OA journal funds

From OAD

• This is a list of university funds to support OA journals.
  • Currently, all the funds are designed to pay publication fees 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 a fund which has since expired, please include it with an annotation rather than exclude it.

• Related lists in OAD: OA journal business models.

• Alphabetical by institution.

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

• University of Calgary
  • The fund. Launched June 23, 2008.
  • Also see the BMC case study on the Calgary fund (undated).
  • Also see the SPARC case study on the Calgary fund (undated but September 2009).

• University of California, Berkeley
  • The fund. Launched January 21, 2008. Also see the second announcement, February 27, 2008.
  • Page of fees charged by selected fee-based OA journals.
  • UC Berkeley is a member of the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE).
  • Also see the SPARC case study on the Berkeley fund (undated but September 2009).

• Cornell University
  • The fund. Launched September 15, 2009.
  • Cornell is a member of the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE).

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

• ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
  • The fund.
  • Will not pay fees at hybrid OA journals using the double-charge model.

• Griffith University
  • Does the fund have a URL?
  • Also see the BMC case study on the Griffith fund (undated).

• Harvard University
  • The fund (Harvard Open-Access Publication Equity Fund, or HOPE). Launched on September 15, 2009.
  • Harvard is a member of the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE).

• University of Helsinki
  • The institution's OA policy, adopted June 5, 2008, includes a willingness to pay publication fees at fee-based OA journals.

• Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands)
  • The fund is mentioned at the bottom of the ISS page on the IR.

• 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.

• Max Planck Society
  • Does the fund have a URL?
  • Also see the BMC case study on the Max Planck fund (undated).

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • The fund. Launched in March 2005.

• University of Nottingham
  • Information on the fund is available here. The fund was apparently launched before June 2007.
  • Also see Matt Cockerill's article about it in OCLC Systems & Services, vol. 25, no. 1 (2009).
  • Also see the BMC case study on the Nottingham fund (undated).

• University of Oregon
  • The fund. Launched April 1, 2009.
  • From the fund page: "Articles must be made freely available on the web at the time of initial publication (no embargo periods). At this time funding is not available for articles published using an "open choice" option in journals that are primarily subscription based rather than open access....Maximum reimbursement will be $1,000 per article. Maximum reimbursement will be $3,000 per person over the period of this pilot project."

• Queensland University of Technology
  • The fund. Apparently an experiment limited to 2008 and limited to PLoS OA journals.

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • The fund. Launched in the Fall of 2008.

• Texas A&M University
  • The fund (or equivalent) is mentioned in this June 2007 conference report.

• Tilburg University
  • The fund. Apparently launched in August 2008, and set to expire at the end of August 2009.

• Wageningen University and Research Center
  • The fund. Launched in 2006.

• Wake Forest University, Z. Smith Reynolds Library
  • The fund. Launched in 2008.

• University of Wisconsin
  • The fund. Launched at least by August 11, 2007.