There are three funds to support researchers who wish to publish their work in open access journals. Each fund has different criteria and a different application form.
The UNLV Open Article Fund supports UNLV authors in the following types of academic positions:
The School of Medicine Library Open Article Fund supports UNLV Authors in the following positions:
The GPSA fund supports UNLV graduate students.
The purpose of this GPSA Student Open Access Fund initiative serves as a means of helping facilitate our standard of very high research activity among graduate and professional students at UNLV. The scope of this initiative is open to all graduate and professional students, including disenfranchised groups within academia as well as any graduate students with a demonstrable financial need and inability to meet article publishing costs within a peer-reviewed open access journal.
The Graduate & Professional Student Association has providing funding the GPSA Fund. The GPSA is providing financial support for this new fund and the Libraries Scholarly Communication and Data Services Department and the GPSA collaborated to design the criteria, application process, and management of the fund.
To apply for funds, complete the online application. You will need to login with your UNLV ACE account to access the form.
To apply, you will need:
Contact information, affiliation with UNLV, name of your advisor, name of your department's office administrator
Information about the article for which you are seeking funding such as your role on the article, title of article, journal title and url
Funding amount requested, and whether you have received funding from other sources for the publication
To confirm agreement with the following:
Final published work will be placed in Digital Scholarship@UNLV
Acknowledgment in the published article that, “The publication fees for this article were supported by the Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA)."
Neither you nor your co-authors have grant funding that supports article processing charges for this publication.
This research was completed in the capacity of your employment at UNLV or as a UNLV graduate student.
You have not yet paid the APC (we do not reimburse authors for payments already made).
The person requesting open access funds must:
Additionally, first time applicants will get preference for funding when the remaining balance in the fund cannot support all outstanding applications. Requests for funding will be reviewed as they come in.
This fund will support scholarly articles to be published in fully open access peer reviewed journals. The fund does not cover articles to be published in hybrid journals (where only some content is open access), books, book chapters, magazines, or other types of publications.
Most successful fund applications are for journals included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (doaj.org). There are exceptions since newer journals, or established journals that have not yet applied for membership, may not be in the database. However, we now ask that authors do a preliminary check to see if the journal they intend to publish with is in the DOAJ. If it isn't, you may continue with the application, but the journal will be reviewed closely by library staff to ensure that it does not display characteristics of a predatory journal. If needed, we will use the criteria from the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) to evaluate the journal further. You may also wish to review the OASPA information to see if the journal you are considering is following good practices for open access publishing.
The Libraries Scholarly Communication and Data Services Department will review fund applications. Funding requests meeting the criteria described above and on the application form will be approved until the pilot funds are expended. If the department is unsure the criteria is being met (e.g. such as the journal’s adherence to OASPA code of conduct), a representative from the Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA) will assist in the review. The content and topic of the article for which funding is being sought is not considered in the review.
While we expect to have a much faster turnaround time, please allow two weeks for a response to your application. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, in the order they are received.