Librarians are available to visit your class or meeting to discuss publishing choices, open access publishing, predatory publishers, impact metrics, and more with students and faculty. To arrange a speaker or consultation, please contact digital-scholarship@sfu.ca.

SFU Library support for open access publishing

 SFU Central Open Access Fund 
Available to eligible SFU authors who can apply for funding towards article processing charges for open access journals.

Sample language for requesting open access publishing funds from your grant 
Provides sample wording to include in grant applications to request funding to cover the cost of publishing with an open access journal.

Digitization

SFU Library's Digitization Fund 
Covers costs associated with scanning, digitizing, and creating descriptive information of SFU scholarly materials.

Other SFU Funding

SFU University Publications Fund 
Offers funding for preparing publications, including preparation of camera-ready text and/or graphics and related costs, as well as costs for copyright clearance, copy-editing, indexing, or translation.

Make your scholarship available

Summit: SFU’s Research Repository 
Brings together selected scholarship and research of SFU and to promote this work to the wider world via open access. 

Digital Publishing

SFU Library Digital Publishing (for SFU researchers) 
Supports the SFU community in the online publication of open access journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other scholarly materials. 

Public Knowledge Project (for SFU and non-SFU researchers) 
A multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing. Non-SFU affiliated researchers can contact PKP for details on creating open access journals and monographs.

Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (DHIL) 
Assists SFU researchers with the development of digital scholarship research by providing consultation, training, mentoring, research software development and technical support to faculty and graduate students.

Key contacts

Digital Scholarship Librarians 
Scholarly communications specialists who can assist with questions related to scholarly publishing and open access.

Liaison librarians 
Subject specialists who work closely with SFU departments and can assist with questions related to scholarly publishing.

SFU Copyright Office 
Based in the University Library, provides information to help employees and students manage their rights and obligations under Canada's copyright law.