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.

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 Writing and Publishing: Resources for Researchers and Scholars Library Guide, 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 the primary corresponding author 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 visit 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 in this library guide on the subpage "How to Apply."

If you have questions, please email the Office of Scholarly Communications at scholar@uark.edu.