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* This is a list of funds to support OA journals.  The funds may be hosted by universities, research centers, foundations, or government agencies.
** Currently, all the funds listed here are designed to pay publication fees (or article processing charges, APCs) at fee-based OA journals.  If funds emerge to support [https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/4552050 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 add it to the list of [[Discontinued OA journal funds]].
 
* Related lists in OAD:  (1) [[OA journal business models]], (2) [[Discontinued OA journal funds]].
 
* Related lists elsewhere: 
** [http://co-action.net/ Co-Action Publishing] maintains a [http://www.journaloforalmicrobiology.net/public/site/pages/Funders.php list] of university-based OA journal funds and funding agencies willing to pay article processing charges for grantees.
** [http://www.degruyter.com/ De Gruyter] maintains a [http://www.degruyter.com/page/1097 list] of universities and funding agencies willing to pay publication fees.
** [http://sparcopen.org/ SPARC] maintains a guide to [http://sparcopen.org/our-work/oa-funds/Campus Open Access Funds], which includes a [http://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OA-Funds-in-Action-4.7.16.pdf table of funds] and their associated features or policies.
** [http://www.springer.com/ Springer] maintained a [http://resource-cms.springer.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/6990/data/v5/Overview+of+open+access+funds list] until December 2014 of universities and funding agencies with OA journal funds.
 
[[Category:Lists about journals]] [[Category:Lists about institutions]] [[Category:Lists about business models and funding]]
 
== A ==
* [http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/public_relations/oai/index.html Austrian Science Fund (FWF)]
**[http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/projects/peer-reviewed_publications.html Journal articles]: Additional funds to cover the costs of peer-reviewed articles (in Gold or Hybrid journals) that result from projects supported by the FWF, up to a limit of three years after conclusion of the project
**[http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/projects/stand_alone_publications.html Monographs ]: Additional funds for printing costs, copy editing, translations and Open Access (obligatory); all books are archivied in the [https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/search_object?0_0_field=-4&0_0_vocabulary=cmodel:PDFDocument&search=1 FWF E-Book Library]
 
== B ==
 
* [http://www.ub.edu/web/ub/en/index.html? Universitat de Barcelona]
** The [http://www.ub.edu/gaper/gapeicat.html fund] was [http://convocatories.ub.es/cgi-bin/veurereg.cgi?G_USCODI=5202&G_ENTORN=CEMA&IDNC=201009011018490&G_LLISTA=cerca&G_CODI=1035 announced] in July 2010 and began accepting applications on September 1, 2010.
** The U of Barcelona is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The fund will not pay publication fees at hybrid OA journals.
 
* [http://http://www.uib.no/ Universitetet i Bergen]
** The [https://www.uib.no/ub/en/services/scientific-publishing/publication-fund-for-open-access-at-the-university-of-bergen fund] at the University of Bergen started to accept applications in October 2013.
** Corresponding authors from the university can apply to cover APC for accepted peer reviewed articles in Open Access journals and hybrid Open Access.
** It is also possible to apply to cover author payment for other types of scientific material, like books.
 
* [http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/index.html Freie Universität Berlin]
** The [http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/open_access/dienstleistungen/publikationsfonds/index.html fund] was launched in 2012 with a grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through the [http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/programme/infrastruktur/lis/lis_foerderangebote/open_access_publizieren/ program “open access publishing”] to support university OA journal funds. The DFG supplies 75% of the fund, and the university 25%. 
** The fund limit is EUR 2,000 per article.
** The fund covers only articles in full open access journals and will not pay fees at hybrid OA journals.
** The fund will only pay for articles in peer reviewed journals included in the DOAJ.
** The fund will only pay for articles for which the 'submitting author' or 'corresponding author' is from Freie Universität Berlin.
 
* [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/%28en%29/index_international.html Universität Bielefeld]
** The [http://oa.uni-bielefeld.de/en/publikationsfonds.html fund] was launched in 2009 with a grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through the [http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/programme/infrastruktur/lis/lis_foerderangebote/open_access_publizieren/ program “open access publishing”] and has been renewed each year since.
** The fund limit is EUR 2,000 per article.
** The fund covers only articles in full and immediate open access journals and will not pay fees at hybrid OA journals.
** The fund will only pay for articles for which the 'submitting author' or 'corresponding author' is from Bielefeld University.
** A standard acknowledgment of the fund's support must appear in the published article.
 
* [http://www.bc.edu/ Boston College]
** The [http://libguides.bc.edu/oafund Boston College Open Access Fund] covers the cost of publication fees associated with open access journals
** Awards available for all Boston College faculty, researchers, and enrolled students without external funding to cover costs
** Eligible journals needs to be peer-reviewed, fully open access, with publicly available standard article fee schedules, and a policy of waving fees under economic hardship.
** All articles published with funding from Boston College Open Access Fund must be deposited in the [http://www.bc.edu/libraries/collections/eScholarshipHome/ eScholarship@BC repository]
** Annual funding limit per person of $3000
** The [http://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals], the [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association] as well as the [http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ watch list] of publishers with suspicious practices will be consulted in order to determine journal eligibility.
 
* [http://home.bournemouth.ac.uk/ Bournemouth University]
** The [http://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/files/2011/08/Open-Access-Fund-policy-180711.pdf fund] officially [http://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/2011/08/01/launch-of-the-bu-open-access-publication-fund/ launched] on August 1, 2011.
** The fund covers both full OA and hybrid OA fees.
** Authors may "apply for funds on multiple occasions during the academic year."
** It is explicitly stated that authors receiving funds "must adhere to the [http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/researchers/documents/academic_publications_policy.pdf BU Citations and Repository Policy]".
 
* [http://www.brandeis.edu/ Brandeis University]
** The [http://scholcomm.brandeis.edu/open-access/brandeis-open-access-fund-description/ Brandeis LTS Open Access Fund] covers the cost of open access publishing frees for Brandeis faculty, staff, and enrolled students
** Covers 100% of fees associated with open access publishing, with a limit of $3000
** Funding is available for open access journals that do not charge fees to institutions, libraries, or individual readers to access content and do not have embargo periods, including members of the [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association], journals listed in the [http://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals] that allows authors to retain distribution rights, and hybrid journals that allow authors to retain distribution rights
 
* [http://www.brunel.ac.uk/ Brunel University]
** The [http://www.brunel.ac.uk/life/study/library/researcher/openaccess Brunel University Open Access Publishing Fund] was set up in 2009.
** Funds are available for both full OA or hybrid journals.
** Funded work is "expected to [be] deposit[ed]" in the [http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/1704/browse?type=title&submit_browse=Title Brunel University Research Archive], and "articles that are funded should request a Licence to publish from the relevant publisher rather than signing a standard copyright transfer agreement."
 
== C ==
 
* [http://www.ucalgary.ca/ University of Calgary]
** The [http://library.ucalgary.ca/services/-faculty/open-access/open-access-authors-fund-0 Open Access Authors Fund] was launched June 23, 2008.  This was the first OA journal fund at a Canadian University.
** Also see the [http://www.biomedcentral.com/download/info/CalgaryCaseStudyFinal.pdf BMC case study] on the Calgary fund (undated).
** Also see the [http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/articles/mp-berkeley-calgary.shtml SPARC case study] on the Calgary fund (undated but September 2009).
** The fund will pay publication fees only of hybrid OA journals "''that reduce subscription fees in response to the take-up of their Open Access programs''" (December 2009).
 
* [http://www.berkeley.edu/ University of California, Berkeley]
** The [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/brii/ fund] was launched January 21, 2008.  Also see the [http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/02/27_research.shtml second announcement], February 27, 2008.
** [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/oa_fees.html Page of fees] charged by selected fee-based OA journals.
** UC Berkeley is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** Also see the [http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/articles/mp-berkeley-calgary.shtml SPARC case study] on the Berkeley fund (undated but September 2009).
** Awards up to $300 of cost for open access articles (fee, immediate access, and unrestricted non-commercial reuse)
** The fund will pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals, but has a cap on the maximum to be paid of $1500 per article,  with four awards per author per fiscal year (December 2009).
** Also provides funding for publishers. Awards up to $3000 per calendar year for book publishers and up to $4000 per calendar year for open access journal publishers.
** The fund is part of the [http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/01/31/uc-libraries-announce-open-access-publishing-fund-pilot/ California Digital Library Open Access Publishing Fund].
 
* [http://www.ucsd.edu/ University of California, San Diego]
**  [http://ucsdchemopportunities.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/uc-san-diego-open-access-fund/ Announced] in November 2012, The [http://ucsd.libguides.com/openaccess/ fund] aim to "offset open access publishing charges for authors who do not have grant funds available to cover them".
** "The fund will pay up to $1000 per article in a fully open access journal (journals in which all articles are immediately available open access)." Articles in hybrid journals do not qualify for funding.
** The fund is available to UC San Diego faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, researchers, and staff. 
** The fund is part of the [http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/01/31/uc-libraries-announce-open-access-publishing-fund-pilot/ California Digital Library Open Access Publishing Fund] and is being run on a pilot basis.
 
* [http://www.ucsf.edu/ University of California, San Francisco]
**  The pilot [http://www.library.ucsf.edu/help/scholpub/oafund/ fund] aims to "cover open access publication fees for scholars who do not have grant or other funds available to cover them".
** "The fund will pay up to Up to $2,000 per article published in fully OA journals and up to $1,000 per article published in hybrid OA journal, restricted to one article per author, and two articles per lab during the pilot's timeframe. Find more eligibility criteria [http://www.library.ucsf.edu/help/scholpub/oafund/eligibility here].
** The fund is available to UC San Francisco faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, researchers, and staff. 
** The fund is part of the [http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/01/31/uc-libraries-announce-open-access-publishing-fund-pilot/ California Digital Library Open Access Publishing Fund] and is being run on a pilot basis.
** As of May 16, 2013, the fund is on hold due to its popularity, having already run out of its allocated funds.
 
* [http://www.ucsc.edu/ University of California, Santa Cruz]
** The [http://guides.library.ucsc.edu/content.php?pid=388435&sid=3183140/ fund] was lunched in the Fall of 2012.
** The fund, of up to $3000 per applicant per year is available for UC Santa Cruz faculty, researchers, lecturers, post-docs, and currently enrolled graduate students who do not have grant funds. More details about eligibility and criteria can be found [http://guides.library.ucsc.edu/content.php?pid=388435&sid=3183141/ here].
** The fund is part of the [http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/01/31/uc-libraries-announce-open-access-publishing-fund-pilot/ California Digital Library Open Access Publishing Fund] and is being run on a pilot basis, beginning in the fall quarter of 2012 and to be evaluated after 12-18 months.
 
* [http://www5.carleton.ca/fgpa/2012/open-access-author-funds-available-to-grad-student-researchers Carleton University Research Impact Endeavour (CURIE) Fund]
** Funds are available for journals that are fully Open Access. By denition, "the content of the entire journal is freely and globally available online immediately upon payment of the article processing fee, with minimal or limited copyright restrictions."
** Funds are available for "reasonable article processing fees" for "eligible peer-reviewed open access journals for which no alternative funding is available."
 
*[http://www.cmu.edu/index.shtml/ Carnegie Mellon University]
** "To help level the playing field and encourage Carnegie Mellon authors to publish in open access journals, at the request of campus faculty the [http://search.library.cmu.edu/ University Libraries] has [http://search.library.cmu.edu/services/apc/ agreed], on an experimental basis and under certain conditions, to help CMU authors pay reasonable APCs to publish their peer-reviewed articles in open access journals."
** The fund payments are limited to $1,500 per article, and capped at £3,000 per author per fiscal year, conditional upon the type of OA journals being published in, and the article author's external funding status.
 
* [http://www.cern.ch/ CERN] (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
** The [http://library.web.cern.ch/library/OpenAccess/OpenAccessPolicy.html fund].
** CERN is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).  See the [http://www.oacompact.org/news/2010/12/2/cern-joins-cope.html announcement] from December 2, 2010.
** The fund only supports full OA publications, "and not for so called 'hybrid' journals, which sell subscriptions and make part of their content available Open Access: the CERN Library has already paid for those journals, so Open Access fees cannot be covered."
 
*[http://www.chalmers.se/en/Pages/default.aspx Chalmers University of Technology] (Sweden)
** The [http://www.lib.chalmers.se/publicering/open-access/fond-foer-oa-publicering/ Fund for Open Access publishing] covers the costs of publication fees associated with publishing in OA journals
** Journals must be listed in the [http://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals]
** Authors must be employed at Chalmers and articles need to recognize the Open Access Fund
** Full text of the articles need to be uploaded in the [http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/ Chalmers Publication Library] at date of publication
 
* [http://hslibrary.ucdenver.edu/ University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus - Health Sciences Library]
** [http://hslibrary.ucdenver.edu/open-access Open Access Fund] is available to students and early career professionals without additional grant funding to pay for any author processing charges associated with open access journals
** Awards of up to $1000
** Only eligible for open access journals that comply with [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Code of Conduct]
 
*[http://www.colostate.edu/ Colorado State University, Fort Collins]:[http://libguides.colostate.edu/oars/ Open Access Research and Scholarship (OARS)] Fund
** "[http://facultycouncil.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=committees_chairs/ CSU Faculty Council Committee on Libraries], has allocated $45,000 to establish the Open Access fund", to "encourage submission and reduce barriers to open access publishing as a scholarly communications option".
** CSU tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible for up to $2,500 of support per year, under certain [http://libguides.colostate.edu/oars#funding/ conditions].
 
* [http://www.columbia.edu/ Columbia University]
** The [http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/coap-fund fund] was launched on February 1, 2010.
** Columbia is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The fund will not pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals (February 2010).
** The maximum the fund will cover for a "single article is $3,000"; for a multiauthor work, "each eligible author can apply for reimbursement for a prorated portion of the publication fee."
** Complete guidelines are [http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/services/coap-fund/#coapfund1 provided].
 
* [http://www.cornell.edu/ Cornell University]
** The [http://www.library.cornell.edu/compact/ fund] was launched September 15, 2009.
** Cornell is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The fund will not pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals (December 2009).
** The maximum the fund will cover for a "single article is $3,000"; for multiauthor works, "each author is responsible for a prorated portion of any publishing fees."
 
== D ==
 
* [http://www.Dartmouth.edu/ Dartmouth College]
** The [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/schcomm/OACompact.html fund] was launched September 15, 2009.
** Dartmouth is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The fund will not pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals.
** The maximum the fund will pay per article is $3,000; for multiauthor works, "an individual author’s support will be set at a prorated portion of the publication fee, which will be set by dividing the fee by the number of authors."
 
* [http://www.tudelft.nl/ Delft University of Technology]
** In October 2010, the [http://www.library.tudelft.nl/en/support/researchers/publishing-support/open-access-fund/ fund] [http://www.openaccess.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=201:tu-delft-open-access-journal-mechanical-sciences-launched&catid=1:news-archive started to pay] the production costs of Delft-published peer-reviewed OA journals.
** The fund covers journal articles, book chapters, and books.
** Fund recipients must "ensure that the subsidised publication will be registered in [https://intranet.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=f10d105f-f055-4fd7-aa3c-3432396ffcc6&lang=en Metis]."
 
* [http://www.duke.edu/ Duke University]
** The [http://library.duke.edu/openaccess/cope.html fund] was [http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2010/10/open_access.html announced] on October 4, 2010.
** Duke is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** Funds may only be spent on articles in full (not hybrid) OA journals, journals listed in the [http://www.doaj.org/ DOAJ], and journals published by members of the [http://www.oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association].  Funds are not available to authors who could use grant money to pay the same publication fees.
** Funds are available to Duke faculty, post-docs, and graduate and professional students.
** Individual authors may not receive more than $3,000/year from the fund.  Apart from that, "reimbursement is on a first come, first served basis up until the funding for a given year is exhausted."
 
* [http://www.hhu.de/ Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf]
** The [http://www.openaccess.hhu.de/open-access-fonds.html fund] was [http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/home/universitaet/weiterfuehrend/pressebereich/pressemeldungen/pressearchiv/news-detailansicht/article/hhu-und-dfg-unterstuetzen-open-access-publikationen.html?cHash=12fe9d8d3e94720a8f262ad6eff20275 announced] on October 20, 2011.
** Funds may only be spent on articles in full (not hybrid) OA journals, journals listed in the [http://www.doaj.org/ DOAJ].
** The fund limit is € 2,000 per article.
** Funds are limited to articles for which the "'submitting author' or 'corresponding author'" is from Heinrich Heine University.
 
== E ==
 
* [http://www.uni-erlangen.de/ University of Erlangen-Nürnberg]
** The [http://www.ub.uni-erlangen.de/open-access/ fund] was launched in 2010.
** The fund will not pay fees at hybrid OA journals.
** The fund will be rewarded to the "'submitting' or 'corresponding author'" of a work, if from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
** The fund awards a maximum of € 2,000.00 per article.
 
* [http://www.ethz.ch/ ETH Zurich] (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
** The [http://www.open-access.ethz.ch/oazurich/policy_EN fund] was launched in 2008.
** The fund will not pay fees at hybrid OA journals using the double-charge model (December 2009).
 
* [http://www.emory.edu/ Emory University]
** The [http://open.library.emory.edu/authors/oa-fund/ fund] was launched on September 1, 2012.
** The fund will not pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals.
** The maximum the fund will cover for a single article is $1,500; for a multi-author work, each eligible Emory author can apply for reimbursement for a prorated portion of the publication fee.
** Funds are available to Emory faculty, post-docs, graduate and professional students, and undergraduate students.
** Funded works must be deposited into the University's repository, [http://open.library.emory.edu/ OpenEmory].
** Complete guidelines are [http://open.library.emory.edu/authors/oa-fund/ provided].
 
* [http://www.exeter.ac.uk/ University of Exeter]
** The [http://as.exeter.ac.uk/library/resources/openaccess/whatisopenaccess/gettinghelpwithopenaccesspublishingatexeter/ fund] is a pilot project in 2012.
** The fund is partially supported by the [http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ Wellcome Trust], so "Wellcome-funded researchers [are encouraged] to apply for funds."
 
== F ==
 
* [https://www.fsu.edu/ Florida State University]
** The [https://www.lib.fsu.edu/tads/open-access-fund Open Access Publishing Fund] supports publishing costs for eligible open access journals and books where external funding is not available
** Awards given to Florida State University faculty, post-docs, researchers, and enrolled students
** Limited to one fund reimbursement per year with preference given to authors not previously funded
** Maximum reimbursement of $1,500
** Only available for publishers who are listed in the [http://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals] (DOAJ), the [http://www.doabooks.org/ Directory of Open Access Books] (DOAB), or members of the [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publisher's Association] (OASPA)
** All publications funded through the Open Access Publishing Fund must be depositing in [http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/ DigiNole Commons], Florida State University's digital repository.
 
* [http://www.ufl.edu/ University of Florida]
** The [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/oa/procedures.pdf fund] became operational on July 1, 2010, and has been extended through the 2012-2013 fiscal year.
** The fund will award an author "$3,000 per year," with $3,000 awarded to full OA publications and 1,500 awarded to hybrid OA publications.
** Fund awards for multiauthor works are prorated.
** The "post-review, final draft of the article [must be posted] to UF’s institutional repository" for funded works.
 
* [http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/index.jsp Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft]
** Launched in Summer 2008. Current status is unknown.  [http://open-access.net/fileadmin/oa-net-work/workshop2/oa-net-workshop-HH2009-VorstellungFraunhofer.pdf Source].
 
== G ==
 
*[http://www.gmu.edu/ George Mason University]
** The [http://scholarly.gmu.edu/?page_id=549 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.
 
*[http://www.gvsu.edu/ Grand Valley State University]
** The [http://libguides.gvsu.edu/content.php?pid=244156&sid=2017089 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.
 
== H ==
* [http://www.uni-hannover.de Leibniz Universität Hannover]
** The [http://www.tib.uni-hannover.de/en/advice-and-service/digitales-publizieren/reimbursement-of-open-access-publishing-costs.html fund] was launched in 2013 with support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
** The fund covers only articles in full open access journals and will not pay fees at hybrid OA journals.
** The fund will only pay for articles in peer reviewed journals, e.g. journals included in the DOAJ.
** The fund limit is EUR 2,000 per article.
** The fund will only pay for articles for which the 'submitting author' or 'corresponding author' is from Leibniz Universität Hannover.
** The fund will only pay for articles "if all alternative sources of finance have been exhausted, particularly when publishing results obtained from third party-funded research".
** The fund must be acknowledged in the published article.
 
* [http://www.harvard.edu/ Harvard University]
** The [http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/HOPE/ Harvard Open-Access Publication Equity Fund (HOPE) fund] was launched on September 15, 2009.
** Harvard is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The fund will only pay fees on articles "for which no alternative funding is available" (e.g. from the author's funding agency).
** The fund will not pay publication fees at hybrid OA journals (December 2009).
** Annual funding is capped at $3,000 per author, with multiple authors being "responsible for a prorated portion of any publishing fees" on a shared work.
 
* [http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/index_e.html Heidelberg University]
** The [http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=6165 Heidelberg Open Access Publication Fund] was created in 2013
** Covers the cost of publication fees for academics employed at the university
** Eligible articles are accepted into journals that provide free access to their articles immediately upon publishing
** Awards of up to €2,000 per year
** For 2014, the [http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/service/openaccess/publikationsfonds.html fund] will have a total of €121,000
 
* [http://www.hzdr.de/ Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)]
** The fund was launched in April 2011, administrated by the library.
** The fund limit is EUR 3,000 per article.
** The fund does not cover hybrid journals fees.
** The fund will only pay for articles in peer reviewed journals included in the DOAJ.
** Funding is available to submitting or corresponding authors from HZDR.
 
* [http://www.helsinki.fi/university/index.html University of Helsinki]
** The institution's [http://www.helsinki.fi/ejulkaiseminen/rinnakkaistallennus/pdf-tiedostot/decision260508_eng.pdf OA policy], adopted June 5, 2008, includes a willingness to pay publication fees at fee-based OA journals.
 
* [https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/ University of Hohenheim].
** The [https://ub.uni-hohenheim.de/85176.html fund] was approved December 10, 2010, with a grant from the [http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/abgelaufene_ausschreibungen/info_wissenschaft_10_01/index.html DFG's program to support university OA journal funds].  The DFG supplies 75% of the fund, and the university 25%.
** The fund does not cover fees at hybrid journals.
** Funds are available for fees through September 2013.
** The maximum fund amount paid per article is $2000, which is available to articles published "between 07.10.2011 and 30.09.2013."
 
* [http://www2.hull.ac.uk/ University of Hull]
** [http://www2.hull.ac.uk/lli/library-services/openaccesspublishing.aspx Open Access Publishing Pilot] supports open access publications by researchers at the University of Hull
** £2500 deposited at [https://peerj.com/ PeerJ] and [http://sgo.sagepub.com/ SAGE] available for University of Hull researchers at a first-come, first-serve basis
 
== I ==
 
*[https://www.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/oafund Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis] (IUPUI)
** The Open Access Publishing Fund was established in [http://news.iupui.edu/releases/2013/09/open-access-fund.shtml 2013] as a pilot program
** Available to IUPUI faculty until 2015
** Provides $47,000 to underwrite publication charges in fee-based, peer-reviewed, open access journals
** Articles publishes through the fund will be available in the [https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/ IUPUIScholarWorks repository]
** Partially funded by the [http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/ University Library], the [http://research.iupui.edu/ovcr/ Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research], the [https://www.dentistry.iu.edu/ School of Dentistry], and the [http://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/ Robert H. McKinney School of Law].
 
*[http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/library/subjectsandsupport/openaccess/ Imperial College London]
** The [http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/library/subjectsandsupport/openaccess/oafund fund] was launched on April 12, 2012.
** Funds are "available for open access publication costs for journal articles in fully open access journals or subscription journals that offer an open access option (hybrid journals)."
** The fund is available to both academic and postdoctoral staff at Imperial College London.
** ICL's OA initiatives are partially funded by the [http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlight-issues/Open-access/index.htm/ Wellcome Trust] and the [http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/pages/home.aspx/ Research Councils UK (RCUK)]. The [http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/outputs.aspx revised policies] of RCUK "means that RCUK-funded research outputs have to be made available on open access from April 2013".  ICL has received interim funding from RCUK (£729,000) to contribute towards the costs of open access (OA) publishing of RCUK-funded research outputs up until April 2013. ([http://iclibaeronautics.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/rcuk-open-access-fund// see press release]).
 
* [http://www.uiowa.edu/ University of Iowa]
** The University of Iowa's [http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/content.php?pid=243634&sid=3701545/ Libraries and Provost's Open Access Fund] "to encourage the University community to consider publishing their research in Open Access journals".
** The fund will also support [https://peerj.com/ PeerJ memberships] for biological and medical scientists. PeerJ, as opposed to other open access publishers, charges a one-time membership fee rather than a per-article fee for authors.
** Administered by the [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/ University Libraries], the fund allows for up to $3,000 for publication in full open access journals and $1,500 for publication in “hybrid” open access journals.
 
== J ==
 
* [http://www.uni-mainz.de/eng/ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz]
** Fund launched in early 2013 after the university [http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/16290_ENG_HTML.php/ declared its commitment] to OA in January 2013 by adopting the [http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/berlin-prozess/berliner-erklarung/ Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities].
** "The fund has been established to support open access publications and receives financial support from the [http://www.dfg.de/en/ German Research Foundation (DFG)].
** A total of €85,000 has been budgeted, with a €2,000 maximum per article. Additional criteria can be found [http://www.openaccess.uni-mainz.de/publikationsfonds-der-jgu/die-foerderkriterien/ here]. 
** The [http://www.ub.uni-mainz.de/eng/ University Library Mainz] has also "completed an institutional membership in the Open Access publisher [http://www.biomedcentral.com/ BioMed Central] for members of Mainz University and University Hospital. This gives researchers a discount of 15% handling fee on all items at [http://www.biomedcentral.com/ BioMed Central], [http://www.chemistrycentral.com/ Chemistry Central] and [http://www.springeropen.com/ SpringerOpen].
 
* [http://guides.library.jhu.edu/content.php?pid=315747&sid=2802982 Johns Hopkins Open Access Promotion Fund]
** The fund closed in January 2015.
** Funds are available for Open Access journals as defined by the [http://www.doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)].
** Funds are available on a yearly basis until depleted and are supported through Johns Hopkins' [http://library.jhu.edu/ Sheridan Libraries] and the [http://welch.jhmi.edu/welchone/ Welch Medical Library]. 
** The fund is available to John Hopkins staff, students, and faculty if they are the lead author of the work.
** The maximum fund amount paid per article is $3000, and an author is limited to an annual $3000 award.
** Funded works must be deposited into the University's repository and the fund must be acknowledged in the published article.
 
* [http://www.uni-giessen.de/uni/english/ Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU)]
** The [http://www.ub.uni-giessen.de/faqs/faqs.php?id=15 fund] was [http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/213685/ announced] March 23, 2011.
** The fund will reimburse up to 100% of article processing charges or author charges in gold OA journals.
** Funding is available to submitting or corresponding authors of works that are members of JLU.
 
== K ==
 
*[http://www.kumc.edu/ Kansas University]
** The Kansas Univeristy One-University Open Access Fund was launched in November 2012.
** The fund is a two-year pilot program which allocates $50,000 in two 25,000 annual budgets to "support KU authors who publish in open access journals".
** "KU, KUMC, and KU Law faculty, graduate students, post-docs and staff on the KU main campus in Lawrence and the Medical Center campus in Kansas City are eligible for funding".
** A funding allowance of $2,000 per article is allocated to cover processing fees. More details can be found [http://library.kumc.edu/authors-fund.xml/ here].
 
* [http://www.ku.edu/ University of Kansas]
** The [http://library.kumc.edu/publishing/authorsfund.html fund] was [http://www.news.ku.edu/2012/october/22/oafund.shtml announced] on October 22, 2012 and will go live in November 2012.
** The fund is a 2-year pilot, "with a total of $50,000 to be shared across campuses."
** Funding is available if both the author requesting support and the lead author are "faculty, graduate students, post-docs [or] staff" of KU.
** Funding is capped at a "maximum of $2000 per requesting author per year," and an author may only apply once a year.
 
* [http://www.kit.edu/kit/english/index.php/ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)]
** The [http://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/cms/kit-publikationsfonds.php  fund] started in 2011, with a grant from the DFG's program to support university OA journal funds. The DFG supplies 75% of the fund, and the university 25%.
** The fund does not cover hybrid journal fees.
** Funding is available to submitting or corresponding authors from KIT.
** Funding is limited to publication charges that are a maximum of $2000.
 
== L ==
 
* [http://www.lu.se/ Lund University]
** The [http://www.lub.lu.se/en/publish/open-access/freely-accessible-journals/funding-for-article-processing-costs.html fund] was [http://www.arl.org/sparc/partner/lund-university-supports-publishing-in-oa-journals.shtml announced] in March 2009.  It was apparently launched January 2009.
** Also see the Jörgen Eriksson Lars Bjørnshauge [http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1508/1243 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."
 
== M ==
 
* [http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ University of Manchester]
** The [http://manchesterinstituteofeducation.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/open-access-funding-for-article-processing-charges-apcs-still-available/ University APC funds] are provided by the [http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/ UK Research Councils] and [http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ The Wellcome Trust]
**Available to all academics and research staff, including postdocs, research fellows, associates, and assistants, at the University of Manchester
** Supports gold access for articles or conference proceedings, meaning that the publisher makes the article available freely on their own website, the version of work available is the final version, and the published work is available online as soon as it is published.
 
* [http://umanitoba.ca/ University of Manitoba]
** The [http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/services/open_access/ Open Access Authors' Fund] is provided by the [http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/ Libraries at the University of Manitoba]. "The Libraries initially began supporting UM researchers OA fees for certain publishers in 2010/11. On October 22nd, 2012 they extended coverage to all open access journals that are eligible." See more information about eligibility [http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/services/open_access/ here].
** The fund is open to all faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers at the University of Manitoba
** The fund supports one OA fee up to the maximum of $3,000 CAD per applicant per fiscal year.
 
*[http://www.umass.edu/ University of Massachusetts, Amherst]
**The [http://www.library.umass.edu/services/writing-and-publication/soar-fund/ SOAR Fund] (acronym for "Supporting Open Access Research"), "supports open access publication of University of Massachusetts Amherst peer-reviewed scholarship", launched in [http://www.library.umass.edu/services/writing-and-publication/soar-fund/soar-fund-faqs/ 2014].
**Pilot fund of $25,000 available for the duration of the 2014 - 2015 fiscal year, with a funding limit of $3000 annually per-applicant.
**Publication in hybrid journals [http://www.library.umass.edu/services/writing-and-publication/soar-fund/soar-fund-faqs/ not eligible] for funding.
 
* [http://web.mit.edu/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)]
** The [http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/faculty-and-researchers/mit-faculty-open-access-policy/mit-open-access-publishing-fund/ fund] was [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/libraries-open-access-aid.html announced] June 11, 2010.
** Will [http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/faculty-and-researchers/mit-faculty-open-access-policy/mit-open-access-publishing-fund/#whatpublications only pay] fees at journals that "[1] Are peer reviewed; [2] Are listed in the [http://www.doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals]; [3] Adhere to the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association [http://www.oaspa.org/conduct.php Code of Conduct]; [4] Make their standard fee schedules publicly accessible; and [5] Waive their fees in cases of financial hardship." 
** Will [http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/faculty-and-researchers/mit-faculty-open-access-policy/mit-open-access-publishing-fund/#whatpublications not pay fees] at hybrid OA journals or journals offering only delayed OA.  Nor will it pay fees when the author's funding agency is willing to pay the fees instead.
** MIT is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The funding is capped at "$1,000 per article."
 
* [http://www.mpg.de/portal/index.html Max Planck Society]
** See this undated [http://www.biomedcentral.com/download/info/MaxPlanckSociety.pdf description of the fund].  (When was it launched?)
** The fund will [http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/informationen-fur-autoren/kostenubernahme/ cover fees] for [http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/services/scip_content_oacontracts_de.htm certain journals and publishers] for MPS members.
 
* [http://www.mskcc.org/ Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center]
** The [http://library.mskcc.org/scripts/portal/services/SKOAPmain.pl fund] was formally [http://library.mskcc.org/blog/2010/05/introducing-the-sloan-kettering-open-access-publication-skoap-fund/ launched] on May 10, 2010.
** MSKCC is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The fund will not pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals.
** Funding is available to "MSK faculty, post-doctoral researchers, graduate and professional students, staff members, and students."
** Funding is capped at "$3,000 per article."
 
* [http://www.msu.edu/ Michigan State University]
** An [http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2011/01/scholarly_journals_cost_library article] in the MSU newspaper (January 27, 2011) said that, "The library helps professors and other faculty members pay to publish in these [fee-based OA] journals...."  If anyone can find direct info on an OA journal fund at MSU, please add it here.
 
* [http://www.umich.edu/ University of Michigan]
** The [http://www.lib.umich.edu/cope fund] was [http://www.oacompact.org/news/2010/9/16/university-of-michigan-joins-compact.html launched] on September 16, 2010, for a two-year period.
** The University of Michigan is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The funds are available to "University of Michigan faculty, post-doctoral researchers, graduate and professional students, staff members, and students."
** Funding is capped at "$3000 per submission" for OA journals; hybrid and delayed-access journals are funded to a lesser degree. See details [http://www.lib.umich.edu/cope/faq#a9 here].
** As of March 1, 2012, all funds were allocated. As of June 2012 it has not been determined whether the program will continue.
 
* [http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.html/ University of Minnesota]
** The fund was established in Spring 2012.
** Funding is "available to UMN authors from all campuses, to cover the costs of making their publications available to the world."
** The fund is initially established at $20,000 per year, with potential for review.
** "Author fees for open access journals (as determined by listing in the [http://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals], membership in the [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association], or adherence to [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Code of Conduct]) will be covered in full. Author fees for “hybrid” journals will be covered up to 50%." More details can be found [https://www.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/open-access-publishing-fund/ here].
 
== N ==
 
* [http://www.nwo.nl/ Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek] (NWO) (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research)
** The [http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_82LC99_Eng fund] was [https://arl.org/lists/sparc-oaforum/Message/5368.html announced] on February 3, 2010.
** The fund pays both OA and hybrid journal fees and publication charges for OA book chapters.
** There is a "maximum budget of € 5000...per project".
 
* [http://www.uin.no/Pages/default.aspx/ Universitetet i Nordland]
** The [http://uin.no/english/library/open-access/guidelines-OA-fund/Pages/default.aspx fund] has allocated NOK 100,000 for 2013.
** The fund will cover the costs of publishing in peer-reviewed full (not hybrid) open access journals that meet the publication [http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/omdbh/index.action/ requirements of the Norwegian Database for Statistics on Higher Education (DBH)].
** Support will only be given for items deposited in the university's open records archive, [http://brage.bibsys.no/hibo/ BLIX].
 
* [http://www.unc.edu/ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill]
** The [http://guides.lib.unc.edu/content.php?pid=121319&sid=1262572 fund] was [http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Collections/ScholCom/OAFundAnnounce.cfm launched] in March 2005. 
** The fund will pay publication fees of hybrid journals.
** Funding is capped at a maximum of $1000 per article.
 
* [http://www.niu.edu/index.shtml/ Northern Illinois University]
** The [http://www.ulib.niu.edu/FIND/OpenAccessPublishing.cfm/ fund] was [http://www.niutoday.info/2013/03/04/niu-libraries-launches-open-access-fund/ announced] in March 2013 "to advance the use of open access as a means of distributing the research and creative work of the Northern Illinois University community".
** The fund, currently being run as a pilot project funds NIU tenured, tenure-track and non-tenture-track faculty and graduate students covers OA publishing fees of up to $2000 per article, or per year.
 
* [http://www.northwestern.edu Northwestern University]
** The [http://libguides.northwestern.edu/oafund Open Access Fund] was launched in 2013 as a pilot program
** Awards up to $3000 per year to Northwestern community members for open access processing or publishing fees
** Can only be used for articles accepted for publication in peer-reviewed open access journals that either are listed in the [http://www.doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals] or are members of the [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association].
** Supports gold open access publishers but not hybrid open access publishing
** Funded by the [http://www.library.northwestern.edu/ Northwestern University Library]
 
* [http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Home_page/1177315753906 The Research Council of Norway] (NRC)
** The NRC on June 16th 2014 [http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Newsarticle/A_boost_for_open_access_to_research/1253997204282/p1177315753918 announced] a funding scheme for gold APCs
** NRC will refund HEI publication funds up to 50 per cent of their costs for APCs in non-hybrid, DOAJ-listed OA journals that are also accredited in the Norwegian system for financing HEIs. Eligible articles should also use "licenses for free use". NCR will fund APCs regardless of whether they have funded the research the articles are based on. This model also solves the problem of post-project publications and how to fund them.
** For 2014 (application deadline 2015) NOK 8,000,000 (about USD 1,300,000) is set aside for this, but more funds will be provided if necessary.
** HEIs have to have a publication fund to be able to get a refund from the NRC.
 
* [http://www.ntnu.edu/ Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)]
** The [http://www.ntnu.edu/documents/8354267/0/publishingfund.pdf NTNU Publishing fund] was established in 2013 and is administrated by the University Library.
** Maximum amount of NOK 20000 per author per year (incl Norwegian taxes).
** The fund supports articles with corresponding authors employed by or studying at NTNU.
** The fund does not support hybrid journals.
** Journals must be listed in DOAJ and must be accredited in the Norwegian funding system for Higher Education and Research institutions.
 
* [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ University of Nottingham]
** Information on the fund is available [http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/support.html here].  The fund was apparently launched before [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/06/nottingham-creates-oa-publishing-fund.html June 2007].
** Also see Matt Cockerill's [http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10650750910931913 article] about it in ''OCLC Systems & Services'', vol. 25, no. 1 (2009).
** Also see the [http://www.biomedcentral.com/download/info/FinalNottinghamCaseStudy.pdf BMC case study] on the Nottingham fund (undated).
** The policy states that the OA fees charged by hybrid journals "''can be covered by the use of the University Open Access Publishing Fund''", and provides an email address to which enquiries to access the Fund should be directed.
 
== O ==
 
*[http://www.ou.edu/web.html/ Oklahoma University, Norman Campus]
** The OA find is part of the [http://vpr-norman.ou.edu/funding/VPR-funding-opportunities/publication-support-program/ Norman Campus Office of the Vice President for Research Publication Support Program].
**  Funding is provided through an "equal four-way split of costs among the Senior Vice President and Provost, Vice President for Research (VPR), the associated academic department, and the associated college."
** "The maximum funding provided by this program will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and eligibility is limited to regular tenured or tenure track faculty of all ranks, as well as research faculty."
 
* [http://www.ontariogenomics.ca/ Ontario Genomics Institute]
** The [http://www.ontariogenomics.ca/research/ogi-genomics-publication-fund-gpf fund] was [http://pharmalive.com/News/index.cfm?articleid=705686&categoryid=54 announced] on May 19, 2010.
** The fund will pay no more than $3,000 CAD per article.
** The fund is limited to high-impact OA journals (impact factor of 8 or above, or named on a [http://www.ontariogenomics.ca/sites/default/files/GPF_Charter_0.pdf special OGI list]) and requires authors to submit the fund-supported work to a repository, too.
** Funds are awarded to primary or corresponding authors from Ontario-based institutions.
** Funding is set aside for 30 articles to be supported on a first-come, first-serve basis.
 
* [http://www.uoregon.edu/ University of Oregon]
** The [http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scis/sc/oaps.html fund] was launched on April 1, 2009 and is funded through the spring of 2012.
** Hybrid and delayed-access journals are not supported.
** Funding is capped at "$1,000 per article" and "$3,000 per person over the period of this pilot project."
** Funding is available to both "peer-reviewed scholarly article[s] or monograph[s]."
 
* [http://www.uio.no/english/ University of Oslo]
** Publication [http://www.ub.uio.no/om/aktuelt/aktuelle-saker/2013/publiseringsfond.html fund] was established in 2013. The fund is administered by the University Library.
** Publishing in hybrid journals is not supported.
** Journals must be listed in DOAJ.
** NOK 500.000 was allocated in 2013.
 
*[http://www.hioa.no/eng/ Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA)]
** Introduced an open access policy in September 2011, with an [https://oda.hio.no/jspui/ open digital archive (ODA)] with [http://www.hioa.no/eng/Learning-Centre-and-Library/Make-your-research-known/Cristin/Self-archiving-in-Cristin/ self-achiving options].
** HiOA has also [http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5770/ launched a publication fund] to cover APCs, starting in 2013 with a budget of NOK 300,000.
 
* [http://www.uottawa.ca/welcome.html University of Ottawa]
** The [http://www.oa.uottawa.ca/uo-initiatives-afund.jsp?language=en fund] was  [https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/5286.html announced] on December 8, 2009.
** Ottawa is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** Hybrid OA journals are supported only if the journals "make articles available immediately or allow open access self-archiving immediately upon publication (no embargo period imposed)."
** Funding is available to "all full-time and part-time faculty members, staff, currently registered graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and adjunct professors."
** Authors may apply for funds for a total of "two (2) publications per fiscal year."
** Funding is available for both book chapters and journal articles.
** Funded work must be deposited in the University of Ottawa's repository.
 
== P ==
* [www.plos.org PLOS]
** [http://www.plos.org/publications/publication-fees/open-access-funds/ PLOS 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 [http://www.plos.org/newsroom/viewpoints/global-participation-initiative/ PLOS Global Participation Initiative]
** Institutions are offered either accounts, which will cover the full fees, or memberships, which will partially cover fees.
 
== Q ==
 
* [http://www.qut.edu.au/ Queensland University of Technology]
** The [http://libguides.library.qut.edu.au/content.php?pid=84068&sid=624559 fund] was launched in 2008 as an experiment limited to [http://www.plos.org/ PLoS] OA journals; it has since expanded its scope.
** The fund does not cover hybrid journals.
** See a February 2011 [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/39416/ article] about the QUT fund for more details.
 
== R ==
 
* [http://www.uni-regensburg.de/ University of Regensburg]
** The [http://oa.uni-regensburg.de/ fund] was [http://goo.gl/qEpfg 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.
 
* [http://ww2.uri.edu/ University of Rhode Island] (URI)
** The [http://uri.libguides.com/oafund URI Open Access Fund] helps cover the cost of open access publication fees for URI faculty who do not have other sources of funding.
** Created in December 2013 after URI signed the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE)
** Available for full-time faculty
** Only articles accepted to open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals are eligible
** Journals must be listed in the [http://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals] and adhere to the [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association's Code of Conduct]
 
* [http://www.rj.se/ Riksbankens Jubileumsfond] (Riksbank Tercentenary Foundation) (Sweden)
** The [http://www.rj.se/english/projects/open_access_guidelines fund] was [http://www.rj.se/svenska/1023/var/newsID/311 announced] on June 1, 2010.
** It will provide grantees with up to 30,000 SEK per project.
 
* [https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/home.aspx Royal Holloway, University of London]
** The [https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/library/documents/policies/rhulapcpolicy.pdf Open Access Fund] for article processing charges (APCs)
** Courtesy of a [http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/121108/ 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.
 
== S ==
 
* [http://www.sfu.ca/ Simon Fraser University (SFU)]
** The [http://www.lib.sfu.ca/collections/scholarly-publishing/sfu-open-access-fund fund] was [http://www.lib.sfu.ca/node/10281 announced] in February 2010.
** SFU "faculty, staff or graduate students" may apply for funding.
** The fund wll not pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals.
** Authors may ask for up to $10,000 per year.
** Simon Fraser joined the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE) on [http://www.sfu.ca/vpresearch/news/compact-open-access.html October 21, 2010].
 
* [http://www.swansea.ac.uk/ Swansea University (Prifysgol Abertawe)]
** The [http://www.swansea.ac.uk/iss/researchsupport/apc/#d.en.173057 fund] helps cover the cost of Article Processing Chargers (APCs) for articles funded by the Research Council of the United Kingdom [http://www.swansea.ac.uk/iss/researchsupport/apc/#d.en.173057 (RCUK)]
** Only supports gold open access, meaning the article needs to be immediately available, at no cost to readers with unlimited non-commercial re-use.
 
== T ==
 
* [http://www.utk.edu/ University of Tennessee, Knoxville]
** The [http://www.lib.utk.edu/openpub/ Open Publishing Support Fund] was [http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=54646 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."
* [http://www.tamu.edu/ Texas A&M University]
** The fund (or equivalent) is mentioned in this June 2007 [http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/summary_of_biomed_central_s conference report].
 
*[http://www.twu.edu/ Texas Woman's University]
**The [http://www.twu.edu/library/oafund.asp 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.
 
* [http://www.utoronto.ca/ University of Toronto]
** The [http://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/open-access-author-fund-policies 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".
 
* [http://en.uit.no/startsida UiT The Arctic University of Norway (formerly The University of Tromsø)]
** The [http://www2.uit.no/ikbViewer/Content/225285/Retningslinjer_2011-02-15.doc fund] was [http://www2.uit.no/ikbViewer/page/ansatte/organisasjon/artikkel?p_document_id=225287&p_dimension_id=&p_menu=&p_lang= announced] February 18, 2011. [http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/4908 Article] about the fund and its rules. See also [http://uit.no/ub/publisering/art?p_document_id=225287&p_lang=2 information page]Ì
** 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. [https://peerj.com/ PeerJ] membership is also supported.
** There is no financial limit per article or per author, nor a limit to the number of articles per author per year.
** Journals must be listed in DOAJ (or eligible for such listing) and must be [http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/ accredited] in the Norwegian funding system for Higher Education and Research institutions.
** 2014 budget is NOK 1,300,000 (roughly USD 210,000).
 
* [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University]
**  The [http://sites.tufts.edu/scholarlycommunication/?page_id=340 Provost's Open Access Fund] was [http://uit.tufts.edu/?pid=738 launched] in January of 2011.
** It supports both publication in open access journals and the digitization of small research collections for open access.
 
== U ==
 
*[http://www.uib.no/en/ University of Bergen]
** The fund was launched in 2013.
** 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 [http://www.uib.no/ub/tjenester/vitenskapelig-publisering/open-access/ full policy])
 
* [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/ University College London (UCL)]
** UCL has a central open access fund for UCL corresponding authors, in addition to [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/rcuk.shtml Research Councils UK (RCUK)] and [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/wellcome.shtml COAF] funds. UCL recommends Green open access for papers not funded by RCUK/COAF, where available.
** The Open Access Team provides support to UCL authors with compliance and funding issues, including with the [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/rcuk.shtml Research Councils UK (RCUK)] and [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/wellcome.shtml COAF] open access policies
 
* [http://www.uni-ulm.de/ University of Ulm]
** The [http://www.uni-ulm.de/index.php?id=1358 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.
 
* [http://www.utah.edu/ University of Utah]
** The [http://www.lib.utah.edu/services/open-access-publishing-fund.php fund] launched in May 2011.  The fund accepted applications in May and October 2011, and is considering plans to make the fund permanent.
** Funding is available to any "faculty member, post-doctoral researcher, staff member, or student author".
** Funds may be paid to OA or hybrid journals, but hybrid journals that receive such funding "must plan to make (in the next subscription year) reductions to the institutional subscription prices based on the number of Open Access articles in those journals".
** Funding is capped at $3,000 per article.
 
*[https://library.usu.edu/ Utah State University Libraries]
**[http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/oadc/6/ 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".
 
* [http://www.uu.nl/en/Pages/default.aspx Utrecht University]
** The [http://www.uu.nl/university/library/EN/igitur/oa-fund/Pages/default.aspx Utrecht University Open Access Fund] helps cover the cost of author 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 [http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/search/search.php?m=simple&language=en&p=1 Igitur Archive], Utrecht University's repository
 
== V ==
 
* [http://www.univie.ac.at/en University of Vienna]
** The [http://openaccess.univie.ac.at/en/funding/central-publishing-fund/application-form/ 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.
 
* [http://www.vt.edu Virginia Tech] (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
** The [http://www.lib.vt.edu/openaccess/fund/index.html subvention fund] was [http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2012/09/092812-univlib-openaccessfund.html 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".
 
*[http://www.virginia.edu/ University of Virginia]
** "The [http://copyright.library.virginia.edu/uva-library-open-access-fund/ Open Access Fund] is intended to support U.Va. authors who wish to publish their research in an open access journals".
** 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 [http://libra.virginia.edu/ Libra], U.Va.’s institutional repository.
 
== W ==
 
* [http://www.wur.nl/ Wageningen University and Research Center]
** The [http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-Services/Facilities/Library/Expertises/Write-cite/What-funds-and-arrangements-are-available-for-open-access.htm fund] was launched in 2006.
** The [http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/nieuws?nieuws/@isn=1332&wq_sfx=nieuwsbrief#UK renewed conditions] were published in 2011.
** Funding covers a "maximum of 50% of the costs of an open access publication".
** Funding is provided "in proportion to the Wageningen UR contribution".
 
* [http://zsr.wfu.edu/ Wake Forest University], Z. Smith Reynolds Library
** The [http://zsr.wfu.edu/forms/open-access-fund fund] was launched in 2008.
** Funding is "provided in equal sum from three sources: the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs, and the author’s department".
** Wake Forest faculty are eligible for funding.
** Both OA and hybrid journal articles and monograph chapters are funded.
** Funded work must be deposited to the university's repository.
 
* [http://www.wisc.edu/ University of Wisconsin]
** The [http://www.library.wisc.edu/scp/openaccess/ fund] was launched by August 2007.
** The fund will pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals, but has a cap on the maximum to be paid of 30% of fee.
** The fund will pay 50% of the publication charges for full OA journals.
** On a per-article basis, funding "will not exceed $1,500" per year per author.
 
==Z==
*[http://www.uzh.ch/index_en.html University of Zurich], Main Library
** In 2012 an [http://www.oai.uzh.ch/en/at-the-uzh/funding/publishing-fund open fund] was launched as a pilot program to support open access publications from the social sciences and humanities.
** The open fund does not cover publications in hybrid journals.
** Funding is capped at a maximum of 2,000 CHF per author per year.

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