In the UK, centralized funding was set up in 2013 to help the transition to gold open access as mandated by the UK government. The 2015/16 RCUK block grant will make available a total of £22.6 million available to universities based on their previous RCUK related research output
In the U.S. there are no centralized pools of money but with certain grants from various agencies, the publication fees of producing open access publication of research can be written into the grant and even expected by the granting agency.
At some institutions in the U.S., the decision has been made to dedicate an amount from the collections budget that would normally go to for-fee publication to be dedicated to supporting open access publications. In some cases, the library will pay a set fee for the entire campus to publisher a given number of articles freely. In other cases, the library sets up funding that can be requested by faculty members to support the open access publication of their research. (example here: http://library.kumc.edu/authors-fund.xml) and here: (http://www.lib.umd.edu/oa/openaccessfund) As open access publication grows and more and more commercial publishers offer the ability to publish work open access, this trend is likely to grow. In a few rare cases, grants have been secured to “seed” the start-up of support of open access publishing and these grants either come from institutional mechanisms or from outside granting agencies. (See article the here)
In conjunction with Sage, the University of Calgary Library has released a video describing how they have successfully setup and implemented an Open Access Authors Fund.
Lastly, it should be noted that librarians should be careful about outsourcing open access content management to intermediaries and in thinking this can be done at no cost. Starting in 2014, some subscription agencies began charging a minimum fee per open access title managed on behalf of a library. If a librarian is considering outsourcing, it should be noted that this will come at a cost to the subscription budgets.
1.1 Internal Library Message on Open Access
1.2 Communication of OA Opportunities to Your Academic Community
1.3 Mandates/Policies
1.4 Promotion of Your Repository
1.5 Budgeting for Open Access Publication
1.6 Integration of Open Access Process Management
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