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UNC-CH Open Access Author's Fund

The Open Access Author's Fund has awarded all of the money budgeted for 2011-2012.

Application review will resume after July 1, 2012.

Retrieve application form

 

About

The UNC-Chapel Hill Open Access Authors' Fund:

  • provides support for publishing charges related to offering free immediate open access to journal articles.
  • is available to UNC-CH faculty, post-doctoral researchers, graduate or professional students, and UNC-CH Hospitals staff without grant funds to cover publication fees.
  • has an award maximum of $1000 per article.
  • is sponsored and managed by the Health Sciences Library and the University Libraries.

The fund demonstrates the libraries' commitment to raising awareness about open access and open archive publishing alternatives.

Vice Chancellor Tony Waldrop established The Open Access Fund in March 2005 at the request of University Librarian Sarah Michalak and Health Sciences Library Director Carol Jenkins. University Libraries and the Health Sciences Library started providing funding in 2010.

 

Why choose open access?

"Providing OA to your own work is not an act of charity that only benefits others, or a sacrifice justified only by the greater good. It's not a sacrifice at all.  It increases your visibility, retrievability, audience, usage, and citations. It's about career-building.  For publishing scholars, it would be a bargain even if it were costly, difficult, and time-consuming." Suber

 

Open Access Author Fees

  • American Chemical Society Author Choice
    Open access fees start at $1,000 for ACS members affiliated with an ACS subscribing institution and are higher for author's who are not members or affiliated.
  • BioMed Central Journals
    Fees vary by title. Our institutional membership reduces a UNC-CH author's fee by 15%.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals
    Use the Directory of Open Access Journals to find a journal suitable for your article.
  • HighWire Press
    A publisher with some open access titles and many more that are open archive (ie, those that are freely available after an embargo period.) HighWire frequently partners with independent scholarly publishers, societies and associations.
  • Hindawi
    Hindawi charges different fees per journal, usually ranging between $425 to $1075. Look for the Article Processing Charges link within each journal page for more information.
  • Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
    UNC-CH Institutional Membership reduces Open Access fee of first submission to $1,500. All subsequent submissions are $1,500.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS)
    Open access surcharge of $950 provides immediate open access for authors at any institution with a site license. All articles are free online after 6 months.
  • Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    PLos Biology and PLos Medicine=$2900; PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Pathogens and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseasesare=$2250; PLoS ONE= $1350.
  • SpringerOpen
    Fees vary by title. Our institutional membership reduces a UNC-CH author's fee by 15%.
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