Library and Office of Research Support Over $75,000 in Open Access Publishing

In FY25, the UA Little Rock community made significant strides in open access (OA)
publishing, thanks to expanded support from the Ottenheimer Library and the Office of
Research. Through a combination of read and publish agreements and faculty
publishing grants, the university helped fund the OA costs of 51 university researchers,
saving them a total of $75,831.26 in article processing charges (APCs) for 24 articles
published across 15 journals.

During the year, the university maintained read and publish agreements with five major
academic publishers—Association of Computing Machinery, American Chemical
Society, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, and Springer Nature. These agreements
waived APCs for university authors, saving researchers more than $61,000 and
facilitating publication in high-impact journals.

In addition to publisher waivers, the Library and Office of Research awarded over
$14,600 in open access faculty publishing grants, with eligible faculty receiving up to
$2,000 per article and $3,000 per fiscal year.

Publications spanned a range of disciplines, including biology, chemistry, engineering,
public affairs, and computer science. Articles appeared in journals such as Nano
Letters, Royal Society Open Science, Environmental Science: Nano, Healthcare, and
Social Network Analysis and Mining.

For additional information, see: Open Access Research Support Report FY25.