NOTE: The Open Access Publishing Fund has been fully encumbered for this fiscal year. Funding will be available again at the start of the new fiscal year in July 2023. Please use the contact information below for any questions.
About the Fund
Clemson University Libraries is committed to supporting its faculty community in their efforts to share the results of their research broadly, quickly, and openly. Often, this is accomplished by legally sharing accepted manuscripts through an institutional repository or academic social networking site. However, the Libraries also recognizes the important role fully open access journals play in the changing landscape of scholarly communication, as well as the economic realities authors face in choosing to make their works fully OA.
Visit the Open Access Publishing Fund collection in TigerPrints view the open access works supported by this initiative:
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/oa_fund/
Award Conditions
- Funds not to exceed $1,500 will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
- Clemson faculty, adjunct faculty, researchers, post-docs, and graduate students in all disciplines are eligible to apply.
- Individual authors restricted to one award per year.
- Application for funding must be completed at the time of submission or immediately upon an article’s acceptance for publication.
- Authors must request a match from their department, college, or an outside granting agency. Without a match, full funding cannot be guaranteed.
- Awards will be paid directly to the publisher, not to the author(s).
- 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, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, and Beall’s List.
- In the case of cross-institutional co-authors, the Clemson researcher must apply for the award and be listed as the first author. Award will be prorated.
- Authors agree to cite the fund as a source of support within the article.
- Authors must deposit a copy of the funded article in Clemson University’s TigerPrints institutional repository.
Contact
Megan Sheffield
Interim Head of Open Scholarship
Data Services Librarian
msheff@nullclemson.edu
864 656 5185
This policy has been drafted based on the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.