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Scholarly Book Publication Grants

Application Form

Scholarly Book Publication Grants are available from the university’s General Research Fund to all STU faculty members who require funding to offset costs associated with the publication of scholarly, analytical books.

 

Value: $4,000, up to 3 awards per year
Deadline: Rolling deadline

 

Eligibility:

  • Available to members of both the Full-Time and the Part-Time Bargaining Units.
  • Available for supporting costs associated with the publication of scholarly books, defined as “extended academic texts that display sound scholarship and contribute to the advancement of knowledge and research” (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences ASPP website), normally published by academic presses with a peer-review mechanism, and includes monographs, revised conference proceedings, and edited collections.
  • Applicants publishing memoirs, autobiographies, or original works of poetry, fiction, or drama may make a case for consideration by situating the project and its relevance within their broader scholarly work.
  • Applicants publishing textbooks may make a case for consideration by outlining the ways in which the project “extend[s] knowledge through a disciplined inquiry and/or systematic investigation” (TCPS 2 2018) rather than simply compiling existing research.
  • This grant cannot be used for publishing reports or unrevised theses.
  • Eligible costs may include, but are not limited to, image licencing, translation, indexing, copy editing, and the preparation of tables, maps, and figures.
  • Applicants must have a publication contract in hand.
  • Applicants are only eligible once every three (3) years.
  • This grant cannot be used for publishing with predatory publishers (defined as “for-profit entities that purport to publish high-quality academic research, but do not follow accepted scholarly practices” (McMaster University Library, 2022)) or vanity presses (defined as a press that “generates revenue primarily through selling services directly to authors” rather than through book sales (SaskBooks n.d.)).
  • Applicants are expected to have applied for publication support from relevant external agencies, including the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (if the project and the publisher are eligible for this program).

 

A complete application consists of:

  • Application form (name, department, book title, proposed budget detailing specific expenses, publisher details).
  • Book description (3 pages maximum)
  • Budget justification (1 page maximum)
  • Applicant CV
  • Copy of contract with publisher
  • Publisher and peer-review comments (redacted as necessary to preserve anonymity). Please note that translations of books that are already published by a scholarly press may include scholarly reviews of the book rather than the original peer review comments used to assess the original manuscript.
  • Publisher’s estimate of costs

 

 

Adjudication:

  • Applications will be adjudicated by the Senate Research Committee
  • Adjudication criteria are:
    • Quality of the manuscript and expected contribution to knowledge (40%)
    • Feasibility of publishing within the two-year grant window (30%)
    • Appropriateness/justification of the budget (30%)