Pepperdine faculty, staff and current students. Student authors must collaborate with a Pepperdine professor who can serve either as the primary author (first author listed) or senior author (last author listed).
Journal article funding is capped at $2,000 for a single article and $3,000 is the maximum funding for a book. A single author can receive a maximum of $3,000 over a fiscal year.
Articles, chapters and books must be accepted for publication before a funding application can be submitted. If your application for Library funding has been approved, please contact Marc.Vinyard@pepperderdine.edu with the invoice and the Library will pay the publisher directly.
Yes, if an author receives a grant that provides funding for open access processing charges, they are expected to use those funds before applying for library funding. If the grant funds aren't sufficient to cover the open access expenses, authors can apply for a library grant to cover the remaining charges. Authors are also expected to request school and departmental funds before submitting an application to the library. In many cases, authors must secure funding from a variety of sources and the Pepperdine Library is a willing partner in this process.
Funds are granted on a first-come, first-serve basis. If the library's open access funds have been exhausted during a fiscal year, the fund will be suspended until the next fiscal year.
As a member of the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC), Pepperdine Libraries is part of several read-and-publish agreements allowing Pepperdine-affiliated authors to publish articles open access at no cost. As part of their agreement, the publishers listed below will cover the article processing charges on research articles accepted for publication in their journals. For articles written by more than one person, the author listed as the corresponding author must be from Pepperdine to be eligible for the article processing charge waiver.
American Chemical Society (valid until December 31, 2025)
Any Pepperdine corresponding authors who wish to publish open access in all 79 subscription-based and fully open access American Chemical Society journals can do so through a discounted article processing charge of $3,000. Those who do not have research funds to pay the discounted article processing charge can request full funding from SCELC.
If an author has grant funding for open access publishing, authors receive a discounted $3,000 open access article processing charge. If the author does not have grant funding for the article processing charge, the author can still choose to publish open access. When they are asked if they have research funds to pay for the article processing charge, they should select “seek funding” which will route the request to the SCELC subscription pool.
Cambridge University Press (valid until December 31, 2024)
Springer (valid until December 31, 2024)
Any Pepperdine corresponding authors who wishes to publish open access in any of the 2,068 hybrid journals contained within Springer, Palgrave, society-owned academic journals on Nature.com, or Adis collections is eligible as long as their original paper, review paper, brief communication, or continuing education publication is accepted. Two caveats:
Nature-branded or Scientific American content is excluded as are the 279 fully open access journals in the Springer portfolio.
This agreement will provide free open access publication for up to 550 articles in 2023 across participating SCELC institutions (including Pepperdine University), which is roughly 101% of the average number of qualifying articles that participating institutions’ corresponding authors published in those journals over the past three years. It is possible that the SCELC consortium will collectively exceed this cap, but a historical analysis of author open access opt-out rates and other factors makes this unlikely. It is hoped that future agreements will be able to include a higher number of articles and journals.
The Company of Biologists, Ltd. (valid until December 31, 2026)
Journal Funding Scenario:
Professor X published an article in the open access journal PLOS Biology. Here are the scholarly metrics for this journal:
The article processing fee for PLOS Biology is $5,300 per article. Professor X used $3,000 from a research grant and the Seaver Natural Sciences Division contributed another $1,000 in funding to help fund the article processing charges. After paying the $5,300 article processing fee, Professor X still needs $1,300 in funding. After the Library's open access steering committee approves their request for $1,300, they provide the Library with an invoice for the open access charges.
Book Funding Scenario:
Professor Y published an open access from Luminos (University of California Press). University of California Press is included in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB).
The book processing fee for University of California Press is $7,500. They received $3,000 in funding from the Humanities Division and $1,500 from a Seaver Dean's Research Grant. Professor Y still needs $3,000 in funding for the open access charges. The Library's Open Access Steering Committee approves their funding application and awards them $3,000 in funding. Professor Y sends the Library an invoice for the open access charges.
Hudson Vitale, Cynthia, and Judy Ruttenberg. Investments in Open: Association of Research Libraries US University Member Expenditures on Services, Collections, Staff, and Infrastructure in Support of Open Scholarship. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, November 2022. https://doi.org/10.29242/report.investmentsinopen2022.
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