Five Years of Funding Open Access APCs: Where Did the Money Go?

Abstract

In 2013 the IUPUI University Library, in coordination with the IUPUI Office for the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR), launched an open access publishing fund. Following a successful two year pilot, the Fund has been supported annually with financial contributions from the University Library, the OVCR, the Ruth Lilly Medical Library, and eleven schools on the IUPUI campus. The Fund has provided more than $200,000.00 in support of fully open access journal articles, conference proceedings, and monographs over 5 years. In this session we describe the IUPUI Open Access Fund’s implementation model and we provide a report on its outcomes--including, the authors’ research areas, the journals and publishers supported, and the change in article processing charge rates over time.