Open Access Publishing Fund

Requirements must be met by a journal for an individual to apply for OAPF support.  The journal must:

• Be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (www.doaj.org),
• Hold membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (http://oaspa.org/membership/) or demonstrate adherence to its Code of Conduct (http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/),
• Publish its standard fee schedules, and
• Waive its article processing fee in cases of financial hardship, as evidenced by its public policy.

The plethora of open access journal titles, and attendant indiscriminate manuscript solicitations, invites caution before entrusting one’s research and reputation with a publisher.   The following site that can help you identify reputable publishers:

https://thinkchecksubmit.org

Authors may wish to publish in a journal that offers the option of paying a fee to make a subscription-based article immediately and freely available online (i.e., the “hybrid” model). The OAPF program does not support publication in hybrid journals although some of our discount programs do include such publications (see below).  Our OAPF program's core purpose is to stimulate and support truly open access publishing.

Mason authors receive article processing fee discounts when publishing open access with the following journal publishers. To benefit from these discounts, the article's corresponding author must be from Mason and use their Mason email address.

See information for authors for important details and exclusions.