The University Research Council [URC] is pleased to announce that it has initiated a scheme to provide financial assistance up to a maximum of USD 1500.00 per year for the researchers of University of Peradeniya to facilitate publishing their research findings in high ranking peer reviewed journals.
Publishing research findings in reputed journals inevitably increases the visibility of research work and thereby it brings reputation and publicity for the researchers as well as for the university. Therefore, encouraging researchers to publish their scholarly work in reputed high impact journals is of paramount importance. Publishing in many high impact international peer reviewed journals involves page charges amounting to USD 2500 or even more, especially if the researcher intends to publish as an open access article. Publishing as an open access article invariably enhances the visibility of the research work leading to high number of citations.
Assisting researchers with their publications has been a long-felt need at Peradeniya. Providing assistance for researchers in getting their research work in high impact journals has been identified as one of the priorities in establishing the University Research Council. Accordingly, the URC takes pleasure in introducing Research Publication Facilitation Fund [RPFF] to support our researchers.
Applying for Research Publication Facilitation Fund [RPFF]
| Application |
A link for the fillable form is given below. This can fill using Adobe Acrobat Reader latest versions.
• Furnish all the details, sign the application, get the Head and the Dean to sign.
• Attach a copy of the complete manuscript and the acceptance letter.
• And send the application to URC before paying the Article Processing Charge (APC) for approval and necessary processing.
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| Financial assistance |
• Only the full-length articles published in SCI/SSCI/SCI-expanded/SSCI-expanded with an impact factor of 1 or higher will be considered for RPFF.
• If the impact factor is greater than or equal to 1 and less than 2, USD 500 per author up to a maximum of USD 1000 per paper per year.
• If the impact factor is greater than or equal to 2, USD 500 per author up to a maximum of USD 1500 per paper per year.
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| Eligibility criteria |
• Applicant: The applicant should be a permanent staff member of University of Peradeniya and one of the authors of the journal article.
• Affiliation: University of Peradeniya should have been identified as the sole affiliation or one of the affiliations. Journal articles which do not carry University of Peradeniya as an affiliation are not eligible for funding.
• Research work: Research should have been carried out fully or in part at University of Peradeniya. Research work carried out by a permanent staff member of University of Peradeniya completely outside of University of Peradeniya may also be eligible.
• The use of Institutional e-mail address: The author/s affiliated to University of Peradeniya are encouraged to use the official e-mail address with pdn domain name provided by University of Peradeniya in correspondence with the journal. If the applicant is the corresponding author of the journal article the author should have used the institutional e-mail address.
• Journal: The journal should be indexed in SCI/SSCI or SCI-expanded/SSCI-expanded journal with a journal impact of 1 or higher.
• Frequency: Once a calendar year.
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| Payment |
• The payment must be done by a permanent staff member of the University of Peradeniya.
• Upon receiving the approval for the APC from URC, usually through an email, submit the invoice for the payment of the APC, and the credit card statement to process the payment.
• If two authors claim for the same article fill in two separate applications and send both applications together (Attaching one copy of the manuscript and the invoice is adequate). If one author paid for the APC, a consent letter from the second author should be submitted.
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| Others: |
• The URC reserves the right to amend the selection criteria.
• The article processing charge will be reimbursed subject to the availability of funds.
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| Mailing Address |
The Director, University Research Council, A6 Building, Udaperadeniya Road, University of Peradeniya.
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| E-mail Address |
secretaryurc@gs.pdn.ac.lk
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