Open Access Monograph Competition

31 Jan 2023

Unfunded monograph authors have just under one month left to enter the Library’s competition to win Open Access funding.

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About the competition

Unfunded monograph authors from any University faculty can enter the Library’s Open Access (OA) monograph competition, as long as they will soon be publishing a monograph or published one on or after 1 October 2021 – this includes eligible entries from last year’s competition.

Winners will receive funding from the Library to make their monographs OA. The Library will arrange this directly with the winners’ publishers.

How to enter

To enter, submit a paragraph of no more than 300 words explaining why your research will benefit from OA publication to uml.openaccess@manchester.ac.uk by 24 February 2023. Please include your publisher and your proposed or actual date of publication.

We would particularly welcome entries from authors publishing with fully open access book publishers.

After the closing date, entries will be judged by a representative panel led by Neil Humphrey, Associate Dean for Research in Humanities. Whilst the overall number of winning entries is subject to publisher pricing, at least one entry will be chosen from each School. Go to Library Open Access monograph competition: winning entries for details of the winners from last year’s competition.

The Library’s Research Services team will contact successful applicants in early April 2023. Winners’ publishers will need to submit their OA fee invoice to the Library on or before 29 July 2023. The Research Services team will then arrange OA with the winners’ publishers directly.

If you have a question about the competition, email uml.openaccess@manchester.ac.uk