Berkeley faculty members, post-docs, and graduate students | BRII will provide funding to pay Berkeley authors’ OA article processing charges (APCs), or OA scholarly book (monograph) or chapter subvention fee. - Articles must be made freely available at the time of initial publication. No embargo periods. - Article may be published in any open access publication, - Hybrid journals offering a paid access option are not eligible as of September, 2014. | - Maximum reimbursement of $3000 per article for fully open access publication. - Maximum reimbursement of $1500 per article for hybrid journals that provide authors with an open access option. ‐ Authors must stipulate that they have no other available funding (e.g., grants) before turning to the Fund. - Authors are limited to $6,000 in BRI funds each year. - BRII will fund up to $2500 for OA journal articles or chapters within OA scholarly books. - BRII will offer $7500 apiece in publishing fees for up to three OA scholarly books. | 544 | 485 | 405 | 170 | 271 | 132 | 6/30/2023 | Additionally, the fund has supported 16 monographs since 2018. | |||||||||||||||||
23 | University of Arkansas Libraries | Undisclosed | Active | Summer 2021 | The applicant must be a faculty member, staff member, or student affiliated with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. | - The work must be open access immediately upon publication and remain permanently open access (An article may appear in either a hybrid or a fully open access journal, as long as the article itself is immediately and permanently open access). - The work must be published under any version of a Creative Commons (CC) License. For more information, please refer to the Creative Commons Licenses Library Guide. - A copy of the published work must be submitted to the ScholarWorks@UARK repository. | Award recipients have three options. - Recipients may pay the open access publishing fee themselves and receive reimbursement (up to $2000). - Recipients may request that their department pay the open access publishing fee, in which case the department account will receive reimbursement (up to $2000). Note that this option may not be available in every department. Please check with your department chair. - The open access publishing fee (up to $2000) is paid directly to the publisher on behalf of the author. | 69 | 69 | 59 | 28 | 61 | 19 | 6/30/2023 | The author or co-authors must not have another source of funding (e.g., federal research award, foundation grant) that covers publication charges. | |||||||||||||||||
24 | University of Colorado Boulder Libraries | The fund was instituted as a pilot in 2012 with an initial $20,000. An additional $34,000 has been added to the fund since then. | Active | September, 2012 | Current CU-Boulder faculty, staff, and students may request funding up to $2,000 per year to pay for article-processing or publishing fees for full open access journals. | Any journal that provides free, immediate, online access to the full text of all research articles and follows accepted best practices for open access publishing is eligible. This includes, but is not limited to, journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. At a minimum, journals must be compliant with the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association’s Code of Conduct. “Hybrid” open access journals that provide free online access for only some articles will not be eligible for funding. | This fund supports open access to research articles where publication fees are not covered by grants or other funding sources. Authors are encouraged to include publication fees in grant requests whenever possible. Funding is limited to $2,000 per article regardless of the number of authors. | 386 | 386 | 298 | 48 | 152 | 48 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
25 | University of Georgia Libraries | Active | 2022 | Any graduate student enrolled in a degree-granting graduate program (full or part-time) at the University of Georgia is eligible to apply for funding. | Funding is for journal article publications that will be published as Open Access (free and immediate publication). Peer-reviewed or otherwise high quality academic or creative journal. The applicant may consult key the Open Access journal resource, The Directory of Open Access Journals. Journals with predatory practices are not eligible for funding. Predatory means aggressive and high-pressure solicitation of student content for publication, lack of clear publication policies, and unreasonably high-priced APCs. | Not stated | 6/30/2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | University of Idaho Library | During FY 2023, the U of I Library, Office of the Provost, Office of Research and Economic Development, and David and Julie Levine have partnered and allocated a combined total of $35,000. | Active | July, 2018 | Current U of I faculty, staff, researchers, and enrolled students are eligible to apply for the OAPF. Funding per author is capped at $3000.00 per fiscal year. Authors may apply for funding multiple times until their cap is met or funds are exhausted. | Journals must ust be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), utlize peer review, and make articles fully open upon publication. Publishers must be members of, or comply with, the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA). Hybrid journals are ineligible for funding. Open access membership fees, such as PeerJ Memberships, will be considered on a case-by-case basis if other eligibility requirements are met. | Funding per article is capped at $2000. Funding per author is capped at $3000 per fiscal year. Multi-authored works with more than one U of I author will be prorated by dividing the total requested article processing charges (APCs), up to the $2,000 per article maximum, by the number of eligible U of I authors. | 125 | 125 | 82 | 26 | 83 | 21 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
27 | University of Kansas Libraries | $50,000, with support from the University of Kansas Provost, The University of Kansas Medical Center Executive Vice Chancellor, and the Offices of Research at The University of Kansas and University of Kansas Medical Center | Active | October, 2012 | Faculty, graduate students, post-docs, and staff on the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses during year one. | Submitted-for-publication or accepted-for-publication peer-reviewed articles in open access journals. An "open access journal" is a journal listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals and published by a publisher who holds membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publisher's Association. Subscription-based journals that charge additional fees to provide open access to articles (hybrid journals) will not be considered for funding in year one. | Funding covers costs of article processing fees only (no page or color charges), up to $2000 per article. Funds will not be encumbered for articles that are still being written. Already-published articles are ineligible. | 322 | 217 | 448 | 122 | 353 | 108 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
28 | University of Maryland Libraries | $25,000 | Active | September, 2013 | Any UMD faculty member, post-doctoral researcher, or currently enrolled graduate or undergraduate student whose article has been accepted may apply for funding. | Funds are available for open access journals, which are journals that do not charge a fee for institutions, libraries or readers for access to the content, and do not have an embargo period for access. This includes: - All journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals that allow authors to retain distribution rights - Members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) or demonstrate its adherence to the Code of Conduct - Journals that have publicly available a standard article fee schedule - Journals that have a policy to substantially waive fees in case of economic hardship | Article cap – maximum funding per article is $3000; Author cap – one funded article per fiscal year | 267 | 253 | 216 | 45 | 120 | 38 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
29 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | $20,000 for FY'23, increasing to $25,000 for FY'24 | Active | July, 2014 | UMass Amherst faculty, staff or student who is the corresponding or primary author. Faculty (including Emeriti), staff and students are eligible if the research was completed while they were still affiliated with the university; corresponding or primary author; must have an ORCID iD. | Accepted or published, peer-reviewed manuscript within 12 months prior to application; APC invoice paid; journal or book must be fully open access and listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)/Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). If the journal or book is too new to be listed in either directory, the publication must be completely DOAJ/DOAB compliant. | Funding is available annually for any one author up to $3000. Funding is available for any one paper up to a maximum of $3000. Support for non-UMA collaboratively authored papers will be available on a prorated basis. All works will be deposited on UMA Amherst ScholarWorks. | 96 | 94 | 80 | 36 | 61 | 29 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
30 | University of Mississippi Libraries | Active | 2019 | The fund is open to all University of Mississippi students, faculty, and staff. Awarded funding is at the discretion of the OA Fund committee. | To qualify for the UM Libraries’ OA Fund, the journal must be either listed in the DOAJ or meet the criteria listed in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association’s Membership Criteria. The committee reserves the right to make the final decision regarding journal eligibility Articles published in "hybrid" journals, which are journals that offer an open access option but are otherwise conventional, or potentially predatory journals, which are journals that claim to be legitimate and scholarly but misrepresent their publishing practices including falsely claiming to offer peer review and hiding information about APCs, are not eligible for funding. | Successful applicants will be reimbursed between 50% and 100%. | 6/30/2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries | $30,000, through the support of the Libraries Advisory Board along with funding from the Libraries' collections budget | Active | June 2018 | With the exception of Law School faculty and students, current UNLV faculty (academic and administrative) as well as current graduate students who are co-authors with UNLV faculty are eligible. This includes tenure and tenure-track medical and dental school faculty and medical and dental residents and fellows. | This fund will support scholarly articles to be published in fully open access peer reviewed journals. The fund does not cover articles to be published in hybrid journals (where only some content is open access), books, book chapters, magazines, or other types of publications. Most successful fund applications are for journals included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (doaj.org). There are exceptions since newer journals, or established journals that have not yet applied for membership, may not be in the database. The article must be in a journal whose publisher is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), or the journal otherwise demonstrates that it adheres to the OASPA code of conduct and membership criteria, even if the publisher is not a member. | -- The maximum amount per article is $1500 and is to be used only for article processing charges. The award does not support color, image, or page charges. -- Individual authors are limited to one award per academic year (July 1 - June 30). | 128 | 99 | 130 | 37 | 112 | 34 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
32 | University of Nevada, Reno Savitt Medical Library | Active | July 2022 | Funds are available to current UNR Med faculty, post-docs, researchers, residents, fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students. The applicant must be listed as the first author of the article. Authors who have grants, contracts, or other mechanisms of support that can be applied to publication costs are not eligible. Authors are limited to one reimbursement per fiscal year. Consideration will be given to authors with limited resources to support publication costs, and first-time Open Access Fund applicants. | his funding supports only original research. Case reports, personal opinion, or perspective pieces are not eligible. Only manuscripts submitted to Open Access journals will be considered. Open access journals are those that provide free, immediate, online availability to all content without restriction. The fund does not cover fees for subscription based, hybrid open access models in which journals may charge an optional open access fee to make a specific article available after acceptance. To qualify for funding, manuscripts must be completed and ready for submission, submitted for publication, or accepted for publication. Funds cannot be applied retroactively for articles already published. | Up to a maximum of $1,500 an article | 6/30/2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | University of North Carolina Greensboro | Annual levels vary. Authors are supported through funds from the University Libraries and the Office of Research and Engagement. | Active | Fall 2011 | Full-time faculty, full-time EHRA employees, and graduate students are eligible to apply. | - The article must be published in a peer-reviewed open-access journal. | - Reimbursement will not exceed $1,500 per article. - Reimbursement will be limited to one award per fiscal-year per author. - Authors are expected to exhaust all other grant or contract funding sources available to them before applying for support from the Open Access fund. | 206 | 175 | 139 | 25 | 103 | 37 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
34 | University of Oklahoma - Norman | $20,000 annually | Active | Late 2013 | Any current University of Oklahoma-Norman regular faculty member, post-doctoral researcher, staff member or student author. Preference is given to authors who have not been previously funded. | Article-processing fees for scholarly, peer reviewed articles in true open access journals, listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Publisher must be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or adhere to its Code of Conduct. Articles with a hybrid or delayed OA model are not eligible through this fund.* The journal must have a publicly available standard article fee schedule published and should have a policy to waive fees in case of economic hardship. | Authors may receive funding up to $1,500 per fiscal year for publishing and processing fees, including open access pages charges; unused amounts will not roll over to future years. Authors agree to retain their copyright and to post a copy of their work in the University’s institutional repository, SHAREOK. | 296 | 218 | 309 | 46 | 145 | 34 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
35 | University of Ottawa Library | $50,000 for the current program (as of May 1, 2023) From 2016-2023, this amount fluctuated, averaging approximately $96,000/fisal year. | Active | 2010, modified in 2016 and in 2023. | All faculty members, staff, current graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and adjunct professors affiliated with the University of Ottawa. Researchers working for University of Ottawa Research Centres and Institutes and Affiliated Research Institutes are also eligible. To be eligible the uOttawa or affiliated researcher must be the corresponding author. | Eligible articles must be peer-reviewed and submitted for publication in fully open access journals that makes all content freely available online immediately upon publication. Eligible OA journals must be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals; be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or the Committee on Publication Ethics or adhere to their Codes of Conduct; and follow acceptable standards of scholarly publishing. We reserve the right to refuse applications from publishers deemed predatory based on established criteria. The publisher’s fee schedule must be publicly available online. Shared support funding covers only the costs associated with OA publishing. Costs for reprints, submission fees, colour illustration fees, page charges, administrative charges and other fees are not applicable. Applicants must first use funds received through research grants that are intended to cover publication or submission fees. | The Library will cover 50% of the open access publishing fee paid by the author for eligible articles. | 1220 | 961 | 367 | 50 | 238 | 72 | 6/30/2023 | Please note that the uOttawa Library's previous reporting to SPARC included statistics for the Library's institutional APC agreements with Frontiers and BMC/SpringerOpen, in addition to the Library's direct-APC support program, the Library Shared Support Fund. The statistics provided as of 6-30-2023 include historical data for the Library Shared Support Fund only. | |||||||||||||||||
36 | University of Pittsburgh Library System | No limit | Active | No limit on per-article reimbursement fees. Reimbursable article processing fees may include publication fees (charges levied on articles accepted for publication, including page charges). Eligible fees must be based on a publication’s standard fee schedule that is independent of the author’s institution. Reprint fees are not eligible. Articles for which alternative funding is available are not eligible for reimbursement. This includes articles reporting research funded by a gift or a grant from a granting agency, foundation, or other institution (including the University of Pittsburgh itself) that allows granted funds to be used for article processing fees (whether or not the particular grant had budgeted for such fees and whether or not sufficient grant funds remain) and articles funded by an institution that itself pays article processing fees on behalf of the author (such as NIH). | 408 | 408 | 226 | 20 | 37 | 20 | 6/30/2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||
37 | University of Rhode Island | $15,000, split between the Libraries and the Vice President for Research and Economic Development | Active | From 2016-2023 - uO's funding program covered 50% of the open access publishing fee paid by the author for eligible articles. | The maximum dollar amount that the URI OA Fund will reimburse for a single article is $2,000. The URI OA Fund is a limited resource intended to support open access publishing across the university. We expect researchers to request funding for open access publication from their funding agency if they can do so. These funds are intended to be a funding source of last resort and to support open access to articles whose research was not grant-funded. | 54 | 54 | 37 | 22 | 39 | 16 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||
38 | University of Tennessee, Knoxville Office of Research and the University Libraries | Initial allocation of $20,000, augmented by regular contributions from the Office of Research and Engagement and the University Libraries | Active | Funds are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis to a maximum of $3,000 per article. ‐ Authors are requested to negotiate lower publishing fees when possible. ‐Authors with grant support to cover open access publishing are requested not to apply. | 717 | 717 | 321 | 53 | 234 | 63 | 6/30/2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Utah State University Libraries | $30,000 | Active | As of May 1, 2023, eligible applications are funded at a maximum of $750, and limited to 2 grants per applicant per year. | There is no limit on the per-article reimbursement fee amount. Funds will be available on a first-come-first-served basis during the pilot phase. Funding Preference will be given to: - Those who are able to demonstrate matching funds from their department, college, or an outside granting agency. Without a match, full funding is not guaranteed. - Those who publish in fully open access journals | 267 | 216 | 175 | 32 | 111 | 39 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Virginia Tech Libraries | $50,000 for FY 2014-15, in partnership with the Office of Senior Vice President and Provost and the Office of the Vice President for Research | Active | August, 2012 | All faculty, staff, graduate, and undergraduate students are eligible. | Funds are available to underwrite article processing fees for scholarly peer-reviewed articles accepted for publication in an open access or hybrid OA journal. A journal's publisher must be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) or comply with OASPA's Code of Conduct. For fully OA journals, the journal must be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. For hybrid OA journals, the publishers must have reduced institutional subscription prices, or plan to reduce prices this next year, based on the number of open access publications in the journals. | Support is limited to $1500.00 per article and $3000.00 per author per year. For papers with multiple Virginia Tech co-authors, the program would still subsidize the same total amount of up to $1,500 per article but it would be prorated among each of the authors. Authors must have no other sources of funding available. | 1164 | 980 | 3162 | 125 | 422 | 85 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
41 | Brock University Library | $10,000 | Inactive | October, 2011 | The fund is open to Brock Faculty, Librarians, Staff, Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows. | The grant covers only the fees associated with open access publishing [costs for reprints, color illustration fees, non-open access page charges, administrative charges and other fees are not applicable.] Articles eligible for this grant are: peer-reviewed articles that have been accepted for publication in either a fully OA journal. | Up to $2,500 per article. Authors must affirm that they have not received funding or have received insufficient funding to cover OA dissemination costs. Each eligible applicant is entitled to one grant. | 141 | 118 | 123 | 18 | 80 | 29 | 6/30/2023 | The fund closed in May 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
42 | Colorado State University Libraries | $45,000 annually | Inactive | December, 2012 | CSU tenured/tenure track faculty | Journals should be listed in the DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals (www.doaj.org) and must NOT be listed on Beall’s List of Predatory Open Access Publishers (scholarlyoa.com/publishers). In cases where a journal does not meet these criteria, authors will be asked to briefly explain why the journal is an appropriate venue, given one’s discipline. Within six months of publication, the author must deposit the article into CSU’s digital repository | Authors will be eligible for up to $2,000 of support per year for one article. Authors publishing in a journal that provides authors with an open access article option (“hybrid”) will be eligible for up to $1,250 per year for one article. | 262 | 126 | 253 | 35 | 160 | 62 | 6/30/2023 | Discontinued after the 2021-22 academic year. | |||||||||||||||||
43 | Northwestern University Library | $50,000 | Inactive | October, 2013 | Faculty members, post-doc researchers, graduate or professional students and any staff who are authors of articles accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed, open access publication. Open to current graduate and undergraduate Northwestern students, as well as recent graduates up to six months post-graduation (Research must have been conducted while at Northwestern). | Articles accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals. Publication will be supported in any peer-reviewed journal that is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, or whose publisher is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association and is published in a fully open access format based on a published schedule of article processing fees. Hybrid publication model is not supported. The fund supports article processing fees or publishing fees. The fund does not cover submission fees or personal or institutional subscriptions or sponsorships. | The fund will provide $3,000 per Northwestern researcher per year. As funds allow, exceptions will be considered for requests above this annual cap. For intramural collaborations, each author will be responsible for a prorated portion up to a total per-article cap of $3,000. | 424 | 424 | 367 | 74 | 229 | 58 | 6/30/2023 | Northwestern Librarry sunsetted the APC fund as of July 31, 2023, hoping to support more consortial open access efforts and read and publish agreements. | |||||||||||||||||
44 | University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee | Undisclosed | Inactive | 2012 | All UWM authors, including students | The UOAP Fund will cover the cost of author submission fees in fully open access peer-reviewed journals as defined by inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals. | Funding support will cover: - 50%, up to $1,000 per article, for publishing in a fully open access journal. - In the case of an article with multiple authors, the article is treated as a whole regardless of how many authors are from UWM. - The most that the UOAP Fund will support for a single article is $1,000. - Authors may receive funding for up to $1,000 per year for all submissions and publication charges. | 142 | 142 | 113 | 30 | 99 | 40 | 6/30/2023 | The Fund closed in June 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
45 | Memorial University Libraries | $199,000 in 2016/17. Values are in Canadian dollars. This funding covers both OA memberships and APCs. | Active | Summer, 2011 | All Memorial, faculty, graduate students, staff, post-docs, emeriti, and honorary research profs who have had a peer-reviewed article accepted to an Open Access journal that meets the funding criteria. Where an article has multiple authors, at least one of these authors must be a Memorial affiliated researcher. | The fund will cover Author Processing Charges (also called author’s fees or page fees) for articles that have been accepted to “gold” open access journals that meet the following criteria: a) Journal content is peer-reviewed. b) Journal does not charge subscription fees for any of its content. All articles are immediately available online at no cost to the reader. c) Author retains copyright over his or her work. (e.g. The journal uses Creative Commons licensing or similar.) A copy of the funded paper will also be made available through the Memorial University Research Repository within a year of initial publication. The fund will not cover open access author's fees in gated or hybrid journals. | Memorial Libraries will fund a maximum of $3000 per year for each researcher. Researchers with no other funding source to cover APCs will be given priority over those with research funding available for this purpose. | 246 | 245 | 204 | 35 | 137 | 34 | 12/31/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
46 | Mount Royal University Library | $15,000 (Canadian) | Active | January, 2016 | Primary author must be affiliated with the university. Open to tenured, tenurable, or contract faculty members, full-time administrators or staff, and undergraduate students. | Article processing charges (APCs) for articles published in peer-reviewed journals that - use a full open access publishing model (no hybrid journals) - are listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - make their OA fees publicly available on their website - Make the open access version immediately available upon publication The focus in article manuscripts, but we consider other OA scholarly publications (e.g., books/chapters) on a case-by-case basis. | Cap of $3,000 (Canadian) per person per year. Unused amounts do not rollover. | 39 | 36 | 23 | 11 | 32 | 19 | 12/31/2022 | Recorded number of publications approved and reimbursed includes books/chapters. | |||||||||||||||||
47 | California State University, Fresno Library | $7,000-10,000 | Inactive | September, 2019 | Fresno State faculty and graduate students. | Peer-reviewed articles published in Open Access or hybrid journals. | Up to $2000 per author per year. Up to $2000 per article in fully OA journals. 50% of APC up to $1500 per article in hybrid journals. | 17 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 16 | 9 | 10/22/2022 | Discontinued after the 2021-22 academic year. | |||||||||||||||||
48 | 6/30/2023 | $30,000 | Active | 2015 | The fund is available to Faculty and Graduate Students who have submitted their articles to fully Open Access Journals and have been unable to secure funding elsewhere. | For a journal to be eligible, it must meet the following criteria: - Peer reviewedIndexed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), or published by a reputable OA publisher - Have policies and practices consistent with the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Code of Conduct - Make their standard fee schedules publicly accessible - Waive their fees in cases of financial hardship - Hybrid journals, or journals that have both open access articles and paid subscriptions will not be funded | Funds are limited to $1000 per article, and one article per year submitted by a faculty member. | 154 | 154 | 116 | 21 | 96 | 44 | 10/1/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
49 | University of Denver Libraries | $50,000, with support from the Provost's Office | Active | October, 2021 | Current DU faculty, staff, and students. | Journals must be fully Open Access and compliant with the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Code of Conduct, or be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. “Hybrid” journals, where some articles are open and others are not, are not eligible. Our Open Access guide provides some explanation of these models. | Applicants are eligible for up to $3,000 per year until pilot funds are spent. Funding is intended to support Open Access to research articles where publication fees are not covered by grants or other funding sources. | 19 | 19 | 19 | 7 | 19 | 12 | 10/1/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
50 | Wake Forest University Z. Smith Reynolds Library | No set amount | Active | Early 2008 | Open to Reynolda campus faculty members only; Wake Health faculty are not eligible. Faculty with external research funding to support publication costs are not eligible. | -- Eligible publications are defined as peer-reviewed journal articles, books, or book chapters -- Articles must be published in OA journals; subscription journals that offer open options on an article-by-article basis for an additional fee, sometimes known as hybrid journals, are not eligible -- OA journals musts be listed in the DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals or the publisher must be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association -- Additional evaluative criteria may be applied to assess journals or publishers as necessary (e.g., for new publications) -- Publications must be made available immediately upon publication – no embargo period is allowed, and author(s) must retain copyright | ‐ No limit on size of request faculty can make. | 134 | 132 | 82 | 23 | 91 | 35 | 6/30/2022 | This includes 1 book and 1 book chapter | |||||||||||||||||
51 | Duke University Libraries, Duke University School of Medicine, and the Office of the Provost | $35,000 | Inactive | September, 2010 | Duke faculty members, post-doc researchers, and graduate or professional students | Articles accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed, open access publication, as determined by: * Listing in the Directory of Open Access Journals * Membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association * Have policies and practices consistent with the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Code of Conduct Only journals that are fully open access based on a published schedule of article processing fees are eligible. The fund cannot be used to support “hybrid” open access publishing, where individual articles from journals that are generally subscription access only are made openly available when author fees are paid. Only journals that do not charge readers or institutions for access to peer-reviewed content are eligible. | Individual authors may receive a maximum of $3,000 reimbursement of article processing fees in an academic year, with a maximum per-article reimbursement of $2,000. Unused funds do not roll over to future years. When there are multiple eligible Duke authors for an article, each author is responsible for a prorated portion of article processing fees and can be reimbursed for that amount, up to the annual cap. Articles that are supported by a gift or grant from a foundation, institution or agency that allows granted funds to be used for article processing fees are not eligible for reimbursement from COAPE funds . | 477 | 289 | 470 | 68 | 195 | 54 | 6/30/2022 | The fund was discontinued in 2022. More details available here: https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2022/06/24/open-access-fee-fund-cope-set-to-conclude-in-summer-2022/ | |||||||||||||||||
52 | UC San Francisco | $80,000 In FY2021-22. Highest level was $170,000 in FY2020-21. | Inactive | May 2015 | Until December 2021: UCSF faculty, staff, and student corresponding authors on journal articles in open access journals, or authors of open access books or book chapters could apply for funds. Between December 2021 and the fund’s closure in April 2022, staff and students could apply for funds towards one article in an open access journal per year, and all personnel including faculty could apply for funds towards an open access book. | Publications must be made freely available at the time of initial publication. Embargo periods for open access will not be covered. OA article must be in a fully OA journal. - Journal articles must be published in a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal. - OA journals must be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. - The journal must apply policies and practices consistent with the OAPSA's Code of Conduct. - Journal articles must be published under a Creative Commons or equivalent license, and authors must be able to retain copyright. - Books must be peer-reviewed. | Open access journal articles processing charges (APCs): - Up to $2,000 per article in a full OA journal (cap was lowered to $1000 from 2020-2021 due to high demand). Open access books: - Up to $5,000 per book. A maximum of one funded article per eligible applicant per calendar year, and one application per article. Books will be funded once every two years. | 495 | 419 | 345 | 66 | 207 | 45 | 6/30/2022 | The fund was shut down in 2022 | |||||||||||||||||
53 | Carnegie Mellon University Libraries | Open-ended, with $45,131 disbursed through June, 2015 | Active | May, 2013 | Carnegie Mellon faculty, research scientists, post-docs, and graduate students are eligible if (a) they are the corresponding author on the article and (b) they have no money from funders that allow grant funds to be used for Article Processing Charges (APCs). | -- The publisher of the journal is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) or adheres to the OASPA Code of Conduct. The publisher does not appear on Beall’s List of Predatory Open Access Publishers. OR -- The journal is a hybrid journal with a publicly available policy that clearly describes the transition strategy for changing the business model from subscription to open access. To date, only hybrid journals published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) qualify for APC funding. | Maximum funding per article is $1500. Maximum funding per author per fiscal year is $3000. Unused amounts do not roll over to the next year. | 172 | 172 | 126 | 29 | 87 | 34 | 6/30/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
54 | Grand Valley State University Libraries | $35,000/yr | Active | Fall 2011 | - Applicant must be a current GVSU tenure-track, visiting, affiliate and adjunct faculty, staff, or currently registered graduate student. - Applicant must be listed as one of the authors, and article must indicate GVSU affiliation. | -Funding is available for publication fees of newly published (within the past six months), peer reviewed articles in fully open access journals. (NOTE: funding was temporarily suspended from July through October 2020 due to pandemic-related budget uncertainties.) -Hybrid journals were previously eligible for funding, but no longer qualify (in effect September 2019). Mirror journals are considered a form of hybrid journals in this context. -Costs for reprints, color illustration fees, non-open-access page fees, administrative charges, and other fees are not covered. -Journals must be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals or otherwise demonstrate similarly good publishing practices. | -Maximum of $3,000 per author per year, and/or for any single article. -If authors have external funding applicable to publishing costs, the library grant is limited to any costs not covered by the external support. -Prior to September 2019, grants were pro-rated by author. Authors at non-GVSU institutions were expected to provide a proportionate share of the total publication costs. | 148 | 140 | 130 | 36 | 121 | 41 | 6/30/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
55 | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Library | $47,000 initially, with support from the IUPUI University Library, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, IU School of Dentistry and the Robert H. McKinney School of Law; a second 2-year funding cycle of $50,000 began in mid-2015 | Active | July, 2013 | Funds are available for IUPUI faculty. | To be eligible, a journal must meet these additional requirements: • Be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (unless the journal is too new for DOAJ eligibility), • Be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or adhere to its Code of Conduct, • Have publicly available a standard article fee schedule. Journals with a hybrid open-access model or delayed open-access model are not eligible. | No cap on per-article funding. Articles for which alternative funding is available are not eligible for use of the fund. A onetime exception to this rule will be made for authors who did not include dissemination fees in the budget of the grant or contract. Articles with co-authors from other institutions will be supported at a prorated portion of the article processing fees. Authors from all IUPUI departments and schools are encouraged to apply. Although article processing fees for eligible publications will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, disbursement will be monitored to ensure diverse participation across the schools. As an added service, the IUPUI University Library will deposit a copy of funded articles in the IUPUIScholarWorks | 261 | 209 | 190 | 53 | 149 | 32 | 6/30/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
56 | Princeton University Library | $30,000 | Active | December, 2019 | Princeton faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, researchers, graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff who have no other funding sources such as research grants, departmental funding, or funding from third parties are eligible. Due to the limited funding, more consideration will be given to underrepresented groups, such as graduate students and groups from the social sciences and humanities. | Works submitted to reputable, established, and scholarly open access journals; open access book chapters in a fully open access book; and open access books are eligible. Articles in hybrid open access journals or delayed open access journals are ineligible. Additional criteria may be found here. | an individual author may be supported up to a maximum of $3,000 per year. Only the corresponding author or first author is eligible to receive funding up to the cap. Co-authors can receive the funding proportionally, depending on the number of co-authors. | 18 | 18 | 18 | 13 | 18 | 14 | 6/30/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
57 | Concordia University Libraries/Office of Research | N/A | Inactive | June, 2011 | The Fund is open to all full-time and part-time faculty members, staff, currently registered graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows affiliated with Concordia. The request for reimbursement must be made by the corresponding author of the article. | The article must be published in a fully Open Access journal. At this time, traditional subscription-based or 'hybrid' journals that offer an open access option for a fee are not eligible. Eligible Open Access journals will be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals; be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or adhere to its Code of Conduct; provide unfettered access to all peer-reviewed articles; have publicly available a standard article fee schedule; and have a policy to waive fees in the case of economic hardship. The Fund covers only the costs and fees associated with Open Access publishing. Costs for reprints, color illustration fees, non-open access page charges and other fees are not eligible for reimbursement. | The maximum amount that will be reimbursed to an author is $3000 per fiscal year from the Fund. Researchers who receive research funds that explicitly include publication or submission support will be required to use those funds before applying to the Open Access Author Fund. Fund recipients must enable the deposit of their article in Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository. | 205 | 205 | 118 | 22 | 85 | 36 | 6/30/2020 | The fund was discontinued in 2020 in favor of a model aims to support a broader range of researchers through institutional memberships offering discounts for Concordia authors. More details available at https://library.concordia.ca/research/open-access/open-access-publishing.php?guid=memberships | |||||||||||||||||
58 | Harvard University Library/Office for Scholarly Communication | $60,000 | Inactive | Fall, 2009 | Funds are available to any Harvard employee and student for articles resulting from their research activities. Faculty and others who are covered by one of the Harvard open-access policies must be in substantial compliance with the relevant open-access policy. | See the list of HOPE restrictions on eligible authors, works, and publishers and journals. | - $3000 per Harvard author, per fiscal year with no limit on number of articles reimbursed but any single award capped at $3000. - Articles with 2+ authors: HOPE reimburses Harvard affiliates for a prorated share of the fee: if an article has N co-authors, where 2 listed authors are Harvard affiliates, the reimbursement is capped at 2/N of the APC, not to exceed $3000, regardless of which of the Harvard authors submits the application. | 427 | 262 | 399 | N/A | 213 | 63 | 6/30/2020 | As of 2020, the fund is temporarily suspended due to budget constraints. | |||||||||||||||||
59 | Dartmouth College Library | N/A | Active | Fall, 2009 | Dartmouth faculty and graduate students. | Established, scholarly open access journals. Subscription-based journals that charge a fee, sometimes called an “author’s choice” or “open choice” fee, to make single articles available by open access are not eligible. In addition, eligible journals must: - Be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (www.doaj.org) - Be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or adhere to its Code of Conduct - Make their standard fee schedules publicly accessible - By policy, waive their fees in cases of financial hardship | The limit for a single payment is set at $3,000. Individuals may be supported up to $3,000 per year in journal payments, in order to make funding available to the greatest number of authors. In the case of multiple authors, an individual author’s support will be set at a prorated portion of the publication fee, which will be set by dividing the fee by the number of authors. | 175 | 175 | 131 | 18 | 116 | 34 | 6/30/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
60 | Southern Illinois University Carbondale Morris Library | $26,000 for 2014-15 | Inactive | Fall 2011 | Grants are available to faculty, including nontenure track faculty, and graduate students. | - Funding is available for open access journals that do not charge a fee for institutions, libraries or readers for access to the content, This includes: · Members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) · All journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals that allow authors to retain distribution rights · Hybrid journals that allow authors to retain distribution rights. - Journals must not have an embargo period for access. - Costs for reprints, color illustration fees, non-open access page charges, administrative charges and other fees are not applicable. | - For fully open access journals: $2000 per article and per year per author - For hybrid journals: $1500 per article and per year or 50% of the Open Access fee, whichever is less. - Articles whose underlying research was funded by grants that allow funds to be used for article-processing fees (regardless of whether that particular grant budgeted for such fees) are not eligible for funding. | 118 | 108 | 71 | 31 | 82 | 40 | 6/30/2019 | Data through June 30, 2019, at which time the Fund was discontinued | |||||||||||||||||
61 | University of Minnesota Libraries | $40,000 annually, with funds from the budget of the University Libraries and the Office of the Vice President of Research | Inactive | Spring, 2012 | Any University of Minnesota faculty, researchers, post-docs, graduate students, or staff | - Funds are available for peer-reviewed journal articles, scholarly monographs, conference proceedings, and data sets. - Funds may be used only to cover open access publication and submission fees. - Author fees for open access journals (as determined by listing in the Directory of Open Access Journals, membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, or adherence to Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Code of Conduct) will be covered in full. Author fees for “hybrid” journals will be covered up to 50%. - Funds may not be used for publications that do not make works fully openly available immediately upon publication. Authors receiving funds must deposit a copy of the publication in an approved open access repository, such as the University Digital Conservancy (the University of Minnesota’s institutional repository) or a recognized discipline repository (e.g., arXiv, AgEcon, PubMedCentral, etc.) | No limit for full OA articles. “Hybrid” journals will be covered up to 50%. | 159 | 158 | 143 | 56 | 109 | 29 | 6/30/2019 | The Fund closed in June 2019. | |||||||||||||||||
62 | University of Pennsylvania Libraries | $40,000 | Inactive | May 1, 2016 | Standing Faculty and Associated Faculty (with the exception of Visiting Faculty) of the University of Pennsylvania. | Scholarly articles that are published in open-access journals. The journals must be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals; be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or adhere to its Code of Conduct; provide unfettered access to all peer-reviewed articles; have publicly available a standard article fee schedule; and have a policy to waive fees in the case of economic hardship (some exceptions may be made to this last requirement). Publication formats other than journal articles (e.g., monographs or conference proceedings) are eligible according to the same guidelines. Publications funded by the libraries' Open Access Fund must be submitted to Penn's institutional repository, | An author may request up to $3,000 per article (or alternative publication format) and no more than $3,000 in any academic year. | 56 | 41 | 47 | 29 | 38 | Not tracked | 6/30/19 | The fund ceased operating in June, 2019. | |||||||||||||||||
63 | University of Arizona | $131,000 disbursed through June, 2016, with support from the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research and Discovery and the University Libraries | Inactive | April 2014 | UA faculty, researchers, staff, post-docs, and students | Funds may be applied to peer-reviewed articles within an open access journal. The journal must: - Be published by a member organization of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or adhere to its code of conduct. - Have a standard article fee schedule publicly posted. - Be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. We may make an exception if the journal meets other criteria and the faculty advisory board verifies its credibility. | The fund covers author charges up to $3,000 per article (when available). If the article is written with authors from other institutions, funding is prorated to cover UA authors only. We may make an exception if the primary author is from the UA. | 169 | 144 | 123 | 55 | 95 | 40 | 2/8/2019 | As of July 1, 2019, the Library’s Open Access Publishing Fund has been repurposed as an Open Access Investment Fund. | |||||||||||||||||
64 | University of Florida Provost’s Office | $120,000 | Inactive | July 1, 2010 | All University of Florida faculty, post-doctoral researchers, staff members, and students. | Publication fees in open-access journals that provide free, immediate, online access to the full text of research articles without restrictions. Eligible journals include those listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, or publishers that hold membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, and/or are compliant with the Association’s Code of Conduct. A smaller stipend will be paid for selecting a paid open access option from a hybrid publisher. | * Up to $3,000 per article will be provided to pay publication fees in open-access journals which provide free, immediate, online access to the full text of research articles without restrictions. * Up to $1,500 per article will be provided to pay for selecting a paid open access option from a hybrid publisher. * UFOAP funds are intended to support open access to research articles where publication fees are not covered by grants or other funding sources. In order to encourage inclusion of publication fees in future grant applications, articles resulting from awarded grants that allow for budgeting of article processing fees are excluded unless the grant application was submitted prior to the establishment of the UFOAP, July 1, 2010. * Funding for multi-authored articles will be prorated. If the processing fee is $3,000 and there are four UF authors, each may apply for $750. For fees exceeding the $3,000 cap per article, each UF author may apply only for his/her prorated portion not to exceed the $3,000 yearly cap for each researcher, or $1500 per article for paid-access. | 198 | 198 | 158 | 62 | 105 | 40 | 2/8/2019 | Through January 15, 2013; Fund is longer active. | |||||||||||||||||
65 | University of Michigan Library and the Office of the Provost | $30,000 | Inactive | September, 2010 | All University of Michigan faculty, post-doctoral researchers, graduate and professional students, staff members, and students. | Peer-reviewed scholarly articles that are published in open-access journals are eligible. Anyone may apply, but the Library prefers to support work: *where the author retains copyright. *which will appear in fully open journals, and is accessible immediately upon publication. *for which grant funding could not be applied to publishing costs. *that the author commits to depositing in open access repositories (e.g. Deep Blue). *for which the open access publication fee is less than $1500. | Up to $3000 per submission. However, if some requirements are not met, then a smaller portion will be provided based on the following criteria: *Retaining Rights: If you will not retain copyright or the right to distribute the work we will fund the lesser of $1000 or 50% of the publisher’s open access fee. *Publish in fully open journals: An open journal is one for which all peer-reviewed content is available freely to readers. If the work will appear in a “hybrid” journal — one for which some of the peer-reviewed work is only available to paid subscribers — we will fund the lesser of $1000 or 50% of the publisher’s fee. *Assure access is immediate upon publication: If access to the published article is not immediate we will fund the lesser of $1500 or 50% of the publisher’s fee. If the publisher will delay access longer than 12 months, we will not provide any funding. * Use grant funding wherever possible: If your grant funding could have been applied to publishing charges, we will fund the lesser of $1500 or 50% of the publisher’s fee. We will only do this once for an author/group of authors, since such fees should be included in future grant applications. | 68 | 44 | 60 | 17 | 58 | 30 | 1/29/2019 | TFund is no longer active | |||||||||||||||||
66 | UC Irvine Libraries | $15,000 | Inactive | Fall, 2012 | UC Irvine faculty members, post-doctoral scholars, researchers, and staff | Funds are available to pay open access/ processing fees for: - Fully open access journals: fees to publish in journals in which all articles are immediately available open access - Hybrid open access journals: fees to publish in journals in which the default is for articles to only be available to subscribers, but authors may pay to make individual articles open access - Open access monographs: fees for publishing open access ebooks with reputable publishers - Open data archiving: fees charged by a data repository for archiving open access data Articles must be made freely available at the time of initial publication. No embargo periods. | $3000 is the maximum any one applicant may be awarded in one year. The person who completes the application form will be considered the applicant for that article. UCI Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund will cover a maximum of $3000 for any one article in a fully open access journal - journals in which all articles are published open access. Some examples include PLOS journals in the sciences (particularly biology and medicine) and SAGE Open in social sciences and humanities. To search for open access journals, use the box to the right. The pilot Fund will cover a maximum of $1500 for any one article in a hybrid open access journal. | 30 | 30 | 39 | 17 | 32 | 21 | 1/20/2019 | Data through March 31, 2014. The Fund is no longer operative. | |||||||||||||||||
67 | UC San Diego | $20,000 | Inactive | October, 2012 | UC San Diego faculty, post-docs, residents, fellows, and graduate students and other affiliates are eligible to apply for funds. | Funds are available to pay open access fees and article publication charges for fully open access journals: - Fees to publish in journals in which all articles are immediately available open access - Articles must be made freely available at the time of initial publication, with no embargo periods. (Funds from the pilot are not available to cover color charges, page charges, illustration charges, or submission charges.) | UC San Diego Open Access Fund Pilot funds will cover a maximum of $1000 for any one article in a fully open access journal - journals in which all articles are published open access. $1000 is the maximum any one applicant may be awarded in one year. The person who completes the application form will be considered the applicant for that article. | 41 | 36 | 60 | 23 | 35 | 20 | 1/19/2019 | Data through March 31, 2014. The Fund is no longer operative. | |||||||||||||||||
68 | UC Davis | Inactive | October 2012 | UC Davis Academic Senate, Academic Federation members, faculty, post-docs, residents, fellows, and graduate students | - Articles must be made freely available at the time of initial publication. No embargo periods. - Article may be published in any fully open access publication (no hybrid journals are eligible). | Up to $1,000 per article. | 36 | 36 | 39 | 21 | 22 | 13 | 1/12/2019 | Data through March 31, 2014. The Fund is no longer operative. | ||||||||||||||||||
69 | UC Merced | $15,000 | Inactive | January, 2013 | - UC Merced faculty - UC Merced lecturers and others with academic appointments - Currently enrolled UC Merced graduate students Priority will be given to articles with multiple authors from UC Merced, and those that represent collaborative or interdisciplinary research. Authors with grant funds that can be used for open access charges are not eligible. | Only fully open access journals (immediately available with no embargo period) listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals will be funded. | Article Publication Charges (APCs) and Open Access Fees (OA Fees) up to $3,000/article. | 12 | 11 | 21 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 1/11/2019 | Data through March 31, 2014. The Fund is no longer operative. | |||||||||||||||||
70 | UC Santa Barbara | $30,000 | Inactive | Fall, 2012 | UCSB faculty members, post-doctoral scholars, graduate students, researchers, lecturers, scientists, librarians, and other non-Senate academic appointees are eligible to participate in the pilot. We request that authors with funding from external grants or contracts not utilize pilot project funds in order to allow others to share in the benefit of open publications. | - Fully open access journals - Fees to publish in journals in which all articles are immediately available open access. - Hybrid journals (subscription journals with an open access option) which offer publication fee discounts to UC authors. - Open access monographs - fees for publishing open access ebooks with reputable publishers. - Open data archives - fees charged by a data repository for archiving open access data. - Open access conference proceedings - fees to publish papers in fully open access conference proceedings. Funds are for unpublished research. Publications must be made freely available at the time of initial publication with no embargo periods. Funds from the pilot are not available to cover color charges, page charges, illustration charges, or submisson charges. As with all journals, authors are encouraged to publish their research results in high quality publications. | The fund will pay up to $3,000 per publication and has a cap of one publication per author per year. This is a pilot program and is subject to funding restraints. | 19 | 19 | 11 | 26 | 13 | 14 | 1/9/2019 | Data through March 31, 2014. The Fund is no longer operative. | |||||||||||||||||
71 | UC Riverside | Inactive | March, 2013 | UC Riverside faculty, post-doctoral scholars, researchers and graduate students | Funds are available to pay open access fees and article publication charges for fully open access journals: •Fees to publish in journals in which all articles are immediately available open access •Articles must be made freely available at the time of initial publication, with no embargo periods. Articles published in “hybrid open access journals” in which only some articles are open access and a publication fee is usually paid to the publisher do not qualify for these funds. | UR-OAF provides UC Riverside authors reimbursement up to $1000 per article for those publishing in fully open access journals (in which all articles are published as open access). There is a cap of one article per author per year. The person who completes the application form will be considered the applicant for that article. | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 1/6/2019 | Data through March 31, 2014. The Fund is no longer operative. | ||||||||||||||||||
72 | University of Iowa Libraries | $75,000, with support from the Office of the Provost | Inactive | April, 2013 | - Current UI faculty, post-doc, resident, or staff member who has had an article, book chapter, or book accepted for publication. - Currently UI-enrolled student or graduate student who has had an article, book chapter, or book accepted for publication. | - The publications must be peer-reviewed, and allow free and immediate access to all the content upon publication. - Journals or books with a hybrid model (some content by fee and some content open access) or delayed open access are not eligible for this fund. Articles and books must be fully available open access at the time of publication. - Authors must have exhausted all available grant funds that may be used for article publishing charges. - Preference is given to authors who have not been previously funded. - University of Iowa Libraries will submit your open access publication to Iowa Research Online. | Up to $3,000 for a journal article or books chapter, up to $5,000 for a monograph. | 274 | 258 | 224 | 70 | 169 | 51 | 10/31/2018 | The Fund closed in October, 2018. | |||||||||||||||||
73 | Libraries and Cultural Resources, University of Calgary | $100,000/yr (CAN) | Inactive | June 2008 | University of Calgary faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs. The first author on articles should be from the University of Calgary. | - Publication fees for peer-reviewed articles that have been accepted in journals which are fully open access, where all of the content (articles, editorials, letters, appendices, data, etc), in all formats (HTML, pdf, etc), in all issues (current and older), is openly accessible. - Charges for journals which are not fully open access but allow individual articles to be made freely available online immediately upon payment of the submission fee (“hybrid’) are not eligible as of June, 2014. - Journals/publishers that have differential charges for Creative Commons licenses (e.g. APCs for CC-BY licenses are higher than those for CC-BY-NC licenses) will not be eligible for coverage. - Deposition of funded articles in the University of Calgary institutional repository is mandatory. | - If eligible, the entire fee is covered. - Authors must exhaust other funding avenues (e.g., grants) before turning to the Fund. | 1,444 | 1,444 | 905 | N/A | 409 | 90 | 10/30/2018 | The Fund closed in October, 2018. | |||||||||||||||||
74 | Temple University Libraries | $15,000 for the current fiscal year | Active | 2016 | Applicants must be a current Temple University faculty member OR a current postdoctoral fellow/graduate student with a faculty member listed as a co-author. Applicants with external grant funding that could cover, either in whole or in part, the cost of any publication and processing fees are ineligible. Applicants must agree to deposit a copy of their publication in our Digital Library. | - The publication must take the form of a peer-reviewed journal article. - Publications in “hybrid” open access journals will not be supported. - The journal must be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). - The publisher must be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), or clearly follow the membership criteria of the organization. - Because the Libraries already cover 50% of the APC for BioMed Central journals, these journals are not eligible. - Funding will cover publication and processing fees only. Funds may not be used for reprints, color illustration fees, non-open access page charges, permissions fees, web hosting for self-archiving, or other expenses not directly related to open access fees. | - Each applicant may request up to $1,500 total per fiscal year. This amount may be split across multiple applications so long as funds are available. - For articles with multiple Temple authors, the per article payment is capped at $3,000. - Fees are pro-rated for multi-authored articles. Co-authors from outside of Temple are not supported. If an article includes non-Temple authors, the APC will be divided equally among all authors and then the Temple authors’ portion will be funded. For example, if the APC is $2000, and there are four authors, two of whom are from Temple, the authors can apply for $1000 from the fund ($500 each). | 24 | 24 | 19 | 18 | 12 | 20 | 6/30/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
75 | Kent State University Libraries | $136,000 from FY2013/14 through 2017/18 | Inactive | September, 2013 | The Open-Access Fund is available to any Kent State University faculty, postdoc, staff member, or student who is the lead or corresponding author. | Eligible Publications are open-access journals that: · are approved by the applicants’ Academic Unit · Are peer reviewed · Are listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals · Have policies and practices consistent with the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Code of Conduct · Make their standard fee schedules publicly accessible · Waive their APCs in cases of the authors’ financial hardship | Funding allowance for a single article is capped at $2000. Authors may receive funding for up to $3,000 per year for all APCs. Unused amounts do not roll over to future years. | 63 | 63 | 35 | 12 | 38 | 11 | 6/30/2018 | The fund was deactivated in August 2018 | |||||||||||||||||
76 | Penn State University Libraries | $20,000 during initial pilot; $20,000 assigned again for FY 2016/17 | Inactive | February 2015. Criteria for awards was established by the Libraries Publishing Board, which oversees the process and determines what applications are funded. | A Penn State scholar at any Penn State location is eligible (faculty, staff, student). Undergrad students eligible with concurrence of a faculty member. First time applicants get preference for funding if appropriate. Requirement to deposit a copy in ScholarSphere repository. | Peer-reviewed journal articles in fully open access publications that are considered by the Board in their investigation to have strong scholarly merit. • Eligible publications must provide free, immediate, online access to the full text of the research article upon publication without restrictions. Access may be provided by an available pre-print or post-print version of the article. • Eligible journals may include those listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals or publishers that are generally compliant with the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association’s Code of Conduct. •Journals must be peer-reviewed. •Journals must make their standard fee schedules publicly accessible. •“Hybrid” open-access publishing, such as subscription-based journals that make some articles available after an author pays fees, are not eligible for funding. •Any journals or publishers whose legitimacy is in doubt or are listed in Beall’s List of predatory scholarly open-access publishers require greater scrutiny by authors and the University Libraries. Ultimately, the eligibility of the journal is the purview of the Penn State Libraries Publishing Board. Authors are encouraged to include the following statement: “Publication of this article was funded in part by The Pennsylvania State University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund.” | Award is capped at $2000 per article, one article per individual per fiscal year. For co-authored submissions, awards are pro-rated depending on how many of the authors have a Penn State affiliation. | 38 | 30 | 36 | 22 | 26 | N/A | 6/30/2018 | Data through June 30, 2018, at which time the Fund was discontinued | |||||||||||||||||
77 | Wayne State University Libraries | $10,000 | Inactive | March, 2016 | Funds are available to current full-time Wayne State University Faculty. One award per author per funding year. | Peer-reviewed journal articles and scholarly monographs, and/or their related or supporting data sets, are eligible for support from the fund. Venues for publication must either be members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA, http://oaspa.org/), or meet the membership requirements of OASPA, as delineated under OASPA’s Membership Criteria (http://oaspa.org/membership/membership-criteria/) and Code of Conduct (http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/). Hybrid open access arrangements (“paid open access” or “open choice”) may be considered on a case-by-case basis, with the understanding that publishers offering open choice may not meet 100% of the above criteria. The publication must be free of any embargo period which might limit access for a specific time after publication. | The fund seeks to support at least ten projects a year. Applicants to the fund may request amounts up to 1/10th of the total fund [request cap is currently $1,000]; fees less than that amount are eligible for full funding. | 38 | 25 | 43 | 25 | 34 | 26 | 6/30/2018 | Data through June 30, 2018. The Fund is closed for the foreseeable future. | |||||||||||||||||
78 | George Mason University Libraries | $25,000 annually | Active | October 2012 | All Mason faculty members, registered graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows are eligible. | The journal must: -- Be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals -- Hold membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or demonstrate its adherence to the OASPA Code of Conduct -- Publish its standard fee schedules, and -- Waive its article processing fee in cases of financial hardship, as evidenced by its public policy. Support for a hybrid journal open access fee will be considered if: -- the publisher is a non-profit society or institution, -- access to the journal’s proprietary content is available only through subscription with the society or institution and not through a for-profit aggregator like Proquest, Ebsco, or Elsevier, -- the fee and its use are clearly indicated on the journal or publisher website, and -- the fee is waived for authors from developing nations or those with demonstrated financial hardship. | Individuals eligible to apply for publisher payment of an APF may receive up to $3,000 per fiscal year, with a $3,000 cap per article. Fees are pro-rated for multi-authored articles. That is, if more than one author from Mason applies for funding support for the same article, the article processing fee will be divided equally, up to the $3,000/article cap. | 114 | 114 | 82 | 28 | 60 | 28 | 6/30/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
79 | University of Virginia Library | $15,000 per fiscal year | Inactive | July, 2013 | Eligible authors include all faculty, researchers, staff and students served by the U.Va. Library system (this excludes those served by the Health Sciences, Law and Business libraries). | - Journal must be peer-reviewed and listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. - Journal should generally adhere to the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) ‘Code of Conduct’. - Hybrid journals will not be eligible for funding at this time. - Article must be available immediately upon publication, with no embargo. - Other content types such as books are eligible, if they are peer-reviewed. - Author must agree to submit a copy of the post-review publication to UVa’s institutional repository, Libra. - Only publishing fees will be covered. - Authors must have exhausted all available grant funds that may be eligible to be used for the article processing fee. | Eligible individuals may receive up to $2000 per article, and $3000 total per year. Funds will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. | 36 | 26 | 58 | 8 | 25 | 18 | 6/30/2017 | Through June 30, 2017. The Fund closed June 30, 2017. | |||||||||||||||||
80 | University of Western Ontario Libraries | $120,000 CAD | Inactive | February, 2014 | At the time of application, an eligible applicant must be: - a current faculty (full-time or part-time) member at Western; or - a current postdoctoral fellow at Western; or - a current graduate student at Western; or - a current librarian or archivist at Western The applicant must be either the first author or the corresponding author of the article. | Peer-reviewed journal articles accepted for publication into open access journals that are listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, or meet the DOAJ’s selection criteria. In particular, "hybrid" journals, which normally require a subscription to read, but provide an "open access option" for a supplementary author fee, are not eligible for funding. Books, or book chapters (no textbooks), which are published by a publisher that is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or meet their Code of Conduct. Funded articles, books, or book chapters will be freely available online immediately upon publication. The journal does not require that the author(s) to transfer copyright to the publisher, and the author(s) retain control over the future use of the work. Optionally, but preferably, the eligible work is published with a license that enables the widest distribution and reuse. The Creative Commons “CC BY” Attribution license (see Creative Commons Canada for more information about the Creative Commons licenses) is preferred. | The Fund will provide up to $3,000 (Canadian) per article, book, or book chapter. In the case of an article with multiple authors, if both the first and corresponding authors are Western researchers, either one of them but not both can apply for the funding support. If the applicant has received a grant from a research funding agency, s/he must declare that the publication fee for the article has not already been covered by the grant. Applicants are eligible for up to two grants per year. | 115 | 84 | 118 | 44 | 59 | 19 | 6/30/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
81 | Texas Woman’s University | $30,000 annually from the Provost | Active | Fall 2015 | Current full-time TWU faculty (clinical or tenure track). | To be eligible for support, a work must be: - A peer-reviewed journal article, scholarly monograph, conference proceeding, or data set. - Published in a journal or platform that is openly available immediately upon publication after charges are paid. - Published in a traditional subscription based or 'hybrid' journal that offers an open access option. - Accepted for publication at the time of application for funding support. - Not eligible for funding by a grant that would cover publication charges. - The publication must have a standard article fee schedule publicly posted. Costs for reprints, color illustration fees, non-open access page charges, administrative charges and other fees are not supported. The article must be available immediately upon publication. | Fund provides awards of up to $3000/article per author/contact, person/lead or author group in an open access journal. Funds will be distributed by semester: Fall (August - December), Spring (January - April), Summer (May - July). | 12 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 6/30/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
82 | Columbia University Libraries/Information Services | Up to $25,000 for fiscal year 2010; up to $50,000 for fiscal year 2011 | Inactive | January 2010 | Any Columbia faculty member, post‐doctoral researcher, staff member, or student author. Not currently available to Columbia affiliates including Barnard College, Teachers College, or Union Theological Seminary. | Columbia Open‐Access Publication (COAP) funds apply to article-processing fees for scholarly peer-reviewed articles. Only articles that are published in open‐access journals are eligible. Journals with hybrid open‐access model or delayed open‐access model are not eligible. Articles submitted for publication after January 1, 2010 are eligible for this program. | COAP funds are intended to be a funding source of last resort and to support open access to articles whose research was not grant funded. Articles for which other publication funding is available are not eligible for COAP funds. This includes: ‐‐ Articles reporting on grant‐funded research where the granted funds can be used for publication fees (whether or not the particular grant had budgeted for such fees and whether or not sufficient grant funds remain); ‐‐ Articles funded by an institution that itself pays publication fees on behalf of the author (such as Wellcome Trust). Authors may receive funding for up to $3,000 per year for all article‐processing charges. Unused amounts do not roll over to future years. The most an author can request for a single article is also $3,000. In the case of an article with multiple authors, each eligible author can apply for reimbursement for a prorated portion of the publication fee. An example: An article with three authors, two of whom are from Columbia, is to appear in a journal with a $3,000 publication fee. Each Columbia author may apply for reimbursement for $1,000. In the hypothetical case of an eligible journal with a $6,000 publication fee, each Columbia author could apply for reimbursement for a prorated portion of the $3,000 funding cap per article, or $1,000. | 109 | 90 | 243 | 54 | 59 | 21 | 6/30/2016 | The cumulative number of articles approved reflects a downward revision to the FY14–15 figure previously reported, based on a review and correction of the data. The Fund is on hiatus. | |||||||||||||||||
83 | Florida State University Libraries | $25,000 | Inactive | December, 2013 | Florida State University faculty, post-docs, researchers and currently enrolled graduate and undergraduate students are eligible. Preference is given to authors who have not been previously funded. | To be eligible, journal publishers must be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and book publishers may be listed in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). Also, a publisher must be a member of Open Access Scholarly Publisher's Association (OASPA) or meet its Code of Conduct. Journals or books with a "hybrid model" or delayed open access are not eligible for this fund. | Maximum reimbursement is $1,500.00 per article or book. Due to limited funds, any given author is limited to one fund reimbursement per fiscal year. Any open access item published with support from this fund must also be submitted to DigiNole Commons. | 48 | 47 | 42 | 22 | 27 | 16 | 6/30/2016 | The fund was discontinued in 2017 and re-purposed to focus on mini-grants for OER and digital humanities. | |||||||||||||||||
84 | University of Toronto Libraries | $45,000 initially, with an additional $10,000 committed after launch | Inactive | October, 2012 | The Fund is open to all full-time and part-time faculty members and librarians, continuing staff, currently registered undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows affiliated with the University of Toronto. | To be eligible for reimbursement, the article, chapter or monograph must be published in a fully Open Access format. At this time, traditional subscription based or 'hybrid' journals that offer an open access option for a fee are not eligible. Eligible Open Access journals will either be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or adhere to its Code of Conduct. Journals must provide unfettered access to all peer-reviewed articles and make publicly available a standard article fee schedule. The library reserves the right to refuse a request if the publisher appears to be a “predatory open access publisher”. | The maximum amount that will be reimbursed to an author is $3000 per fiscal year from the Fund. Researchers who have received a research grant that explicitly includes publication or submission support are required to use those funds before applying to the Open Access Author Fund. Additionally, those faculty and librarians who have access to departmental or PERA funds should make use of these funds prior to making a request for reimbursement through the Open Access Author Fund. Fund recipients must provide a copy of their article/book chapter for submission to T-Space, the University’s Research Repository. | 100 | 100 | 78 | 45 | 59 | 30 | 6/30/2016 | Through June 30, 2016, at which time the Fund was discontinued. | |||||||||||||||||
85 | Brandeis University Library & Technology Services | $25,000 | Active | October, 2013 | LTS funding is available to faculty, staff and students. Only one author per article may apply. | Funding is available for open access journals that do not charge a fee for institutions, libraries or readers for access to the content, and do not have an embargo period for access. This includes: - Members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) - All Journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals that allow author to retain distribution rights. - Hybrid journals that allow authors to retain distribution rights. | In order to include as many authors as possible while covering typical costs LTS will support 100% of the supported charges with a limit of $3000.00 Only those fees associated with open access publishing are eligible for support. Costs for reprints, color illustration fees, non-open access page charges, administrative charges and other fees are not supported. Articles whose underlying research was funded by grants that allow funds to be used for open access fees are not eligible for funding. | 18 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 6/30/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
86 | Johns Hopkins University Libraries | $72,000 | Inactive | FY 2012 | Because the request for support exceeds the funds available, this year the OAPF is limiting grants to Hopkins students, postDocs and early-career faculty. The applicant must be an author on the paper in question. | -- Must be published in a peer-reviewed fully Open Access journal (defined as any journal that appears in the Directory of Open Access Journals). -- Cannot be used to pay for publishing in 'hybrid' Open Access journals. -- Must be immediately, openly accessible at publication; no delayed publishing or embargo periods are accepted. | -- Up to $1,500 per article. -- Up to $1,500 per year per author. -- A copy of all funded articles will be made publicly in the Johns Hopkins University institutional repository, no later than three (3) months after receiving this award or three (3) months post-publication. Authors will be contacted by JScholarship staff to complete this task. | 44 | 44 | 45 | 24 | 24 | 13 | 1/1/2015 | The Fund closed in January, 2015. | |||||||||||||||||
87 | University of Oregon Libraries, Office of the Provost | Up to $50,000 | Inactive | Spring 2009 | - Applicant must be a UO tenure-related faculty member, non-tenure-related career faculty member (including ranked officers of instruction, research, or administration), post-doc, or currently enrolled graduate student ready to submit a completed article for publication. - Applicant must be listed as one of the authors, and article must indicate UO affiliation. | Reimbursement will cover only direct costs for open access publication (not the cost of reprints, color illustration fees, non-OA page charges, web hosting for self-archiving, etc.). Manuscript must be a peer-reviewed scholarly article or monograph (including original research, review articles, etc.). Funding is available for publication in open access peer reviewed scholarly journals that charge a publication fee. Funding is also available for peer reviewed scholarly monographs. Articles must be made freely available on the web at the time of initial publication (no embargo periods). At this time funding is not available for articles published using an "open choice" option in journals that are primarily subscription based rather than open access. Journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/doaj) are assumed to qualify. For publication in a journal not listed there, additional information to allow assessment of whether the journal meets our criteria will be required as part of the application process. | - Up to 100% of author fee for publishing a peer-reviewed manuscript in an open access journal. Maximum reimbursement will be $1,000 per article. - Maximum reimbursement will be $3,000 per person over the period of this pilot project. Reimbursement will cover only direct costs for open access publication (not the cost of reprints, color illustration fees, non-OA page charges, web hosting for self-archiving, etc.) - Reimbursement will be available only in cases where the authors do not have adequate grant or contract funding specifically designated to cover author fees. Authors with funding designated to cover publication costs such as author fees from grants, contracts, or other institutional funds are asked to use those funds first and to allow others to share in the benefit of open publications. | 45 | 41 | 31 | 9 | 21 | 12 | 6/30/2014 | The Fund has been retired as of June, 2014. | |||||||||||||||||
88 | UC Santa Cruz | $15,000 | Inactive | Fall, 2012 | UC Santa Cruz faculty, researchers, lecturers, post-docs, and currently enrolled graduate students who do not have grant funds that can be used for open access charges are eligible to apply for funds from the UCSC Open Access Fund pilot. | Article publication charges (APCs) or Open Access Fees (OA Fees): - for previously unpublished articles - in fully open access journals (in which all articles are available open access) or in hybrid open access journals (in which the default is for articles to only be available to subscribers, but authors may pay to make individual articles open access); - where articles are made immediately available, with no embargo period. | UCSC Open Access Fund will cover a maximum of $3000 for any one article in a fully open access journal - journals in which all articles are published open access. The pilot Fund will cover a maximum of $1500 for any one article in a hybrid open access journal. Hybrid journals charge readers a subscription fee, but allow authors to pay a fee to make a single article open access. $3000 is the maximum any one applicant may be awarded in one year. The person who completes the application form will be considered the applicant for that article. | 23 | 23 | 15 | 31 | 13 | 14 | 3/31/2014 | Data through March 31, 2014. The Fund is no longer operative. | |||||||||||||||||
89 | University of Utah Library | $83,994 | Inactive | May, 2011 | University of Utah faculty, staff members, postdosc, or currently enrolled graduate or undergraduate students on main (excluding law) campus. | a) Journals which are fully Open Access. Content of the entire journal is freely available online immediately upon payment of the article processing fee. Fully Open Access journals from publishers who have few such journals are also eligible. b) Hybrid journals which are not fully Open Access but which allow individual articles to be made freely available online immediately upon payment of the submission fee. To be eligible for funding in this category, the publisher must plan to make (in the next subscription year) reductions to the institutional subscription prices based on the number of Open Access articles in those journals. | The maximum dollar amount that the OAP Fund will reimburse for a single article during the trial period is $3,000. Researchers are expected to request funding for open access publication from their funding agency before applying to the OAP Fund. | 50 | 37 | 47 | 16 | 33 | 26 | 2/28/2014 | Through February, 2014. The Fund closed in 2014. | |||||||||||||||||
90 | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development until fall 2009; subsequently continued via library funding) | $20,000 From the Vice Chancellor for Research; $8,000 From Health Sciences Library $8,000 from University Library | Inactive | March 2005 | UNC-CH faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate or professional students without grant funds to cover publication fees | Publishing charges related to journals offering free immediate open access to articles. Journals offering “open choice” or “hybrid” options are eligible provided the articles are immediately accessible. | - Award maximum is $1000 per article. - Authors must exhaust other funding avenues (e.g., grants) before turning to the Fund. | 82 | 71 | 63 | 12 | 47 | 19 | 7/31/2013 | Fund is no longer active | |||||||||||||||||
91 | University of Wisconsin – Madison Libraries | $50,000, supported by unrestricted gift funds to library | Inactive | July 2005 | - Any University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty and researchers - Reimbursement will be limited to one award per fiscal year per author. | - Up to 50% for publishing in a fully open access journal as defined by inclusion in DOAJ; up to 30% for publishing in journals that allow an open choice option. - Reimbursement will not cover the cost of reprints, color illustration fees, page charges, etc. | - Up to 50% for publishing in a fully open access journal (as defined by inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals). - Up to 30% for publishing in a journal that provides authors with an open access option. - Reimbursement will not exceed $1,500 per article. - Authors must cover the balance of the open access charges through grants or other funds. | 37 | 37 | 30 | 21 | 22 | 19 | 6/30/2013 | Data cover date range from 2/8/08 – 6/30/13. Fund is no longer active. | |||||||||||||||||
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