Subventions For Scholarly Publications

To partially offset the costs of publications, some university presses ask prospective authors for subsidies. A modest amount of funding is available for subvention requests. Book-length manuscripts that have been accepted by established university presses or learned societies will be considered. Recordings and other forms of publication in the arts will also be eligible for support.

The following procedures apply for subvention requests:

1. Ordinarily subventions will be in the range of $1,000 to $2,500 depending on the scale of the publication and the availability of funding. Typically, subvention requests are submitted after the home department has first been solicited by the faculty member for funding assistance.

2. In order to make the fund as self-renewing as possible, faculty members whose scholarly works are subsidized must agree to pay into the Subvention Fund all royalties resulting from the publication or sale of subsidized material. Payments cease when the amount of the subvention is paid back. Faculty members whose subvention requests are approved will receive a document to sign and agree to these terms.

3. A request for subvention should include:

   1. a brief statement from the author describing the proposed publication;
   2. a letter from the prospective publisher requesting a subvention.
   3. a letter from the department chair (see *)
      

4. Send subvention requests to the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of Research Affairs, mailcode 0043.

5. * A letter endorsing the request will be solicited from the faculty member's department chair by the Vice Chancellor. To expedite review of the subvention request, a faculty member may choose to include the letter of endorsement from their department chair with the original materials.

6. Departments will be informed of the approval or non-approval of a subvention request.

7. Approved subvention funds may either be paid directly to the university press in one lump sum OR transferred to the department for payment of invoices.

   Lump-sum payments made directly to the press will require the following information: Name, address and contact person at the press
   Federal tax identification number of the press

   Transfer of funds to departments will require:
   Department IFOPAL information (index/fund/program/organization)
   Funds will be provided in 19900A state funds and transferred to account 630000