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Financial support for open access publishing

Support, discounts and other funding opportunities for authors.

Overview

The University of Ottawa Library offers financial support for open access publishing:

  • Through negotiated agreements that provide discounts on open access fees.
    • Check the Discounts with publishers section of this page to verify if your publisher is covered.
  • Through campus partnerships and external memberships that support infrastructure for different models of open access publishing.
    • Check the Library support for open access section of this page to view the list of initiatives the Library invests in. 

Eligibility

Faculty members, staff, current graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and adjunct professors affiliated with the University of Ottawa.

Researchers working for University of Ottawa Research Centres and Institutes and Affiliated Research Institutes.

To be eligible for funding support the uOttawa or affiliated researcher must be the corresponding author.

Articles must be peer-reviewed.

Availability of funds

Discounts and financial support options are subject to change and availability of funds.

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Open access initiatives

The library seeks to support a variety of initiatives that advance no-fee open access publishing. If you have an open access membership or initiative you would like us to consider, please send us an email.

Discounts with publishers

You must identify yourself as affiliated with the University of Ottawa at the time of submission to receive the discounts listed below. 

Eligibility dates may vary between publishers. These reflect dates on which memberships were activated.

Library support for open access

In addition to financial support for uOttawa researchers, the library invests in the various open access initiatives listed here that benefit the global research community.

If you have an open access initiative to suggest, please contact us.

A history of financial support for open access publishing

As a leader in open access in Canada, the University of Ottawa has a strong record of supporting open access initiatives.

Since 2010, the Library has financially supported authors through the direct funding of APCs with varying criteria and coverage. In 2016, the Library revised criteria and introduced the Shared Support Fund, a shared cost model of financially supporting APCs paid by researchers publishing in fully open access journals. This program has since ceased, but during its operation, the Library reimbursed close to 1000 grants to uO researchers across its 10 faculties, funding over $1.8 million in APCs.

In recent years, the uO Library has been analyzing the sustainability of directly supporting APCs. The Library strives to maintain a balanced approach to open access investments, focusing equitable and sustainable options for open access publishing beyond APCs. As we move to align with institutions across Canada and global developments, we remain committed to ensuring our authors can access a diversity of supports in order to publish open access.

The following options enable authors to publish open access:

  • Authors can deposit their publications in uO Research, uOttawa’s institutional repository, without cost, to provide open and permanent access to uOttawa scholarship and ensure wider dissemination and increased visibility.
  • Authors can take advantage of publishers' discounts negotiated by the Library to publish open access. The Library has recently confirmed its participation in many agreements that allow authors to publish open access without paying article processing charges, or for a discount. Please continue to refer to our website, under "Discounts with Publishers", as new agreements are announced
  • When possible, publish in journals without article processing charges. You can find journals that do not charge APCs on The Directory of Open Access Journals, an index of open access journals. Select "Journals without Fees" below the search bar on their homepage.
  • We always encourage authors to choose to publish in journals that allow authors to retain copyright.

Please contact the Scholarly Communication team at [email protected] for publishing advice and continue to refer to the website for updates. 

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