CSUF Open Access Article Publishing Fund (OAAPF)

Starting Fall 2020, the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) has been the primary sponsor for the CSUF Open Access Article Publishing Fund. This Pollak Library – ORSP partnership makes CSU Fullerton the leading CSU supporting faculty research and publishing in open access journals.

This fund aims to reduce the financial barriers that might prevent faculty and students from publishing in peer-reviewed, open access journals. It thus benefits CSUF authors with greater scholarly readership and potential citations while simultaneously providing reliable, perpetual, free access for the whole world, including our taxpayers, alumni, and donors.

To be eligible, the journal must be peer-reviewed and fully open access as indicated by external indices such as Ulrich's, the Directory of Open Access Journals, and/or Cabell's. Hybrid journals, which charge subscriptions and supplemental open access fees, and often user access fees as well, are not eligible. Funds cannot cover submission fees, pages/plates/graphics, editing/typesetting, embargoes, or donations.

Eligible applicants must have a current, official affiliation with California State University, Fullerton, whether as faculty (emeriti, tenured, tenure-track, lecturer, or adjunct) or as an enrolled student. The applicant should typically be the first and/or corresponding author of the article. Still, there may be scenarios when another co-author can apply so long as CSUF-affiliated authors receive public credit, preferably in the article itself, for the majority authorship of the article. The fund does not cover full or partial costs of APCs when authors from institutions other than CSUF receive majority authorship credit. Funds are limited to $1,500 per CSUF author every two academic years. Authors with an external grant or contract funds available to cover APCs are asked not to apply; we endeavor to reserve these internal funds for those without external grant support for APCs. Authors submitting external grant proposals are strongly encouraged to budget line items to cover future open access APCs and to "line-fence" anticipated future publishing costs that will need to be paid after the end of the grant.

We accept applications on a rolling basis throughout the academic year. Applications are pooled and competitively evaluated sixtimes during the academic year, with awards announced on the 30th of July, September, November, January, March, and May. Each set of awards can allocate up to $5,000 maximum. Funds unused from previous evaluation periods roll over to the next. Preference will be given to articles primarily authored by junior tenure-track faculty and/or faculty-student co-authored articles.

Applicants who receive Open Access Article Publishing Fund awards consent to the published version of their article being deposited and made Open Access in the CSU Scholar Works repository and also consent to the Pollak Library Open Access Team using their likeness and their publication for promotional purposes.

In Fall 2020, ORSP provided OAAPF to 3 faculty members.

 

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