DARIAH Annual Open Access Book Bursary 2023: Call for manuscripts

Criteria regarding the APPLICANTS: 

• The call is open for Early Career Researchers* who wish to publish their first monograph Open Access.
• The call is exclusive for Early Career Researchers whose PhDs are awarded (or to be awarded) in DARIAH member countries or are having professional affiliation (academic or alt-ac)  in a DARIAH member country.
• The DARIAH affiliation of the author or a funding statement must be clearly identifiable in the publication, preferably even as part of the metadata. 

*We follow the European Research Council’s definition of ECRs: Researchers up to 7 years after PhD, including doctoral candidates who did not earn their title yet.

Criteria regarding the topic of the BOOK: 

• Field: Digital Humanities (defined in the broad sense of the theory and practice of developing, applying and reflecting upon digital tools, methods and assets in humanities research).
• Refundable are Open Access monographs that have not been published previously. PhD dissertations deposited in institutional repositories and/or published on microfilms are also eligible with the agreement of the publisher.
• Enclosing an Expression of interest letter from the publisher is a must.

Criteria regarding the VENUE and FORMAT: 

• Funding will be granted only if the publisher provides transparent calculation for the invoiced Open Access costs. Open Access Publication costs must be shown separately on the invoice.
• The publisher should be listed as an open-access publisher, e.g. in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB).
• The publisher should operate in alignment with the SPARC Good Practice Principles with Scholarly Communication Services. 
• Publishers who provide Persistent Identifiers to OA books are preferred. 
• Innovative forms of publication (those going beyond the PDF, e.g. networked monographs and those including data, TEI/XML encodings etc.) will be encouraged.
• Retrospective Open Access (i.e. turning a closed-access monograph into Open Access post publication) is fundable within two years from the first publication of the monograph.

Criteria regarding the ACCESS CONDITIONS: 

• In order to receive funding, all parts of the submitted publication must be openly accessible free of charge immediately and completely as soon as they are published.
• The publication must be published under a Creative Commons license (preferably the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY but more restrictive Creative Commons licenses are also possible).

Details of the FUNDING: 

• Publication costs will be covered up to the maximum of 7,000 EUR (incl. VAT). In exceptional cases and with sufficient justification, a maximum of 500 EUR extension is possible (for instance, extra charges for a CC-BY license).
• The combination of funding with other sources is not possible. 
• The funding is strictly available for Open Access publishing cost. Support for the cost of printing or typesetting is not available.
• The funding approval is valid for a period of 12 months after signing the grant agreement. If the publication has not been published within that period, the applicant will have to submit a new application. 
• Recipients should be responsible for the agreement on the fee and contract with the publisher. 
• Beneficiaries are required to add a DARIAH funding acknowledgement in the books following the template specified in the grant agreement. Beneficiaries are also invited to present their work at a dedicated session at the DARIAH Annual Event. The travel costs to join the DARIAH Annual Event will be reimbursed by DARIAH.
• The Open Access publication grant cannot be used to cover other, publishing-related costs such as copyediting.

Evaluation of the submissions happens in two stages: 

1. Only those applications that come with a letter of interest from the publisher will be considered.
2. Filtering/decision making is done by a dedicated committee (composed of one member of the DARIAH Board of Directors, DARIAH’s Open Science Officer and one external member) based on the book proposal + one chapter.

1. Application deadline: 30 November 2023
2. Announcement of the winner: end of January 2024
3. Setting up and signature of an agreement between DARIAH and the author: February/March 2024
4. Start of the project: upon signature of the agreement
5. Duration: 1 year

Applications should be submitted at oamonograph@dariah.eu

List of the documents to be submitted:

1. CV
2. Letter of interest from the publisher
3. Book proposal
4. One chapter of the manuscript.

Should you have any further questions, please contact info@dariah.eu for more details.