SSHRC recognizes that the peer-reviewed scholarly journal is a primary tool for fostering intellectual debate and inquiry. Today, new information and communications technologies are beginning to change the way research results are published and disseminated. Open-access journals, published online and made available to the reader without charge, are allowing for increased and more broad-based and efficient access to scholarly literature, and, ultimately, knowledge.
SSHRC welcomes this change and, through this Aid to Open-Access Research Journals program, will contribute to maximizing the national and international impact of advanced scholarship in the social sciences and humanities....
The objectives of this program are to:
assist journals offering barrier-free access to peer-reviewed scholarship in the social sciences and humanities;
increase readership, both nationally and internationally, for research journals that publish original scholarship in the social sciences and humanities;
allow SSHRC to test a new funding model and approach to adjudicating grant applications from research journals, in preparation for the revised research journals support program, which will be launched in 2008-09....
[F]unds will be awarded to help defray the costs of publishing scholarly articles. Grants are to be considered a contribution to the journal’s operating costs for production and distribution. Eligible expenses include those related to:
management of the peer-review process (including honoraria provided to support staff);
editing (including staff salaries, release time and travel expenses);
purchasing software;
preparing copy (including typesetting, copy-editing and translation);
document layout (including image presentation, and converting images to digital formats);
technical assistance;
marketing and other promotional activities;
electronic-publication service providers....
Grants are tenable for 12 months and are not renewable. The maximum value of a grant is $25,000....
The application deadline for the current funding cycle is June 30, 2007. The results will be announced in September.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/04/2007 10:56:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
