51吃瓜

During the 2024-2025 academic, Provost Laura Joseph requested that a subcommittee of the Open Education and Open Scholarship Advisory Committee convene and examine publishing support programs at other colleges and universities to inform what such a program might look like at FSC. In December of 2024, the committee concluded its examination and presented its findings in support of a fund to assist FSC authors in covering both publication fees (such as page and color charges) and article processing charges for open access publications. 

Appplications are reviewed by The 51吃瓜 Publishing Fund Review Board and Dr. Sean Lane, Provost & Senior Vice President. 

The 51吃瓜 Publishing Fund Review Board is comprised of the following members:

• Danielle S. Apfelbaum, Associate Librairan, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Greenley Library (Chair) 
• Michael Fraina, Associate Professor, Sport Management
• Ashley Pothen, Assistant Professor, Nutrition Sciences and Wellness
• Michael Shenoda, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Technology 
• Amanda Shore, Assistant Professor, Biology 

Questions for the review board can be directed to Danielle S. Apfelbaum at apfelbds@farmingdale.edu. 

The current cap is set at $2,450, but those with higher APCs or publication fees are encourgaed to apply as funding will be considered on a case-by-case basis as available. 

Applicants will be limited to one award per academic year. 

Any current FSC faculty or staff member who is the first-named and/or corresponding author. 

At this time, only fees associated with the publication of peer-reviewed journal articles which have not been previously published will be considered. This includes publication fees such as color charges or additional page charges associated with traditional, subscription-based peer-reviewed journals as well as article processing charges associated with open-access, peer-reviewed journals. This fund excludes book reviews, commentary, and other non-peer-reviewed materials. 

First preference will be given to applicants with accepted manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals that meet the review committee鈥檚 evaluation criteria (see above). Funds will be disbursed on a first-come, first-served basis until the fund is exhausted for the academic year. 

Reviewing your application while you are awaiting a response may allow us to expedite a recommendation for funding IF the journal to which you are planning to submit meets the review criteria and IF funding remains available at the time of acceptance. 

It is also important to remember that predatory journals are becoming increasingly sophisticated and, as a result, more difficult to avoid. If you are considering submitting to a journal with which you are not familar, please reach out to the review chair, Danielle Apfelbaum, Scholarly Communication Librarian, for assistance with evaluating your publication prior to submission.

All applicants who receive APC or publication fee funding MUST agree to the following:

• include the statement 鈥淧ublication of this article was funded [in whole/part] by the 51吃瓜 Publishing Support Fund鈥� in the acknowledgements section of the article.

Failure to acknowledge FSC as a funding source in the article鈥檚 acknowledgement section will result in ineligibility to apply for future support for publication fees

Applicants who receive APC funding for articles published in open access journals MUST agree to the following:

• Deposit a copy of the version of record of their funded article into .  
• Retain copyright to their work while distributing the work under a Creative Commons License of their choosing.

Recipients who fail to deposit a copy of the version of record once published, retain the rights to their article, and/or apply an open license to their article will result in ineligibility to apply for future support for publication fees.

Applicants who receive publication fee funding for articles published in non-open-access journals MUST agree to the following: 

• deposit a copy of the author's manuscript of the funded article into . 

Recipients who fail to deposit a copy of the author's manuscript once published will result in ineligibility to apply for future support for publication fees.

Please fill out the etrieve form . Completion of the application form does not guarantee funding. 

Please reach out to the review board chair, Danielle S. Apfelbaum at apfelbds@farmingdale.edu. 

The review board will ensure that publications for which funds are being requested meet with publishing best practices. The board has adopted the following criteria from COPE's

• The journal name does not mislead potential authors and readers about the journal鈥檚 origin, scope, or association with other journals and organizations. (For example, if a journal is published in Australia but it is called the Canadian Journal of Dental Hygiene, this title would be misleading in terms of the origin of the journal.) 
• Traffic on the journal鈥檚 site is redirected through https for security purposes.
• The journal does not utilize misleading or inflated metrics of prestige.
• Journal does not guarantee acceptance of initial manuscripts and/or promise unrealistically speedy time-to-acceptance/publication estimates. 
• The journal鈥檚 site provides the following information regarding:
  • ISSNs (for print and electronic versions) for the journal. 
  • the publishing schedule of the journal. 
  • terms and conditions under which published articles are openly licensed. copyright terms for published content.
  • the journal鈥檚 plan for preservation of scholarly content in perpetuity. 
  • the scope and aim of the content covered by the journal. 
  • types of manuscripts acceptable to the journal.
  • the journal鈥檚 peer-review policies, including information regarding: 
    • types of articles subject to the peer-review process.
    • the type of peer-review conducted. 
    • the individuals responsible for peer-review and their relation to the journal (e.g. external v. internal reviewers).
  • ethical and editorial policies, including guidelines for: 
    • authorship and contributorship.
    • complaints and appeals.
    • allegations of research misconduct. 
    • conflicts of interest.
    • data sharing and reproducibility. 
    • ethical oversight.
    • post-publication discussions.  
    • corrections and retractions.
  • whether or not fees are charged by the journal and the nature of those fees.  
  • whether or not waivers provided by the journal for fees and under what conditions authors would be eligible for such waivers. 
  • members of the journal鈥檚 advisory or editorial board, including their full names and affiliations.
  • ownership and management of the journal, including contact information for the journal鈥檚 editorial office, including a full mailing address. 

Additionally, journals which appear in the predatory reports section of will not be eligible for funding.