Financial Support for Open Access Publishing - Carnegie Mellon

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-05-24

Summary:

"Open access to journal articles is strategic for Carnegie Mellon. For authors, open access provides the broadest possible dissemination of their work, increasing citations and impact. For readers, open access provides easy discovery and free access to articles in journals to which the University Libraries does not subscribe. Many open access journals levy an Article Processing Charge (APC) – after peer review and acceptance for publication – in lieu of a subscription fee. Many funding agencies mandate open access and support payment of APCs with grant funds. Researchers who want to publish in an open access journal but do not have such grants are at a disadvantage. To help level the playing field and encourage Carnegie Mellon authors to publish in open access journals, at the request of campus faculty the University Libraries has agreed, on an experimental basis and under certain conditions, to help CMU authors pay reasonable APCs to publish their peer-reviewed articles in open access journals. The Libraries will contribute up to $1,500 per article, with a cap of $3,000 per author per fiscal year. Ideally, the author’s department will also contribute to paying the APC. University Libraries’ Conditions ... [1] Eligible authors – Carnegie Mellon faculty, research scientists, post-docs, and graduate students are eligible if they have no money from funders that allow grant funds to be used for Article Processing Charges. [2] Eligible journals – Journals must provide immediate open access to all peer-reviewed articles and a publicly available standard article fee schedule. The journal publisher must be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or adhere to its Code of Conduct. [3] Article cap – Maximum funding per article is $1500. [4] Author cap – Maximum funding per author per fiscal year is $3000; unused amounts do not roll over to the next year. Requests for funding will be accepted and processed on a first come, first served basis until the University Libraries’ annual allocation to the APC fund is depleted."

Link:

http://search.library.cmu.edu/services/apc/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

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Date tagged:

05/24/2013, 18:49

Date published:

05/24/2013, 14:49