University of Wisconsin Publishing Subvention Grant

University of Wisconsin Publishing Subvention Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Last Updated: October 09, 2025

Summary

The University of Wisconsin Publishing Subvention program, overseen by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, aims to support tenure-track faculty by subsidizing the publication costs of peer-reviewed scholarly monographs. This initiative seeks to lower book prices, enhance the dissemination of research, and bolster the open-access publishing ecosystem in the humanities and social sciences. Funding is directly provided to publishers, ensuring the authors can effectively share their work with a broader audience.

Overview

Note: For all procurement inquiries, start by contacting your department administrator or your school/college business office for guidance. They can help you determine the best procurement method and guide you through policies and processes. Funding The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) provides research funding for faculty through its annual cross-campus Fall Research Competition, as well as funding for travel for faculty to domestic and international meetings, named professorships, mid-career awards, and faculty fellowships. Other OVCR funding programs provide grants to help transfer technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace. University of Wisconsin Publishing Subvention The OVCR provides subventions for the publication of peer-reviewed through-written scholarly monographs. What are the aims of the subvention program? To lower the list price of books by UW faculty thereby facilitating increased dissemination of their work;To further support the ecosystem of scholarly publishing in the humanities and qualitative social sciences;To provide additional levels of support for open-access monograph publishing; andTo provide additional levels of support for heavily illustrated monographs. Subventions go directly to publishers to offset the costs of book production. Faculty seeking support for costs incurred in the preparation of manuscripts, such as acquiring permissions to publish images, should use start-up or retention funds or may apply to the Fall Competition. The following conditions are attached to the award of subvention support and must be accepted by the recipient: Support awarded to an author will be paid directly to the publisher by the Department (see below). The publisher will be required to provide written assurance that the funds will be returned to the university in the eventuality that the book is not published for any reason.The faculty member will be solely responsible for any and all tax consequences that may result from the payment of the publication subvention support to the publisher.The faculty member must agree to acknowledge publication subvention support in the preface, introduction, or acknowledgement of the book with the following: “Support for this research was provided by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research with funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.”The publisher must agree to provide one copy of the book to the OVCR at no cost to the author or to UW–Madison.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. This program is open to tenure-track faculty of any rank.

Ineligibility

The program does not support translations, anthologies or page fees for articles.