Special Collections & Publishing Support Grants

Jamie Guilbeau and Thelma Guilbeau UL Lafayette Collections Research Grant

• Must be tenure-track and tenured faculty from the UL Lafayette College of Liberal Arts
• Faculty may apply for subvention support once every two years
• Single authored scholarly peer-reviewed books from a university or other scholarly press
• Trade press or popular press only considered in exceptional cases
• Scholarly journal articles in highly ranked, field-specific publications, if required for publication
• Likelihood of publication within one year
• Publication in any language and in any liberal arts discipline.
• Departmental agreement to match funds

• Subvention fees required by a publisher
• Payments will be made directly to the publisher and the college will require a letter from the publisher agreeing to repay subvention fees should the work not be published
• Exclusions are:
  • Grants cannot be used for textbooks, reissued titles, or subsequent editions
  • Authors who received a cash advance are not eligible
  • Costs are not reimbursements and cannot be used for research or other expenses prior to submission to the publishers
  • Grants cannot be used for translation services or routine expenses such as indexing or copy editing
  • Faculty with professorships or other dedicated funding for subventions (UL Lafayette Foundation support, outside grant support, etc.) are not eligible
  • Grants will not be awarded for self-published materials

• Letter outlining the case for a subvention matching grant
• A current CV A pre-publication copy of the work
• The book/article contract and any other pertinent documentation such as an explanation of what costs the subvention will defray