As part of Purdue University Libraries scholarly communication strategic goal, we “advocate the change in scholarly communication to promote economic sustainability, effective use of copyright, and open access to knowledge for all.” To this end, Purdue University Libraries has established the Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund. This project seeks to support Purdue University research and engagement by directly supporting open access publishing, much of which is already happening at Purdue. By supporting Open Access scholarly outputs, this fund functions to both support research activities at Purdue University, as well as to increase discovery and visibility of Purdue University research outputs.
Any current Purdue University-West Lafayette faculty member, researcher, post-doc, staff, or graduate student who do not have available funds that can be used for article processing charges.
Any current Purdue University-West Lafayette faculty member, researcher, post-doc, staff, or graduate student who do not have available funds that can be used for article processing charges.
If the APC of the journal is higher than $3,000, you have two options. The first option is to agree to ask the publisher to split the invoice. When you ask the publisher to split the invoice, ask for an invoice for $3,000 and another invoice for the remaining balance. This option is preferred. The Fund will pay the invoice for $3,000; and, you will pay the other invoice.
The second option allows the Fund Administrators to work with your department to use departmental funds to pay the overages. To take advantage of this option, you will need to supply the departmental account number and contact information for your department when you apply for funding.
No. However, the corresponding author must be currently affiliated with Purdue.
Hybrid open access is a blended business model in which a journal charges subscription fees to readers, but also allows authors an option to pay an article processing charge to make their one article freely available via open access. In a hybrid open access journal some of the articles are free to read, while others require a subscription or purchase. Typically, any journal that offers "open options" will not qualify for funding.
Most hybrid open access journals support green open access--deposits of manuscripts in an institutional repository. Depositing your manuscript in an institutional repository such as Purdue e-Pubs provides an open access version of your paper at no cost to you, your department, or your funding agencies. While the publisher may have myriad fine print, our repository staff are here to help. We will review the publisher sharing policies, create your metadata record, and upload your manuscript--saving you time and stress. For more information, email epubs@purdue.edu.
Check to see if your journal is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Hybrid and delayed open access journals do not qualify. If your target journal is indexed in DOAJ, it will meet journal eligibility requirements of the fund.
No. The Fund will only cover article processing charges. For additional fees, such as page charges or administrative charges, you must request a split invoice from the publisher.
No. Funds are paid directly to the publisher after the author has provided an invoice to the Fund Administrators.
The Fund policies were updated in August 15, 2023. Previously, any author could only be approved for funding once per fiscal year, whether that author was the primary, corresponding author, or a co-author. The policy was updated to provide increased access by allowing corresponding authors one disbursement per fiscal year.
Nina Collins, Scholarly Publishing Librarian, nkcollin@purdue.edu