The University Libraries, with contributions from other units across campus, supports open access publishing through direct funding and agreements with publishers. These agreements offer authors affiliated with the University of Arkansas Fayetteville a waiver or a discount for the article processing charge (APC). In the list below, look for the publisher of the journal in which you wish to publish your article and click on the hyperlink which will direct you to instructions for applying for this waiver or discount. If you have additional questions, please contact the Office of Scholarly Communications at scholar@uark.edu.
The Open Access Publishing Fund was created in 2021 with seed funding from the University Libraries and several units across campus to promote open research and scholarship. Today, with periodic contributions from these generous sponsors, it continues to make University of Arkansas research available, without charge, to web users around the globe.
Guidelines
What are the benefits? An individual researcher can receive up to $2000 per calendar year. They may use this total for a single publication or multiple publications.
What types of publications are covered? The fund covers up to $2000 of the publishing charge for peer-reviewed, open access journal articles and peer-reviewed open access monographs from a publisher considered legitimate, i.e., not predatory. (Please refer to the guide Writing and Publishing which explains what predatory publishers are and how to avoid them.)
Who’s eligible? Current faculty, staff, postdocs, and students at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville who are authors or co-authors on the publication.
Are there any requirements or restrictions? The published work must include an acknowledgment of support from the Open Access Publishing Fund administered through the University of Arkansas Libraries. The publisher must make your article or monograph open access immediately upon publication and it must remain permanently open access. (An article may appear in either a hybrid or a fully open access journal, as long as the article itself is immediately and permanently open access.) You must assign the publication some version of a Creative Commons (CC) License. For more information, please refer to the Creative Commons Licenses Library Guide. You must submit a copy of the publication to the ScholarWorks@UARK repository.
How can I apply? Please follow the instructions found below, then complete this online application.
How to Apply If you have questions, please email the Office of Scholarly Communications at scholar@uark.edu.
Application Instructions Before You Begin:
1) Check the list of agreements link to main page with subpages for individual agreements with publishers that waive publishing charges. Will your article be published in a journal already covered by one of these agreements? If so, you may not apply for this fund.
2) If you have other funding (e.g., federal research award, foundation grant) that covers publication charges, please use it so that we can reserve the Open Access Publishing Fund for researchers who do not have awards or grants.
3) Have you previously received funding from this fund during this calendar year (i.e., 1 January-31 December)? Each individual is eligible for up to $2000 per calendar year.
4) Your manuscript must be accepted for publication but not yet published. You cannot receive reimbursement for already published works or to make publications open access retrospectively.
Application Process:
1) Please complete the online application. Incomplete applications cannot be reviewed.
2) University Libraries personnel will review the application and notify you of the decision.
3) If your application is approved, you will receive instructions regarding payment.
If you have questions, please email the Office of Scholarly Communications at scholar@uark.edu.
All faculty, staff, postdocs, and students affiliated with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, may publish a peer-reviewed research article in ACM's magazines, conference proceedings, and journals without paying a publishing charge if they are the primary corresponding author for the article. The ACM provides instructions for receiving the publishing charge waiver when the author submits the manuscript for peer review. Additional information can be found on the ACM open access FAQs.
Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, may publish open access articles in hybrid journals and a few other journals published by ACS without charge. Please follow the instructions provided on the ACS webpage. If you have additional questions, please contact scholar@uark.edu.
There is no charge for faculty, staff, and students affiliated with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, who publish open access articles in journals published by Cambridge University Press.
There is no charge for faculty, staff, and students affiliated with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, who publish open access articles in the journals published by The Company of Biologists.
The Company of Biologists Author Information
Faculty, staff, and students affiliated with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, who publish open access articles in journals published by MDPI receive a 10% discount on the article processing charge (APC). When they publish an open access book with MDPI, they receive a 10% discount on the book processing charge (BPC).
There is no charge for faculty, staff, or students affiliated with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, who publish open access articles in journals published by the Microbiology Society.
Microbiology Society Author Information
Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, may publish open access articles in any RCS journal without charge. Please follow the instructions provided on the author flyer and be sure to use your uark.edu email address. If you have questions, please contact scholar@uark.edu.
Royal Society of Chemistry Author Information
Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, may publish open access articles in a selection of journals without charge. Please follow the instructions provided on the Springer Nature webpage dedicated to the Lyrasis agreement. If you have additional questions, please contact scholar@uark.edu.
Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, may publish open access at no charge to the author. To qualify, articles must be published in a fully open access journal (see the list on the Wiley webpage) or published as open access in a hybrid journal (see the spreadsheet on the Wiley website). Please follow the instructions provided at the bottom of this Wiley webpage. If you have additional questions, please reach out to scholar@uark.edu.
The University Libraries' membership to Dryad will cover the cost of individual data deposits.
A curated repository of discoverable, freely reusable, and citable research data. Dryad provides a general purpose home for a wide diversity of data types.
The University Libraries' membership to Dryad will cover the cost of individual data deposits