University Libraries Subvention Program: Home

To assist faculty & staff with publishing efforts, the University Libraries Subvention Program was created to cover article processing charges (APC) or book publishing charges (BPC) with contributed funds from each CEC, CASE, University Libraries, and the Offices of the Provost and Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation. 

In addition to the traditional print publishing model, it is recognized that in response to pressure from granting agencies and academics, most respected scientific publishers have begun hybrid and open access publishing options. Therefore, one goal of the Subvention Program is to enable authors to engage in open publishing environments and raise awareness among S&T authors of the benefits of open publishing and encourage new ways of thinking about digital scholarship and information access.    

This option to print ‘open access’ (OA) with a reputable publisher can be a boon to a faculty member’s career; these publications can have a broader readership and higher citation count as the article will be available to a larger public audience, and not only in the STEM fields, but across disciplines. 

The Subvention Program will award up to $2000.00 per author per academic year for articles or books accepted for publication in scholarly (peer-reviewed) print or OA options. In the case of multiple authors, the corresponding or ‘lead’ author will be the applicant and recipient of the award.

Subvention Program Guidelines

General Information

• Funds are available to underwrite article processing charges (APCs) or book processing charges (BPCs) for scholarly peer-reviewed articles or manuscripts accepted for publication. For books, only charges required by the publisher for publication (for example, copyright charges or additional editorial services) are eligible. Vanity presses or self-publication efforts are not eligible.
• Preference will given to pre-tenure faculty and/or those at the rank of assistant professor, assistant teaching professor, assistant research professor or librarian I or II and publications not associated with a grant or an award. 
• Students are not eligible for awards. 
• Only current S&T faculty and staff are eligible for awards.

Open Access Journals

• The OA journal's publisher must be a member of the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) or the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) or comply with a similar Code of Conduct.
• OA journals should be registered in an open access directory such as the Directory of Open Access Journals or Sherpa/Romeo.
• Note that no-cost, embargo-free open access is available through S&T’s Scholars’ Mine portal for any OA publication under consideration.  Available to everyone with a S&T affiliation, this option enables the deposit of the accepted version of scholarly articles in Scholars’ Mine, the university's open access repository.

Application

• Applications will be reviewed by the University Libraries. Applicant status and rank, publisher reputation and impact, Q ranking, distribution and existing grant/award funds (if applicable) will be considered for awards.
• University Libraries will distribute and track awards.

Funding

• The funding limit is $2000.00 per applicant per academic year. 
• Authors are limited to one award in funding per academic year (July-June).  In the case of multiple authors, the corresponding or ‘lead’ author will be the applicant and recipient of the award. Awards are limited to S&T current faculty & staff.
• Funding will be disbursed to authors upon approval until such time as all available funds are exhausted in a given academic year. 
• Awarded authors will be given a MoCODE to charge. If your article’s publishing charges are waived by the journal, or the award is no longer needed for any reason, please let us know so we can release those funds for other authors.
• Authors have 45 days to complete the transaction to pay the APC/BPC. A receipt should be sent to rmerrell@mst.edu.

Post Funding Requirements

• Awardees will be asked to present their research at a campus “Research Showcase” to be held in the library.
• Authors are asked to provide preprints to be deposited in S&T’s Scholars’ Mine, if permissible by publishing agreement. 
• Awardees will be listed via the web, and the library will produce a report for the Committee, Deans, Provost, and VC for Research and Innovation.

How to Apply

Interested S&T authors should begin by reviewing the guidelines above and then complete the application form during open periods.

We are currently accepting applications.

Committee Members

• Michael Bruening, Professor, History & Political Science 
• Minsu Choi, Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
• William Farenholtz,Curators Distinguished Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
• Sherry Mahnken, Librarian II, University Libraries
• Melanie Mormile, Professor, Biological Sciences 
• Monday Okoronkwo, Assistant Professor, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
• Jianmin Wang, Professor, Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering

Past Recipients

Academic Year 2024-2025 

Ahmad Alsharoa, Nawfal Guefrachi, Michael C. Lucic, Mohammad Yassen, Hakim Ghazzai. "A Comprehensive Planning Framework for Connected Elevated LiDAR Sensors." IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors, IEEE.

Justin Pope. Dangerous Spirit of Liberty: The Politics of Slaves and Rebels in Early America and the West Indies, 1688 – 1748. University of Missouri Press.

Kristen Donnell, Logan Wilcox. "Quality Factor Estimation of Additively Manufactured Frequency Selective Surfaces via Active Microwave Thermography." IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE.

Daniel Reardon. The Co-Creative History of Video Game Instructions. Palgrave-Macmillan.

Sajal K. Das, Rindam Khanda, Anurag Satpathy, Anusha Vangala. "SMEVCA: Stable Matching-based EV Charging Assignment in Subscription-Based Models." ICDCN 2025 - Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ACM.

Jonghyun Park, Tazdik Plateau, Gracie Boyer. "Hyper-Thick Electrodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries Enabled by Micro -Electric-Field Process." Advanced Science, Wiley.

Chen Zhu, Ruimin Jie, Jie Huang. "Transforming Optical Vernier Effect into Coherent Microwave Interference Towards Highly Sensitive Optical Fiber Sensing." Photonics Research, Optica Publishing Group.

Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla, Nathan Lutes, K. Krishnamurthy. "Few-Shot Transfer Learning for Individualized Braking intent Detection on Neuromorphic Hardware." Journal of Neural Engineering, IOPScience.

Daoru Han, Victor Somtochukwu Mbanugo, Boluwatife Stephen Ojo, Ta Chun Lin, Yue-Wern Huang, Marek Locmelis. "Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) Degradation in Water and Soil Using Cold Atmospheric Plasma (CAP): A Review." ACS Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society.

Ross Channing Reed. Precarity, Trauma, Addiction, and Love in Philosophical Counseling. Bloomsbury - Lexington Books.

Mina Esmaeelpour, Behzad Boroomandisorkhabi. "Picosecond Laser Ranging at 1.5 µm Using Dispersive Interferometry." Results in Optics, Elsevier.

Fateme Fayyazbakhsh, Mehedi Hasan Tusar, Niloofar Zendehdel, Eduard Mochalin, Igor Melnychuk, Lisa Gould, Ming Leu. "AI-Powered Image-Based Assessment of Pressure Injuries Using YOLOv8 Models." Advances Wound Care, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Sage.

Academic Year 2025-2026

Rishabh Dutta, Jeremy Maurer. "Mapping Deformation Processes Using InSAR PS+DS Timeseries Estimation in Northern California, U.S." Remote Sensing of Environment, Elsevier.

Matthew Ng, Chelsea LeNoble, Allen Shorey, Mark Kateli, Abigail Gregory. "Rest Easy, Applied Researcher: Latent Profile Analysis Is for You." Group Organization and Management, Sage.

Thomas Vojta, Skirmantas Janušonis, Ralf Metzler. "The Organization of Serotonergic Fibers in the Pacific Angelshark Brain: Neuroanatomical and Supercomputing Analyses." Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers Media. 

Jonathan Obrist-Farner, Jeremy Maurer, Derek Gibson, Trenton McEnaney, Andreas Eckert, William F. Kenney, Jeffery Beeson, Nigel Wattrus, Quin Stangeland, Fatima Reyes. "Paleoseismic Evidence of Directivity for the 1976 M~~w~~ 7.5 Motagua Earthquake, Guatemala.” Geology, Geological Society of America.

Michael Eze, Margaret Taiwo, Husam Kafeenah, David Duvernell. "Bioaccumulation Pattern of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Fish Tissues from Two Freshwater Systems." Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, Elsevier.