Congratulations on your publication! And thank you for choosing Open Access!
To support our faculty and researchers who want to publish their work Open Access, William & Mary Libraries have established an Open Access Fund. More and more publishers are requesting fees for a work to be published open access. Publishing your work open access increases and expands the impact of the work and can lead to future collaborations as well as increased research opportunities. This fund demonstrates our institution's support for new and innovative research publishing models. Keep in mind that there are many different routes that could lead to OA publishing and this is only one of the ways the library can support your research.
The fund is administered through the university's libraries.
Terms and Conditions
All William & Mary affiliated researchers are eligible to apply for OA funding.
Funds are available to underwrite article processing charges (APCs) for scholarly peer-reviewed articles accepted for publication in open access journals and book processing charges (BPCs).
Funding is limited and will be disbursed to authors upon approval and in the order in which they were received. Due to limitations in funding, as of Fall 2024, faculty cannot apply more than once in a 18-month period. For funding alternatives, please contact Rosie Liljenquist, rliljenquist@wm.edu. Invoices for funded articles must be received by the Library within 60 days of the award notification. Otherwise, the funds will be returned to W&M Libraries and the author(s) must reapply.
Unfortunately, we do not have the ability to reimburse departments who pay the fee; we pay the invoice directly from the publisher.
Please download and save a copy of the form prior to filling in. Complete the form, email to rliljenquist@wm.edu, and we will be in touch:
| Publisher | Institution | Notes |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | VIVA | To receive these savings, authors should submit their institution's AAAS number upon acceptance of their manuscript. |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | VIVA | When authors submit their works through the ACS authorship system, they are prompted to respond whether they are affiliated with an "All Pubs" ACS institution. Their responses are then vetted against the active ACS list. |
| Association for Computing Machinery | VIVA | Authors are identified through their email domain, so they should use their institutional email addresses when submitting manuscripts. |
| Cambridge University Press | VIVA | Authors are identified through a variety of data points, including email domain, ROR ID, and Grid ID. |
| Company of Biologists | W&M | Corresponding authors can publish an uncapped number of Open Access research articles in the hybrid subscription journals and fully Open Access journals. |
| Institute of Physics | VIVA | Authors are identified through affiliation as entered through the manuscript submission process. |
| International Water Association | VIVA | Authors are identified through a variety of data points, including email domain, ROR ID, and Grid ID. |
| PLoS | CRL | Includes unlimited publishing in all 12 PLOS journals. |
| Rockefeller University Press | VIVA | Authors are identified through institution's ROR ID during the publication process. |
| Royal Society | W&M | Corresponding authors for select Open Choice and fully Open Access journals |
| Springer Nature | VIVA | Please see the Springer Nature Agreement page for a full list of participating institutions and covered journals. |
| Wiley | VIVA | Any researcher at a participating VIVA institution may use these funds, regardless of rank. Funding is distributed on a first come first serve basis. |
Additional information about the VIVA supported transformative agreements can be found at the VIVA APC Discounts webpage.