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What is the purpose of this funding?
Who is eligible to receive funding?
What fees does the fund support?
What publications are eligible?
What if the research on which the article is based was funded by a grant?
Will information on what works have been supported be made available?
Where may I get further information or help in requesting support?
The purpose of the Open-Access Publication Equity Fund is to extend the College’s support of faculty and graduate student publishing in established, scholarly publication venues that are not supported through subscriptions.
All aspects of this policy, including the parameters of reimbursement, will be reviewed annually in light of our experience and external factors.
Scholarly open access journals, in support of Dartmouth faculty and graduate students.
Eligible fees include publishing fees that follow a publication’s standard fee schedule that is independent of the author’s institution.
Established, scholarly open access journals, which are defined as scholarly journals that do not charge any fees to readers or to institutions in exchange for access to peer-reviewed articles or other “premium” content. Journals that charge subscriptions or other fees to make current articles available in one or more formats, including journals that use a delayed open-access model, are not eligible venues for publication. Subscription-based journals that charge a fee, sometimes called an “author’s choice” or “open choice” fee, to make single articles available by open access are not eligible. In addition, eligible journals must:
• Be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (www.doaj.org)
• Be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (www.oaspa.org/members.php) or adhere to its Code of Conduct (www.oaspa.org/conduct.php)
• Make their standard fee schedules publicly accessible
• By policy, waive their fees in cases of financial hardship
Dartmouth authors should evaluate the quality of an open access journal’s content and reputation, as well as the value of its services, in comparison to its fee schedule when deciding whether to place a manuscript with that journal, just as authors currently assess quality when placing their manuscripts with subscription-based journals.
Articles supported by other funding, or reporting on research that was supported by other funding (such as NIH, NSF, NEH, or by a gift, or by a Dartmouth internal grant) are not eligible for funding, whether or not publication fees were included in the grant. Dartmouth grant seekers are strongly encouraged to include a line item for publication costs in all grant and gift proposals.
The limit for a single payment is set at $3,000 (at this time, all eligible journals charge less than $3,000, the average being around $1,000). Individuals may be supported up to $3,000 per year in journal payments, in order to make funding available to the greatest number of authors.
In the case of multiple authors, 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.
In early years of this program, funding will be limited. Should demand for support exceed expectations, we may limit access to funds on a first-come-first-served basis.
Articles submitted for publication after Sept. 1st, 2009 are eligible for this program. Once an author has a manuscript accepted by a qualifying journal and receives a statement or invoice for publication charges, she or he should submit that paperwork, accompanied by the submission form, to Barbara DeFelice, Director, Digital Resources, in Baker Library. Payment will be made directly to the journal on the author’s behalf.
Yes. The Digital Resources Program will make information on what has been supported available though this web site.
For information or assistance, contact Barbara DeFelice, Director, Digital Resources, in Baker Library.
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