Open Access Publishing Fund – Clemson Libraries

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.

Clemson Libraries believes in the important role fully open access journals (gold OA) play in the changing landscape of scholarly communication, as well as the economic realities authors face in choosing to make their work fully OA. Based on that, Clemson Libraries offers this fund to support Open Access Publishing to enhance the visibility of research outputs for Clemson University’s authors, which supports Clemson Elevate’s goal of doubling the research by 2035.

Visit the Open Access Publishing Fund collection in Clemson Open to view the open access works supported by this initiative.

Form: Open Access Fund Application

Requesting Author Information
Name(Required)
First Last
Email(Required)
You must list your official @clemson.edu email here, not a g.clemson or a personal account.

ORCID(Required)
For information on how to create an ORCID please see visit the Research Impact Challenge LibGuide.
Clemson College(Required)
Please indicate other College:
College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences (CAFLS)(Required)
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College of Science (COS)(Required)
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College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences (CECAS)(Required)
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College of Behavioral, Social, and Health Sciences (CBSHS)(Required)
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College of Architecture, Arts, and Construction (CAAC)(Required)
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College of Education (COE)(Required)
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College of Arts and Humanities (CAH)(Required)
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Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business (COB)(Required)
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Please indicate your primary role at Clemson:(Required)
What is your author status?(Required)
Additional Authors
Do you have coauthors?(Required)

Yes

No
Additional Authors

Name Affiliation Author Status Actions

There are no Authors.

Maximum number of authors reached.

Article Information
Article Title(Required)
Journal Name(Required)
Journal’s ISSN(Required)
Publisher(Required)
Have you already submitted your article to this journal?(Required)

Yes

No
Has your article already been accepted for publication?

Yes

No, still waiting for a response
If your article has been accepted, when is payment due?
Authors cannot be reimbursed for personal funds spent. Therefore, payment will be handled through chart strings via the department’s Business Officer that is entered in the application.
Funding Information
Have you received an award from the Clemson Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund this fiscal year?

Yes

No
Are College or Departmental funds available to match the Library's contribution?(Required)

Yes

No
Are grant or F&A funds available to match the Library's contribution?(Required)

Yes

No
OA Publication Fee(Required)

Requested contribution from the Library(Required)
Max of $1500. Please enter a number less than or equal to 1500.
Please enter a number less than or equal to 1500.
Budget Officer Information
The library will not directly pay the invoice. Upon manuscript acceptance and receipt of an invoice, the library will provide the budget officer with an account string to draw its portion of the payment.
Budget Officer Name(Required)
Budget Officer Email Address(Required)

Social Media
Do you agree to have yourself and your research featured on Clemson’s social media if you are chosen for an award?(Required)

Yes

No

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Award Eligibility

Application for funding may be completed at the time of submission or immediately upon an article’s acceptance for publication.
If you do not receive an email copy of your application it was not submitted, please try a different browser and contact the OA Fund manager if you still have technical difficulties.
Clemson faculty, adjunct faculty, researchers, post-docs, Emeritus faculty, and students in all disciplines are eligible to apply (must be currently affiliated with Clemson and have an active yourname@nullclemson.edu email).
Each person may receive one award per fiscal year (July – June).
Authors are encouraged to request a funding match from their department, college, or an outside granting agency.
Funds may be used to cover publication fees, submission fees, illustration fees, or other related fees.
Only reputable and fully open access (gold OA) publications will be eligible for funding. Hybrid journals are excluded. “Reputability” will be determined by the Libraries in consultation with the applicant and the Directory of Open Access Journals. For tools for checking if a journal is predatory visit the Predatory Journals and Publishers LibGuide.
In the case of cross-institutional co-authors, the Clemson researcher must apply for the award and be affiliated with Clemson at the time of the award.
Authors agree to cite the fund as a source of support within the article using the following statement: Publication support was provided by the Clemson University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund.
Authors automatically opt-in to have themselves and their research featured on Clemson’s social media if they are chosen for an award. If you do not want your research featured, you must indicate that on your application.
The Libraries will evaluate applications submitted each month and 2-3 awards will be given at the end of each month. All applicants will receive an email about their application status at the end of each month.
Each application will be evaluated using this rubric.
The maximum award is $1,500.
Authors cannot be reimbursed for personal funds spent. Therefore, payment will be handled through chart strings via the department’s Business Officer that is entered in the application.
Authors must deposit a copy of the funded article in Clemson University’s Clemson Open institutional repository.

Contact

Amal Mostafa
Scholarly Communications Librarian
864-656-3024
amalm@nullclemson.edu

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.

About the Fund

Form: Open Access Fund Application

Award Eligibility

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