We are pleased to announce that the following support programs, which aim to help researchers with scholarly publication, have opened calls for applications for the firsr half of FY 2024.
Some changes from the previous fiscal year have been made in each program.
For details, please refer to the application guidelines.

1. Open Access Publishing Support [Transformative Agreement with Springer Nature, Elsevier and Wiley]
   (Details are in the application guidelines about 1.)
2. Open Access Publishing Support [Support for Article Processing Charge] 
   (Details are in the application guidelines about 2.)
3.  English Language Editing Support (For Journal Article Publishing)
   (Details are in the application guidelines about 3.)

We have also signed a new e-journal transformative agreement with Elsevier, an international academic publisher, to promote the publication of open access articles, in April 2024. As a result, “Open Access Publishing Support [Transformative Agreement] is available to three publishers: Springer Nature, Wiley (including Hindawi), and Elsevier.

As stated in the "Osaka University Open Access Policy", we encourage you to make the results of your research openly accessible. For this purpose, please utilize Osaka University’s institutional repository(OUKA) as well as this support. 

-Contact Information-
Department of Research Promotion,
Research Planning Division,
Research Support Section
e-mail： research-support@office.osaka-u.ac.jp