K-State Open Access Publishing Fund
The K-State Open Access Publishing Fund (KOAPF) distributed its remaining funds and was permanently closed in spring 2025. Please reach out to the Center for Scholarly Publishing at cads@k-state.edu if you have any questions.
History of the KOAPF
The KOAPF was created in early 2013 to support K-State efforts around research, scholarly and creative activities, and discovery (RSCAD) by providing financial awards to K-State researchers (e.g., faculty, graduate students, researchers, post-doctoral fellows, etc.) to help cover the costs of article processing charges (APCs) to publish manuscripts in open access journals.
A key goal of the KOAPF was to help build acceptance among authors for journals that publish articles as open access and charge authors APCs to generate revenue. The program was always meant to be temporary. Having reached the goals for which it was created, K-State Libraries sunset the KOAPF in spring 2025.
You can visit the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to see what this page looked like while the KOAPF was active.
Open access at K-State
- K-State authors can publish their work as open access if the journal is covered by an open access publishing agreement which K-State Libraries has negotiated on behalf of the university.
- Paying APCs or other types of author fees isn’t the only way to publish open access. Searching the Directory of Open Access Journals is a great way to find open access journals which do not charge authors fees.
- Self-archiving your work in K-State's Research Exchange repository (K-REx) is a great way to share and make your work freely available to the public, even if a journal normally charges readers to see it. The Center for Scholarly Publishing at K-State Libraries checks all copyright and publisher permissions before anything is added to K-REx.