Publication Support Guidelines

The Division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, with the co-sponsorship of the Office of Research, offers financial support to ladder faculty for publishing their research.

There are two kinds of support:

Publication assistance defrays costs for the author that would not normally be covered by the publisher; examples include indexing, permissions, artwork, translations, etc. The maximum funding per book is $3,000 - split 50/50 between the Office of Research and the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies.

Publication subvention provides funding to the publisher to subsidize the publication of scholarly books and monographs. Books must be of an excellent scholarly quality representative of University of California standards and published by major universities and trade presses. The maximum funding per book is $6,000 - split 50/50 between the Office of Research and the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies.

Application:

1. Brief letter to the Dean with a description of the book

2. Budget

   Note: For publication subvention, we need a summary of projected publication revenues and costs, including print run, list price, net price, projected sales and anticipated royalties; anticipated royalties will be subtracted from the required amount of subvention to ensure that the State of California is not in the position of funding publication costs that will be partially reimbursed to the author through royalties.

3. Contract for publication and any relevant correspondence
4. Publication Support Application, signed by the chair/director

Send the application to Kathleen Harbaugh, College of Letters and Science – Deans' office. Please address questions to or 752-3042.

The Dean, in consultation with the chair, will decide whether to support the request and commit the Division's portion of funding. If funding dollars are limited, priority will be given to those faculty members who have not previously received publication subvention and/or publication assistance.

The request will then be forwarded by the Dean to the Vice Chancellor of Research for further consideration and approval. After final approval from the Vice Chancellor of Research, the Dean will send you a letter and transfer funds to your department. The process takes approximately 3-4 weeks.

Revised 2/13/08