Funding for Faculty Scholarly Publications

Full-time faculty are eligible to apply for these funds. When college funding has been used, Hope College must be acknowledged in the publication. The following guidelines are established by the Provost's Office, with the Hope College Library partnering to provide open access publishing support.

1. Routine Publication Expenses

Covers the common, smaller costs that often accompany articles, chapters or books.

Examples

• Page charges for journals
• Offprints
• Submission fees
• Reproduction fees for images, graphs or tables
• Indexing fees

How to apply

Faculty are expected to use start-up or professional development funds first. If those are not sufficient, you may request additional funding through your divisional dean.

2. Open Access Publishing Support (up to $1,800 per article/manuscript)

Support from Hope College Library to help faculty make their scholarship openly accessible. This includes both funding for Author/Article Processing Charges (APCs) and publisher agreements that waive or discount fees.

What’s included

• APCs for publication in fully open-access journals or monographs
• Participation in the Library’s transformative agreements with selected publishers, which allow Hope authors to publish open access without paying APCs or at a reduced rate

Requirements for APC funding

• Requests must be submitted before sending work to a publisher.
• If funding is awarded for articles, faculty must deposit their author’s accepted manuscript in the Hope College Digital Commons repository by following these instructions. The manuscript will become publicly available after publication, following any publisher restrictions.
• Funds may not be used for hybrid journals (subscription journals that charge optional OA fees).

How to apply

Use the Hope College Library Author/Article Processing Request for Funding form. For questions, contact Jenifer Holman, electronic resources librarian.

3. Major Publication Subventions (up to $2,000)

Supports larger-scale costs when publishers require authors to contribute toward the cost of publication.

Examples

• Subvention fees for scholarly monographs
• Edited volumes where the lead or co-editor is a Hope faculty member
• Conference proceedings where the lead organizer is a Hope faculty member
• Open-access monographs that require Book Processing Charges

Restrictions

• No subvention support is available when faculty involvement is limited to authoring one or more papers in a larger volume.
• At least four years must pass before a recipient of a major subvention is eligible for another such award.

How to apply

Submit a formal request to the Provost (provost@hope.edu) with a copy of the publisher’s acceptance letter and subvention request.