UBC faculty authors wishing to publish in Open Access books and journals are invited to apply to the new UBC Open Access Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences Research.
Up to $3,500 is available to cover associated fees, sometimes known as article processing charges (APCs), where no other funding is available to the author for this purpose.
UBC’s Open Access Fund supports the costs of making books or journal articles openly accessible without subscription or paywalls. Open access is a requirement of many funding agencies and enables wide dissemination of University research.
Faculty from any discipline may apply but research must be directly aligned with SSHRC’s General Guidelines for Eligibility of Subject Matter for SSHRC and Eligibility of Applications Related to Health. Applications are accepted for article or book chapter invoices dated September 1, 2020 or later.
Please see https://scholcomm.ubc.ca/ubc-open-access-fund/ for full details and eligibility.
A separate fund, UBC’s Scholarly Publication Fund (https://scholcomm.ubc.ca/ubc-scholarly-publication-subvention-fund/), is available to subsidize other costs of publication such as publisher subventions, indexing, image clearances, etc.
Both funds are pilot programs administered by UBC Library with funding support from the Vice-President, Research and Innovation and the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver through the Academic Excellence Funds. Each fund has approximately $75,000 available annually. The funds support a number of strategies identified in the UBC Strategic Plan, including Research Excellence Strategy 7: Research Support; and Strategy 9: Knowledge Exchange.