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Open Access

Topics in Scholarly Communication: Open Access

Open Access Program Purpose & Policy

Purpose
The Chester Fritz Library is committed to helping researchers publish their work as Open Access. We offer two types of support:

  • Open Access Publishing Grant

  • Transformative/Publishing Agreements

We recognize that publishing priorities vary by discipline, researcher, and publisher. Our approach is broad, aiming to support Open Access publishing in many forms. This policy outlines the kinds of support we can provide and how we distribute limited resources.

Policy
Some of our support programs have limited funds. To ensure these resources benefit as many researchers as possible, the following limits apply to resource-limited support:

Resource-limited support includes:

  • Article Processing Charges (APC) grant

  • Book Processing Charges (BPC) grant

  • Taylor & Francis Publishing Agreement (capped at 16 APCs per year)

Funding limits:

  • If you have received $2,000 in funding, you are not eligible for another type of resource-limited support for 1 year from the date the funding was awarded.

  • If you have received $5,000 in funding, you are not eligible for another type of resource-limited support for 3 years from the date the funding was awarded.

Example exception:
If you received $3,000 in BPC funding, you cannot apply for BPC support again for 3 years (per the BPC grant rules). However, because the amount is under $5,000, you could still apply for a different type of resource-limited support (e.g., APC grant or capped publishing agreement) after 1 year.

Questions?
Contact: Brittany Fischer
Social Sciences & Scholarly Communications Librarian

Policy adopted on 8.8.25

UND Open Access Statement of Support

UND Scholarly Commons

How visible is your research? Do your peers know where to find it? Are you able to demonstrate that your work is being viewed? You can ensure that it is widely available and easily accessed by depositing your work in the UND Scholarly Commons.

UND Scholarly Commons

UND Scholarly Commons is UND’s open access institutional repository. It is administered by the Chester Fritz Library and provides a unified institutional home for research conducted at UND.

Not sure what you can deposit?

  • UND Scholarly Commons accepts any work of research or archival value conducted by UND faculty, staff, and students. If you have a collection of works (e.g., a dataset of research videos, or a collection of archival photographs) contact Zeineb Yousif (below) to set up a consultation.

What about research I've already published?

  • Most publishers will allow you to deposit a version of your journal articles or book chapters on an institutional repository. E-mail Zeineb Yousif your CV and a signed copy of the Scholarly Commons Permission form (below) and the library will conduct a rights analysis on your CV and add all works that we are legally able to deposit.