33 SPEC Kit 353: Funding Article Processing Charges
Publications must have a standard policy to waive fees in case of economic hardship.
There are significant concerns regarding Beall’s List. The Open Access Fund aims to encourage
authors to retain copyright so they can release their work under Creative Commons licensing. For
that reason, another condition of the Open Access Fund is that the journal must allow the authors to
retain copyright.
We had one instance this year where a journal was not listed in DOAJ but the publisher was a member
of OASPA. We funded that request.
We looked for these qualities in a journal: The author retained their own copyright the journal was
fully open access access was immediate, not delayed.
We review each journal and publisher to ensure it’s ethical and not “predatory.” We search the Internet,
including Beall’s List, to get informal feedback about faculty experiences with particular journals
or publishers.
While we don’t require listing in the DOAJ, journals must conform to the DOAJ criteria in order to be
acceptable. This avoids the problem of new journals not being listed yet, and the fact that the DOAJ was
not being updated for several years.
APC FUNDING PROCEDURES
34. To which department do authors apply for APC funding? Check all that apply. N=33
Library 33 100%
Office of research 2 6%
Individual academic departments or colleges 1 3%
Central budget office 0 0%
Administration (provost, president, or chancellor) 0 0%
University press 0 0%
Other unit 0 0%
35. In which department are APC invoices paid? Check all that apply. N=33
Library 28 85%
Individual academic departments or colleges 6 18%
Office of research 2 6%
Central budget office 1 3%
Administration (provost, president, or chancellor) 0 0%
University press 0 0%
Other unit 0 0%
36. How are APC invoices paid? Check all that apply. N=33
Author or author’s department pays, then is reimbursed from the fund 17 52%
Check 13 39%
Credit card 11 33%
Deposit account 6 18%
Other method 13 39%
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