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October 07, 2007
Seed Money for Open Access Publication Fees
Many well known open-access publications require a publication fee to offset publication costs. An example of this is the Public Library of Science whose publication fees and FAQs about them can be found here. These fees can be a deterrent to prospective authors who do not have the funds to pay them.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Office of Scholarly Communication and Publication is promoting the use of library seed money to support open-access publication fees and digital publishing for its faculty and staff. This money can be used to pay publication fees and to provide matching funds/seed money for the publication of open-access books, conference proceedings, and new electronic journals. Guidelines for publishing open-access items that receive this support as well as examples of library funded projects can be found on the library's website under the heading "Seed Money for Open Access." It will be interesting to see if these funds will overcome author deterrents and to see if other institutions follow in the University of Wisconsin's footsteps.
--posted by Lauren Seney
Posted by colldev at October 7, 2007 08:15 PM