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  • This is a list of funds to support OA journals, books, and other kinds of publication. The funds may be hosted by universities, research centers, foundations, or government agencies.
    • Until September 21, 2016, this page was limited to OA journal funds. Now it is more inclusive, for example, including funds to cover OA books.
    • All the journal funds listed here are designed to pay publication fees (or article processing charges, APCs) at fee-based OA journals. If funds emerge to support no-fee OA journals, they belong here as well.
  • When possible, annotate the funds with their launch dates, end dates (if any), special criteria, funding limits or cost-ceilings, and other notable features.
  • If an institution once had an OA publication fund which has since expired, please add it to the list of Discontinued OA publication funds.
  • Related lists in OAD: (1) OA book business models, (2) OA journal business models, (3) Discontinued OA publication funds.
  • Related lists elsewhere:
    • Co-Action Publishing maintains a list of universities and funding agencies willing to pay article processing charges for grantees.
    • De Gruyter maintains a list of universities and funding agencies willing to pay publication fees.
    • PLOS maintains a list of universities and funding agencies supporting open access fees.
    • SPARC maintains a guide to Open Access Funds, which includes a table of funds and their associated features or policies.
    • Springer maintained a list until December 2014 of universities and funding agencies with OA journal funds. Springer also once maintained similar list in connection to university and funder support for OA publishing, Funding and policy support.Springer now maintains a separate list with regularly updated information on OA funding for books.
    • Ubiquity Press maintains a list of universities and funding agencies willing to pay publication fees for academic books.
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  • George Mason University
    • The Mason Open Access Publishing Fund was launched in October 2012.
    • Funds may be requested to publish in reputable full OA and eligible hybrid journals.
    • The fund maximum award is $3,000 per article, with an annual cap of $3,000 per author. Multi-authored works are pro-rated.
    • Recipients of grant funds that may be used to pay OA publishing fees are asked not to apply.
    • A statement of acknowledgment is required in the article.
    • Funded works must be deposited into MARS, the university's digital repository.
  • University of Göttingen
  • Grand Valley State University
    • The Open Access Publishing Support Fund was launched in September 2011.
    • The fund covers both full OA and hybrid publications that do not have an embargo period.
    • The fund maximum award is "$3,000 per year," and funding for multiauthor works is prorated.
    • Grand Valley State University must appear as the fund-awarded author's affiliation.
    • Funded works must be deposited into the University's repository.

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  • Leibniz Association
    • The Leibniz Open Access Publishing Fund is available to Leibniz Association submitting or corresponding authors as of January 2016.
    • Maximum award of 2,000€.
    • Mandatory funder and Leibniz Association affiliation acknowledgement in funded publication.
    • Limited to publication in fully OA journals, which "should be listed in the "Directory of Open Access Journals" (DOAJ)".
    • In addition, "If the article is not published under a Creative Commons license, a second publication right for institutional and subject-specific repositories must be granted by the publisher before the invoice can be paid.".
  • University of Leipzig
    • The fund launched 2014 and operates with support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft since 2013 through the Open-Access Publishing Programme
    • The fund] is available to Leipzig University authors.
    • Limited to publication in fully OA journals with a maximum APC of 2,000€.
    • A statement of acknowledgment is required in the article ("We acknowledge support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and Universität Leipzig within the program of Open Access Publishing")
  • Louisiana State University
    • The Open Access Author Fund was launched in January 2018.
    • The fund is ongoing.
    • Published works and publications in hybrid journals are ineligible for funding.
    • Only OA journals from completely OA publishers (ones that only publish OA) are eligible for funding.
    • The maximum award is $1,500.
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • University of Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
    • The fund operates with support from Land Schleswig-Holstein through the programm Open-Access-Publikationsfonds (funding 2016-2020, Lübeck: 14.000€ per year)
    • Funding is available to submitting or corresponding authors from University of Lübeck
    • Researchers completed their master thesis (or a comparable academic degree) not more than 10 years ago
    • Limited to publication in fully peer-reviewed OA journals with fees up to 2,000€. Publication in hybrid journals, like Springer Open Choice, ineligible for funding
    • A statement of acknowledgment is required in the article ("We acknowledge financial support by Land Schleswig-Holstein within the funding programme Open Access Publikationsfonds")
  • Lund University
    • The fund was announced in March 2009. It was apparently launched January 2009.
    • Also see the Jörgen Eriksson Lars Bjørnshauge article about the fund in the January 2009 issue of ScieCom Info.
    • The fund will not pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals.
    • Fund submissions before "2012-11-01" will be fully funded, while those after will receive "50% of the article publishing cost."
    • Funding is available to corresponding authors from Lund with "an active LUCAT-id."

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  • University of Portsmouth
    • The fund offers APC funds that are only available to authors who can demonstrate that they have no other sources (e.g. their departments) from which they can meet the costs, and that paying an APC to publish in the specified journal can be justified.
    • Funding from the University may be obtained through application.
    • APC discount deals are also available.

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  • Queensland University of Technology
    • The fund was launched in 2008 as an experiment limited to PLoS OA journals; it has since expanded its scope.
    • The fund does not cover hybrid journals.
    • See a February 2011 article about the QUT fund for more details.

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  • University of Regensburg
    • The fund was announced in February 2011.
    • The fund does not support hybrid journals.
    • Funding is capped at a maximum of € 2000 per article.
    • Funding is available to University of Regensburg researchers who are the submitting or corresponding author of a work.
  • Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) (Riksbank Tercentenary Foundation)
    • The fund was announced on June 1, 2010.
    • It will provide grantees with up to 30,000 SEK per project.
    • Based on terms in effect for grant recipients awarded from 2013 forward, publication funds are provided to all Riksbankens Jubileimsfond (RJ) project grant recipients.
      • Grants "up to three years' duration that fund positions corresponding to up to 75% of full-time employment" are awarded 50,000kr. Funding varied for "larger projects".
      • Programs instead "must be included in the programme budget applied for.", and are not awarded on an included basis.
      • Maximum embargo period of 6 months, with mandatory deposit upon publication "If the researcher opts for parallel publishing", with encouraged deposit from publication in Open Access journals.
  • University of Rostock (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany)
    • The fund launched 2017 and operates with support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft since 2016 through the Open-Access Publishing Programme
    • Funding is available to submitting or corresponding authors from University of Rostock
    • Limited to publication in fully peer-reviewed OA journals with fees up to 2,000€. Publication in hybrid journals, like Springer Open Choice, ineligible for funding.
    • Publication of University Medicine Rostock require OA-Journal with Impact Factor.
    • A statement of acknowledgment is required in the article ("We acknowledge financial support by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Universität Rostock/Universitätsmedizin Rostock within the funding programme Open Access Publishing.")
  • Ruhr-Universität Bochum
    • Fund available to Ruhr-Universität Bochum submitting or corresponding authors, launched January 1, 2014 with support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
    • In 2016 maximum award supports 10% total publication costs per author / per author annually, 5% in 2017. As of 2015, author contribution must support 20% of article processing charges.
    • Budget: 2015 (50,074€), 2016 (60,000€), 2017 (95,000€)
    • Limited to publication in full OA journals maintaining a maximum fee of 2,000€. "Open Choice" publications are ineligible for funding.
  • Ryerson University Library & Archives
    • The Ryerson Library Author Fund is "open to graduate students, faculty, staff, adjunct faculty, and postdoctoral researchers at Ryerson University." who "must exhaust other funding sources (e.g. grants) to pay for open access charges before applying.".
    • Funding limited to publication in journals operating under "Biomed Central*, The Public Library of Science, and Hindawi.".
    • Publication in hybrid journals ineligible for funding.
    • Mandatory deposit in institutional repository, RULA.

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  • University of Saskatchewan
    • The Research Services Publication Fund is available to University of Saskachewan "tenured or tenure track" faculty, university librarians and term faculty.
    • Fund activity shown prior to 2009.
    • Maximum award of $1,000 ($1,500 when funding available).
    • Funding limited to "one application per applicant per fiscal year" and "one scholarly and creative work can be requested for support per fiscal year".
  • University of St Andrews
    • Supports access to the following funds:
      • RCUK Block Grant
        • Awarded from 2013 - 2014 in connection to RCRK Policy on Open Access.
        • Publication in policy compliant journal must include funding acknowledgement and access guidelines.
      • Charity Open Access Fund (COAF)
        • Available to "Researchers funded by Arthritis Research UK, Breast Cancer Campaign, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research".
        • Fund launched in October 2014.
        • Publication must be licensed CC-BY.
      • St Andrews University Library
        • Available to St Andrews University staff, launched in August 2013.
        • Publication in hybrid journals ineligible for funding.

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  • Temple University
    • The Open Access Publishing Fund was launched in 2016.
    • Funding is available to any "current Temple University faculty member OR a current postdoctoral fellow/resident/graduate student with a faculty member listed as a co-author."
    • Each applicant may request up to $1,500 total per fiscal year. For articles with multiple Temple authors, the per article payment is capped at $3,000.
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    • The Open Publishing Support Fund was launched in the fall of 2008.
    • Funding is available to any "faculty member, post-doctoral associate, or currently enrolled graduate student ready to submit a completed article for publication."
    • Articles published by "peer-reviewed open access publishers" are supported; "Any open access publication will be considered, provided that the journal is freely available at the time of initial publication with no embargo periods. Hybrid journals that make only selected articles open access are not included in the pilot project."
    • Applicants receive funding on a "first-come, first-served basis to a maximum of $3,000 per article."
  • Texas A&M University
    • Open Access to Knowledge Fund (OAKFund) is available to support OA publication costs for "journal articles, book chapters, and books" and institutional PeerJ membership for "current members of the faculty or full-time research staff at Texas A&M University". Current funds have been allotted, with possible renewal.
    • The fund (or equivalent) is mentioned in this June 2007 conference report.
    • Maximum award of $3,000. Awarded sum is divided "evenly between all eligible authors" for multi-author funded works.
    • Publication in hybrid or delayed access journals are ineligible for funding.
    • Encouraged deposit in institutional repository, OAKTrust.
  • University of Texas at Austin
    • The fund started in 2016 and supports a variety of open access publishing initiatives, some of which result in discounts on APCs for UT authors.
    • Created a deposit account of $9500 in PeerJ for current faculty, staff, and students to use to pay APCs in PeerJ journals or pre-print server.
  • Texas Christian University
    • The Open Access Fund supported by Texas Christian University is available to "faculty, staff, and students" acting as corresponding author for the publication of OA "journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, monograph chapters, and other scholarly material such as data sets".
    • Funding limited to journals which are included in the DOAJ, maintain a "DOAJ Seal of Approval" or "DOAJ checkmark", and maintain OASPA membership; hybrid journals ineligible.
    • Funding for books limited to publishers maintaining OASPA membership or inclusion in the DOAB.
    • Maximum award of $3,000
    • Mandatory deposit in TCU Institutional Repository.
  • Texas Woman's University
    • The fund "provides scholarly funding to TWU full-time faculty members who wish to publish their work in peer-reviewed, Open Access journals".
    • Pilot launched in 2015 for duration of the 2015 - 2016 academic year.
    • Supports a maximum award of $3000 per individual or group.
  • Thomas Jefferson University
    • The Jefferson Open Access Publishing Fund was launched in the fall of 2018.
    • Funding is available to faculty, students, and staff.
    • Authors or publishers with sufficient funding from grants or contracts should not apply. Researchers are encouraged to include a line-item on future grant proposals for dissemination or open access costs.
    • The journal must have one or more of the following: a listing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA); or adherence to the OASPA Code of Conduct.
    • Hybrid publications that make some articles free while charging subscriptions for others are ineligible for funding.
    • The maximum support Jefferson will provide is $2,500 per article or $2,500 per author for the 2018 academic year.
  • University of Toronto
    • The fund was announced in October 2012.
    • Peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters or monographs accepted for publication after June 1, 2012 are eligible.
    • Funding is available to "all full-time and part-time faculty members and librarians, staff, currently registered graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows".
    • The fund will pay up to a maximum amount of CAD 3,000 per fiscal year per corresponding author, on a "first come, first served" basis.
    • The fund will not pay publication fees at hybrid OA journals.
    • Requests for funds may be refused if the publisher appears to be a "predatory open access publisher".
  • UiT The Arctic University of Norway (formerly The University of Tromsø)
    • The fund was announced February 18, 2011. Article about the fund and its rules. See also information pageÌ
    • The fund supports APCs in OA journals (not hybrid journals) for corresponding authors employed by or studying at the University of Tromsø, full- or part-time. PeerJ membership is also supported.
    • There is no financial limit per author but a per article limit of NOK 25,000, and there is no limit to the number of articles per author per year.
    • Journals must be listed in DOAJ (or eligible for such listing) and must be accredited in the Norwegian funding system for Higher Education and Research institutions.
    • 2018 budget is NOK 3,500,000 (roughly USD 445,000) - but will be augmented with funding from the Norwegian Research Council's STIM-OA program, refunding up to 50 per cent of payments made by the institutional funds. This makes NOK 4,000,000 (USD 500,000) the actual budget for 2018.
  • University of Tübingen
    • Fund available to University of Tübingen authors acting as corresponding or submitting author.
    • Fund launched in 2013, operating in connection to Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
    • Limited to publication in full OA journals with a maximum fee of 2,000€, funding 70% of costs limited to three publications per-author annually as of 2015.
    • Funder acknowledgement encouraged.

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  • University of Bergen
    • The University of Bergen fund was launched in 2013, and currently publication costs for open access articles and books.
    • Funding for articles are limited to journal or book publishers "registered on level 1 or 2 in the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers" and outputs released under a Creative Commons license.
    • Funding limited to authors with University of Bergen institutional affiliation.
    • The University "currently has a "Supporter Membership" with BioMed Central. This means that the university pays a fixed amount per year, providing all UiB employees with a 15% discount on publication in BioMed Central's journals, Chemistry Central and Springer Open journals". (See full policy)
  • University of Ulm
    • The fund was announced in 2009 for non-medical publications.
    • In 2013 an additional fund for medical publications was announced.
    • Funding is available to submitting or corresponding authors from University of Ulm.
    • The funds reimburse two-thirds of the publication fees, the author has to pay one third.
    • The funds support hybrid journals.
  • Utah State University Libraries
    • Fund available for Utah State University students and faculty, announced in 2013.
    • Maximum award of $1,500 per-article, limited to one award per-author annually.
    • Publication in hybrid journals not eligible for funding, and fund applicants "must request a match from their department, college, or an outside granting agency".
    • Mandatory deposit in institutional repository, DigitalCommons@USU.
  • Utrecht University
    • The Utrecht University Open Access Fund helps cover the cost of publication fees for academics at Utrecht University who do not have external funding.
    • Articles must be published in journals that are fully open access. Hybrid journals are not eligible.
    • Grants for book publications are also available
    • All publications must be made available at Igitur Archive, Utrecht University's repository

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  • Vetenskapsrådet (The Swedish Research Council)
    • Funding available in connection to grant conditions relating to open access first established in January 2010, and mandating open publication effective 2015 and under a CC-BY license effective 2017.
    • Publication funds available for inclusion in initial grant applications.
  • University of Vienna
    • The Central Open Access Publishing Fund was launched on July 16, 2014. It is run by the Open Access Office, Library and Archive Services of the University of Vienna.
    • Funding is available for articles in genuine open access journals: DOAJ-listed, no hybrid journals.
    • Articles that are published as outcomes of primarily externally funded research projects will not be funded.
    • „First come, first served policy“; up to three publications per year and author.
    • The maximum publication fee expected is EUR 2,000 per item. Higher costs can be covered in individual cases.
    • The submitting author/corresponding author must be affiliated to the University of Vienna.
    • A refund of already paid bills for APCs is not possible.
  • Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
    • The subvention fund was launched September 28, 2012.
    • Funds are available for OA and hybrid journals.
    • Fund is run by the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.
    • Funding is available to "faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students".
    • Funding is capped at a maximum of "$1500 per article and $3000 per author per year".
  • University of Virginia
    • "The Open Access Fund is intended to support U.Va. authors who wish to publish their research in an open access journals", in addition to providing funding for the publication of OA books.
    • All faculty, staff and students served by the U.Va. Library system are eligible for funding.
    • Funding is limited to up to $2000 per article, with a maximum of $3000 per year.
    • All successful funding applicants will must deposit a copy of their articles in Libra, U.Va.’s institutional repository.
    • The University of Virginia Open Access Fund was in operation from 2013 through 2017.

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  • Wellcome Library
    • Wellcome Library Open Access Fund supports "funds available to pay the open access publishing costs for research papers, monographs and book chapters that result from research based on the Wellcome Library’s collections."
    • Publisher eligibility for articles is limited to "a journal that operates an anonymous peer-review system", and for books a "recognised academic press".
    • Funded outputs are required to be published under a Creative Commons CC BY license and shared in Europe PMC.
  • University of Wisconsin
    • The fund was launched in 2007 and was discontinued in January 2014.
    • The fund paid publication fees of hybrid OA journals, but had a cap on the maximum to be paid of 30% of fee.
    • The fund will paid 50% of the publication charges for full OA journals.
    • On a per-article basis, funding did "not exceed $1,500" per year per author.
  • University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    • The UWM Open-Access Publication Fund was established in June 2012.
    • The fund underwrites the full amount for one article with an article processing charge under $1000, and then additional 50%, up to $1,500, for publishing in a fully open access journal. The fund offers 30%, up to $1,500 per article, for publishing in a hybrid open-access model that provides paid options for open access.
    • Authors may receive funding for up to $1,500 per year for all submissions and publication charges.
  • World Health Organization
    • Funding availability identified in World Health Organization OA policy, including, "WHO will include the costs of open-access charges, where appropriate, in its applications to donors who support WHO’s work. It will also invite external entities applying for project support from WHO to include such costs, where appropriate, in their applications.".
    • Connected policy effective July 2014, mandating OA publication under "Creative Commons 3.0 intergovernmental organization (IGO)" license or author deposit into Europe PMC.
  • Universität Würzburg
    • Fund available to Universität Würzburg authors acting as corresponding author.
    • Fund launched in 2011, operating in connection to Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) from 2011 to 2016.
    • Funded publication must be licensed under CC-BY and include fund acknowledgement.
    • Fund available to cover up to 60% of publication costs; applications limited to fees up to 2,000€.
    • Funded publications included in OPUS Würzburg.

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  • University of York, UK
    • The Open Access Archaeology Fund was launched in 2016 and aims to support the publishing and archiving costs of researchers who have no means of institutional support; awards began in 2017.
    • It is administered by Internet Archaeology and the Archaeology Data Service.
    • Fund awards vary in size and are allocated through application. "Funds will be prioritised to those without means of institutional support, namely early career researchers and independent scholars who deposit an archive with ADS or who have been accepted for publication in Internet Archaeology."
  • York University Libraries, Canada
    • The York University Libraries OA Author Fund is available for "All York, faculty, graduate students, staff, post-docs, emeriti, and visiting scholars who have had a peer-reviewed article accepted to an Open Access journal that meets the funding criteria.".
    • Funding limited to one publication per applicant annually, and funded publication must have a York University affiliated first author.
    • Publication in subscription-based and hybrid journals including journals that maintain "embargoes that limit Open Access to content for a specific time period after publication, if it is longer than the publication timeline required by the funding source." are not eligible for funding.
    • Mandatory deposit in institutional repository, YorkSpace.

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garbagePLOS Open Access Fund provides support for institutions and individuals
    • Individual authors can be directly funded through PLOS, particularly in low- and middle- income countries as part of the PLOS Global Participation Initiative
    • Institutions are offered either accounts, which will cover the full fees, or memberships, which will partially cover fees.
  • University of Portsmouth
    • The fund offers APC funds that are only available to authors who can demonstrate that they have no other sources (e.g. their departments) from which they can meet the costs, and that paying an APC to publish in the specified journal can be justified.
    • Funding from the University may be obtained through application.
    • APC discount deals are also available.
  • University of Potsdam (Brandenburg, Germany)
    • The fund operates with support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft since 2014 through the Open-Access Publishing Programme
    • Funding is available to submitting or corresponding authors from University of Potsdam
    • Limited to publication in fully peer-reviewed OA journals with fees up to 2,000€. Publication in hybrid journals, like Springer Open Choice, ineligible for funding. Budget in 2017: 42.500€
    • A statement of acknowledgment is required in the article ("We acknowledge the support of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) and Open Access Publication Fund of Potsdam University.")
  • Portland State University

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  • Queensland University of Technology
    • The fund was launched in 2008 as an experiment limited to PLoS OA journals; it has since expanded its scope.
    • The fund does not cover hybrid journals.
    • See a February 2011 article about the QUT fund for more details.

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  • University of Regensburg
    • The fund was announced in February 2011.
    • The fund does not support hybrid journals.
    • Funding is capped at a maximum of € 2000 per article.
    • Funding is available to University of Regensburg researchers who are the submitting or corresponding author of a work.
  • Research Council of Norway
    • Funds announced in June 2016; included in Principles for Open Access to Scientific Publications revised in June 2013 outlining "In the period 2014–2019 the Research Council will implement a funding scheme to cover fees incurred by Norwegian research institutions for publication in open access journals.".
    • Initial fund of 8,000,000kr (about USD 1,300,000) as of 2014.
    • Fund supports a maximum of 50% of total costs associated with OA publication.
    • Recommended publication in openly licensed journals included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ and rated "levels 1 or 2 in the registry of publication channels from the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions.", as shown in attached document.
  • University of Rhode Island (URI)
  • Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) (Riksbank Tercentenary Foundation)
    • The fund was announced on June 1, 2010.
    • It will provide grantees with up to 30,000 SEK per project.
    • Based on terms in effect for grant recipients awarded from 2013 forward, publication funds are provided to all Riksbankens Jubileimsfond (RJ) project grant recipients.
      • Grants "up to three years' duration that fund positions corresponding to up to 75% of full-time employment" are awarded 50,000kr. Funding varied for "larger projects".
      • Programs instead "must be included in the programme budget applied for.", and are not awarded on an included basis.
      • Maximum embargo period of 6 months, with mandatory deposit upon publication "If the researcher opts for parallel publishing", with encouraged deposit from publication in Open Access journals.
  • University of Rostock (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany)
    • The fund launched 2017 and operates with support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft since 2016 through the Open-Access Publishing Programme
    • Funding is available to submitting or corresponding authors from University of Rostock
    • Limited to publication in fully peer-reviewed OA journals with fees up to 2,000€. Publication in hybrid journals, like Springer Open Choice, ineligible for funding.
    • Publication of University Medicine Rostock require OA-Journal with Impact Factor.
    • A statement of acknowledgment is required in the article ("We acknowledge financial support by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Universität Rostock/Universitätsmedizin Rostock within the funding programme Open Access Publishing.")
  • Royal Holloway, University of London
    • The Open Access Fund for article processing charges (APCs)
    • Courtesy of a RCUK block grant
    • Provides £81,627 in total for 2013-2014, rising to £96,031 for 2014-2015
    • Pays APCs for journals that provides immediate and unrestricted access to articles via their own website with CC-BY licenses.
  • Ruhr-Universität Bochum
    • Fund available to Ruhr-Universität Bochum submitting or corresponding authors, launched January 1, 2014 with support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
    • In 2016 maximum award supports 10% total publication costs per author / per author annually, 5% in 2017. As of 2015, author contribution must support 20% of article processing charges.
    • Budget: 2015 (50,074€), 2016 (60,000€), 2017 (95,000€)
    • Limited to publication in full OA journals maintaining a maximum fee of 2,000€. "Open Choice" publications are ineligible for funding.
  • Ryerson University Library & Archives
    • The Ryerson Library Author Fund is "open to graduate students, faculty, staff, adjunct faculty, and postdoctoral researchers at Ryerson University." who "must exhaust other funding sources (e.g. grants) to pay for open access charges before applying.".
    • Funding limited to publication in journals operating under "Biomed Central*, The Public Library of Science, and Hindawi.".
    • Publication in hybrid journals ineligible for funding.
    • Mandatory deposit in institutional repository, RULA.

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  • Technische Universität Dresden
  • Technische Universität München
    • The TUM Open Access Publishing Fund operates in connection to Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), available to Technische Universität München affiliated authors.
    • Fund announced in 2013.
    • Supports free publication in identified SCOAP3 journals in addition to discounted publication costs through additional publishers.
    • Maximum APC of "2,000 € or 2,270 USD".
    • Publication "should contain a reference to the DFG-funding".
  • Temple University
    • The Open Access Publishing Fund was launched in 2016.
    • Funding is available to any "current Temple University faculty member OR a current postdoctoral fellow/resident/graduate student with a faculty member listed as a co-author."
    • Each applicant may request up to $1,500 total per fiscal year. For articles with multiple Temple authors, the per article payment is capped at $3,000.
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    • The Open Publishing Support Fund was launched in the fall of 2008.
    • Funding is available to any "faculty member, post-doctoral associate, or currently enrolled graduate student ready to submit a completed article for publication."
    • Articles published by "peer-reviewed open access publishers" are supported; "Any open access publication will be considered, provided that the journal is freely available at the time of initial publication with no embargo periods. Hybrid journals that make only selected articles open access are not included in the pilot project."
    • Applicants receive funding on a "first-come, first-served basis to a maximum of $3,000 per article."
  • Texas A&M University
    • Open Access to Knowledge Fund (OAKFund) is available to support OA publication costs for "journal articles, book chapters, and books" and institutional PeerJ membership for "current members of the faculty or full-time research staff at Texas A&M University". Current funds have been allotted, with possible renewal.
    • The fund (or equivalent) is mentioned in this June 2007 conference report.
    • Maximum award of $3,000. Awarded sum is divided "evenly between all eligible authors" for multi-author funded works.
    • Publication in hybrid or delayed access journals are ineligible for funding.
    • Encouraged deposit in institutional repository, OAKTrust.
  • University of Texas at Austin
    • The fund started in 2016 and supports a variety of open access publishing initiatives, some of which result in discounts on APCs for UT authors.
    • Created a deposit account of $9500 in PeerJ for current faculty, staff, and students to use to pay APCs in PeerJ journals or pre-print server.
  • Texas Christian University
    • The Open Access Fund supported by Texas Christian University is available to "faculty, staff, and students" acting as corresponding author for the publication of OA "journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, monograph chapters, and other scholarly material such as data sets".
    • Funding limited to journals which are included in the DOAJ, maintain a "DOAJ Seal of Approval" or "DOAJ checkmark", and maintain OASPA membership; hybrid journals ineligible.
    • Funding for books limited to publishers maintaining OASPA membership or inclusion in the DOAB.
    • Maximum award of $3,000
    • Mandatory deposit in TCU Institutional Repository.
  • Texas Woman's University
    • The fund "provides scholarly funding to TWU full-time faculty members who wish to publish their work in peer-reviewed, Open Access journals".
    • Pilot launched in 2015 for duration of the 2015 - 2016 academic year.
    • Supports a maximum award of $3000 per individual or group.
  • Thomas Jefferson University
    • The Jefferson Open Access Publishing Fund was launched in the fall of 2018.
    • Funding is available to faculty, students, and staff.
    • Authors or publishers with sufficient funding from grants or contracts should not apply. Researchers are encouraged to include a line-item on future grant proposals for dissemination or open access costs.
    • The journal must have one or more of the following: a listing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA); or adherence to the OASPA Code of Conduct.
    • Hybrid publications that make some articles free while charging subscriptions for others are ineligible for funding.
    • The maximum support Jefferson will provide is $2,500 per article or $2,500 per author for the 2018 academic year.
  • University of Toronto
    • The fund was announced in October 2012.
    • Peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters or monographs accepted for publication after June 1, 2012 are eligible.
    • Funding is available to "all full-time and part-time faculty members and librarians, staff, currently registered graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows".
    • The fund will pay up to a maximum amount of CAD 3,000 per fiscal year per corresponding author, on a "first come, first served" basis.
    • The fund will not pay publication fees at hybrid OA journals.
    • Requests for funds may be refused if the publisher appears to be a "predatory open access publisher".
  • UiT The Arctic University of Norway (formerly The University of Tromsø)
    • The fund was announced February 18, 2011. Article about the fund and its rules. See also information pageÌ
    • The fund supports APCs in OA journals (not hybrid journals) for corresponding authors employed by or studying at the University of Tromsø, full- or part-time. PeerJ membership is also supported.
    • There is no financial limit per author but a per article limit of NOK 25,000, and there is no limit to the number of articles per author per year.
    • Journals must be listed in DOAJ (or eligible for such listing) and must be accredited in the Norwegian funding system for Higher Education and Research institutions.
    • 2018 budget is NOK 3,500,000 (roughly USD 445,000) - but will be augmented with funding from the Norwegian Research Council's STIM-OA program, refunding up to 50 per cent of payments made by the institutional funds. This makes NOK 4,000,000 (USD 500,000) the actual budget for 2018.
  • University of Tübingen
    • Fund available to University of Tübingen authors acting as corresponding or submitting author.
    • Fund launched in 2013, operating in connection to Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
    • Limited to publication in full OA journals with a maximum fee of 2,000€, funding 70% of costs limited to three publications per-author annually as of 2015.
    • Funder acknowledgement encouraged.
  • Tufts University
    • The Provost's Open Access Fund was launched in January of 2011.
    • It supports both publication in open access journals and the digitization of small research collections for open access.
  • University of Twente
    • Fund available to University of Twente employees acting as first or co-author for funded publication.
    • Publication limited to journals included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); hybrid publication ineligible for funding.
    • Limited to one award per-applicant annually; fund must function as only "received or requested" funding for publication.
    • Maximum award of 2,500€.

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  • Vetenskapsrådet (The Swedish Research Council)
    • Funding available in connection to grant conditions relating to open access first established in January 2010, and mandating open publication effective 2015 and under a CC-BY license effective 2017.
    • Publication funds available for inclusion in initial grant applications.
  • University of Vienna
    • The Central Open Access Publishing Fund was launched on July 16, 2014. It is run by the Open Access Office, Library and Archive Services of the University of Vienna.
    • Funding is available for articles in genuine open access journals: DOAJ-listed, no hybrid journals.
    • Articles that are published as outcomes of primarily externally funded research projects will not be funded.
    • „First come, first served policy“; up to three publications per year and author.
    • The maximum publication fee expected is EUR 2,000 per item. Higher costs can be covered in individual cases.
    • The submitting author/corresponding author must be affiliated to the University of Vienna.
    • A refund of already paid bills for APCs is not possible.
  • Virginia Commonwealth University
    • The VCU Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund is open to faculty, postdocs, graduate and professional students.
    • Funding is capped at $3,000 per author and $2,000 per article within a fiscal year.
    • The fund does not cover articles in hybrid journals.
  • Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
    • The subvention fund was launched September 28, 2012.
    • Funds are available for OA and hybrid journals.
    • Fund is run by the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.
    • Funding is available to "faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students".
    • Funding is capped at a maximum of "$1500 per article and $3000 per author per year".
  • University of Virginia
    • "The Open Access Fund is intended to support U.Va. authors who wish to publish their research in an open access journals", in addition to providing funding for the publication of OA books.
    • All faculty, staff and students served by the U.Va. Library system are eligible for funding.
    • Funding is limited to up to $2000 per article, with a maximum of $3000 per year.
    • All successful funding applicants will must deposit a copy of their articles in Libra, U.Va.’s institutional repository.
    • The University of Virginia Open Access Fund was in operation from 2013 through 2017.

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  • University of York, UK
    • The Open Access Archaeology Fund was launched in 2016 and aims to support the publishing and archiving costs of researchers who have no means of institutional support; awards began in 2017.
    • It is administered by Internet Archaeology and the Archaeology Data Service.
    • Fund awards vary in size and are allocated through application. "Funds will be prioritised to those without means of institutional support, namely early career researchers and independent scholars who deposit an archive with ADS or who have been accepted for publication in Internet Archaeology."
  • York University Libraries, Canada
    • The York University Libraries OA Author Fund is available for "All York, faculty, graduate students, staff, post-docs, emeriti, and visiting scholars who have had a peer-reviewed article accepted to an Open Access journal that meets the funding criteria.".
    • Funding limited to one publication per applicant annually, and funded publication must have a York University affiliated first author.
    • Publication in subscription-based and hybrid journals including journals that maintain "embargoes that limit Open Access to content for a specific time period after publication, if it is longer than the publication timeline required by the funding source." are not eligible for funding.
    • Mandatory deposit in institutional repository, YorkSpace.

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