Article Processing Fund-Scholarly Communications - Carnegie Mellon University

Financial Support for Open Access Publishing

The University Libraries has created a fund to help Carnegie Mellon authors pay Article Processing Charges (APC) to publish in open access journals – offering up to $1,500 per article, with a cap of $3,000 per author per fiscal year.  Ideally, the corresponding author’s department will also contribute to paying the APC.

Conditions for Funding:

  • The author cannot have grant funding that could be used to pay the APC.
  • The journal must provide immediate open access to all peer-reviewed articles and have a publicly available standard article fee schedule.
  • The journal publisher must be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or adhere to its Code of Conduct.

See Financial Support for Open Access Publishing for further information.  To apply for funding, submit a Request for Funding to Pay Article Processing Charges and the invoice for the APC to the Scholarly Communications Librarian, Denise Troll Covey, troll@andrew.cmu.edu.