Funds for the FY25 Open Access Publishing Fund have been exhausted as of 10/25/2024.

Will the Open Access Publishing Fund be replenished in the future?

No, Libraries will not re-open this fund in the future as it is not a sustainable or scalable model for changing the landscape of scholarly publication. Purdue Libraries will continue to support Purdue-affiliated authors through our open access publishing agreements and institutional memberships with select publishers who provide pre-arranged discounts or waivers on article-processing charges. We feel that shifting our focus toward the long-term transformation of the scholarly publishing ecosystem will accelerate the progress of the global open access movement.

What to do if funding is not available for your journal or publisher. Please consider these other methods of publishing your scholarship as open access:

• Option 1: Agreements that waive APCs for Purdue authors. These agreements operate separately from the exhausted Open Access Publishing Fund. The discounts or funding support are based on the publishers we’ve signed agreements with and the terms vary by agreement. New agreements are added to the webpage as soon as they are announced. See details at https://tinyurl.com/2p84tf3r. 
• Option 2: Write anticipated APC fees into your grant budget. Many funders will allow you to add APC costs into your grant budget. To do this, research open access journals in your field and their costs for publishing. From this you can estimate publication costs in your grant.
• Option 3: Publish in Platinum Open Access journals. Platinum (also called Diamond) Open Access refers to open access journals that don’t charge APCs. These journals are often fully funded by their home institutions, grant support, etc. A searchable directory of reputable open access journals without APCs can be found in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
• Option 4: Exercise your author rights and “go green.” Even if your research is not published fully open access, many publishers have self-archiving policies that allow you to make your work freely available at no cost. Typically, these agreements allow you to place the final accepted version of your peer reviewed article without the publisher’s formatting in a repository, sometimes with an embargo. This model is called Green Open Access. Purdue Libraries hosts a repository of self-archived research for just this purpose called ePubs. Other options include disciplinary repositories and even personal websites. You can check if the journal you’re publishing in allows Green Open Access at here. We offer author resources such as contract addenda that you can use to ensure that you retain enough rights in the publication agreement to make your work openly accessible. To learn more, please visit the Author Rights Resources page. For more information about depositing your scholarship to ePubs, please contact epubs@purdue.edu.

Purdue Libraries remains committed to supporting open access to both scholarship globally and the published work of the Purdue community. For comments, questions, and concerns, please contact openaccess@purdue.edu.