In 2015 UC set aside $10,000 to fund article processing charges (APCs) at Open Access journals. The library administered the submissions and payment process, with a committee of UC academics involved in decision-making.

This year the Library is providing an Open Access fund of $15,000. The process for submissions and decision-making will remain the same as it was in 2015.

Researchers have now been invited to make submissions for funding via the Open Access Fund submission page (http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/ir/apcfundform.php). You can get to this page as follows: Library homepage — Research Support page — Scholarly Publication page — Open Access page.

The submission page contains information about eligibility to apply to the fund. Author eligibility criteria are:

• The applicant is the article’s corresponding author
• The applicant has no access to grants or have insufficient funds which can be used for Article Processing Charges
• Preference will be given to early career researchers (i.e. postgraduate students, and researchers who are within 8 years (at the date of application) of academic employment at UC or elsewhere (this includes postdoctoral research employment).)

If anyone has any questions please contact Anton or me.