Open Access Publication Equity Fund
For several years, DU researchers have expressed a need for support in funding article page charges (APCs) when submitting to Open Access journals. We are pleased to announce that DU Libraries is now in a position to fund APCs.
It's our hope that this support removes barriers to researchers publishing in the venues of their choosing and results in more DU research being freely, immediately available worldwide.
For Fiscal Year 2023, the Provost's Office has provided a second year’s funding for the Libraries to continue piloting a centralized, formal, equitable process for securing APC support. A committee of faculty with representation from every school and college at DU will work with the Libraries to manage the requesting process. We invite requests from any member of the DU community.
While this fund is limited to journal publications, DU Libraries is in the process of evaluating options and establishing a process for Open monograph publishing. Like other academic libraries, ours is interested in presses that publish monographs in accessible digital editions (typically under a Creative Commons license) and aren’t tied to a singular publishing platform. In addition, we’d like for Open monographs to be free of Digital Rights Management (DRM) clauses, and we’ll ask that a press provides a copy of the digital edition of a monograph for inclusion in DU’s Institutional Repository, Digital Commons.
There are further and other decisions to be made, and other elements for DU Libraries to consider, before we move forward with a process as large and multifaceted as funding Open monograph publishing. We’ll update here as our process evolves. As always, thank you for your patience and understanding.