The Open Access Publishing Support Fund enables UA Little Rock faculty to publish scholarly work in open access (OA) publications by providing grants for up to $2,000 toward the cost of publisher article processing charges (APCs).
This is a pilot program for spring 2024.
Complete the application form.
Funding Guidelines
Authors
- Tenured or tenure-eligible faculty who are the sole, primary, or corresponding author of the work are eligible to receive funds. Articles co-authored with authors from other institutions will only be supported if the UA Little Rock author is the lead or corresponding author.
- Applicants should provide cost-sharing (e.g., department, college, grant funds) when available.
- Applicants are limited to one funding disbursement per fiscal year. Only one author per publication is eligible for funding.
Publications
- Funded manuscripts must be published in fully open access journals or books with free availability to readers at the time of publication (with no embargo period).
- Publications must be peer-reviewed sources from reputable publishers with an article fee schedule publicly available online.
- The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) the Directory of Open Access Books and/or the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association may be used to help verify a publication’s quality and open access credentials.
- Hybrid journals and books (i.e., those that charge reader fees or subscriptions while publishing specific articles/chapters as open access) are ineligible. Applicants should check with the library to discover which hybrid journals are supported via read and publish agreements.
Funding
- The maximum amount of support is $2,000 for a single publication. The author is responsible for paying any additional amount or other incidental charges.
- Requests will be supported on a first-come, first-served basis until funds are expended.
- The Ottenheimer Library will make payments for approved awards to publishers on the author’s behalf. Authors should not make payments prior to the grant award, as reimbursements cannot be guaranteed.
- Upon award, authors should submit their accepted article/chapter for publication within four weeks of funding. Funded awards must be expended within the fiscal year requested.
- Authors should include the following statement of acknowledgment: “This publication was funded by the UA Little Rock Open Access Article Publishing Support Fund.”
- Authors agree to deposit a final published version of the manuscript into a university institutional repository for long-term preservation and collocation with other university scholarship.
- All information on awards from the fund will be publicly available.
Application Process
- Complete the application form.
- Requests should be made at the time an article is accepted for publication.
- Authors will be notified of their award via email within 3 business days of application.
- Have questions? Please contact us via Ask Ottenheimer Library.
