Publication Funding

The University Seminars reviews requests for subvention funding from seminar chairs, guest speakers, and rapporteurs who have presented their work in a seminar meeting. Subvention funding is provided to a publisher to facilitate the publication of a book or article. Requests can be submitted for work that has been accepted by a peer-reviewed academic publisher but is not yet published or in production.

Applications for publication subventions are reviewed twice a year. 

The deadlines for applications are September 15 and March 15.

TYPES OF FUNDING

The Leonard Hastings Schoff and Suzanne Levick Schoff Memorial Fund for indexing, translating, technical editing, illustrating, or other publication costs of articles or books  produced under the auspices of The University Seminars in the fields of economics, sociology, psychology, penology, or the behavioral sciences.

The Aaron Warner Fund supports the publication of articles or books that emerge from a University Seminar. These publications do not need to fall under a specific field. This fund is in honor of the social scientist Aaron Warner, who was Director of The University Seminars for decades, and whose devotion to music on the one hand, and to the world of physics at Columbia, on the other, carried him far beyond the social sciences. 

ELIGIBILITY 

Our Subvention Funds are open to seminar chairs, guest speakers, regular participants, and rapporteurs whose books or articles:

• are produced entirely as seminar projects (e.g., a conference or symposium) or were partly presented and discussed at a seminar meeting
• includes parts presented and discussed at a seminar meeting 
• are works clearly influenced by participation in a seminar group and meeting

The subvention funds may be used only for expenses related to publication such as indexing, translating, technical editing, illustrating, paying open access fees, or other publication costs. Subvention Funding cannot be used for administrative costs (i.e. staff salaries or office supplies). Applicants must provide a budget and must indicate what other sources of funding are available to them, noting additional sources of support. The University Seminars’ publication subventions are intended to help with costs that cannot be covered by publishers or by the requestors’  institutions.

GUIDELINES

The University Seminars Publication Committee considers the value of the proposed publication and its involvement with a seminar in comparison with other requests. Subvention funding requests are subject to the following priorities:

• publications produced entirely as a seminar's project, e.g., a conference or symposium.   
• publications by regular seminar participants, including chairs and co-chairs, of which some part was presented and discussed at a seminar meeting.       
• publications that include materials presented and discussed by a speaker at a seminar meeting. 
• publications by a seminar's rapporteur where the work was clearly influenced by participation in the seminar. 

The University Seminars will provide up to $3,000 for publication expenses. The publication committee determines the amount to be funded.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

After the proposal has been submitted, an email confirmation will be sent from Submittable, a non-CU, third party application. 

Please add notifications@email.submittable.com to your contact list to ensure you receive all communications regarding your application. 

The Committee will respond to all requests. You can check the status of your submission at any time through Submittable.