Discontinued OA publication funds

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

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• This is a list of funds to support OA journals that have ceased to exist.

• Whenever possible, please include the date when the fund became inactive.

• If archives are available please provide the URL.

• Alphabetical order.

• Related lists in OAD: OA publication funds

A

• University of Amsterdam
  • The fund. Launched January 2007.
  • Shut down May 7, 2009 "Due to a precarious financial situation...."

B

• Brock University Library
  • The Brock Library Open Access Publishing Fund 2015-16 was announced January 2016.
  • Application form notes that fund will close upon initial fund circulation; since noted as closed.
  • List of funded publications available.

C

• University of California, Santa Cruz
  • The pilot fund was launched in the Fall of 2012, closing in December 2014.

D

• Delft University of Technology
  • The fund. Launched April 1, 2008. Apparently it expired at the end of 2008.

• Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
  • The fund launched 2011 and operates from 2011-2016 with support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through the Open-Access Publishing Programme
  • Limited to publication in fully (not hybrid) OA journals, listed in the DOAJ. Fees up to 2,000€.
  • Funding was available to submitting or corresponding authors from Heinrich-Heine-University.
  • The fund is no longer available since 01.11.2014.

G

• Griffith University
  • Also see the BMC case study on the Griffith fund (undated).
  • No information available online as of June 2012

• Gustavus Adolphus College
  • The Gustavus Adolphus College Open Access Support Fund (archived July, 2016) supports the publication of books and journals.
  • Funding limited to affiliated authors without funding available from other sources, limited to "one fund reimbursement per fiscal year" with a funding cap of $300.
  • Funded publications are limited to Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) indexed and Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) compliant publishers.

I

• Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands)
  • The fund is mentioned at the bottom of the ISS page on the IR.
  • No longer available as of a check in June 2012.

J

• Johns Hopkins University
  • The Johns Hopkins Open Access Promotion Fund (OAPF), launched in 2012 and closed in January 2015.

N

• Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research)
  • Ceased 1 January 2018, because "today, NWO believes that the academic world is sufficiently aware of OA publishing and its importance."
  • The fund was announced on February 3, 2010.
  • The fund paid both OA and hybrid journal fees and publication charges for OA book chapters.
  • There was a "maximum budget of € 5000...per project".

O

• Oregon Health & Science University
  • The Open Access Publishing Fund was closed following 2012 fund expenditure.

S

• Southern Illinois University Carbondale
  • The COAP Fund (acronym for "SIU Carbondale Open-Access Publishing Equity Fund"), was suspended following the "final disposition of the FY16 state budget.".

T

• Tilburg University
  • The fund was apparently launched in August 2008 and expired at the end of August 2009.

U

• University of Utah
  • Pilot fund announced in May 2013, closing in June 2014.

W

• University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • As of January 31, 2014, the Libraries discontinued the Open Access Publishing Support Fund as the funds made available for this initiative have been encumbered.