Discontinued OA publication funds

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.


 * 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

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.

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.