Research Admin Offices:

• ROADS

Opportunity Type:

• Grant

Value:

As of the September 2025 competition cycle onwards, the value of these grants will be as follows:

• Up to $42,400 per year (for emerging journals) for 3 years
• Up to $52,000 per year (for established journals) for 3 years

Disciplines:

• DeGroote School of Business
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Humanities
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Health Sciences

Sponsors:

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Deadlines:

Additional Dates:

• ROADS -NOI - July 7, 2025
• ROADS - First Draft Due for Internal Review - August 18, 2025
• ROADS - Application for Final Review - September 3, 2025

Description:

To support increased funding values and support for long-term research (3 years) in the social sciences and humanities. The grants support Canadian scholarly research and dissemination by offering a contribution to enable journals to defray the costs associated with publishing open access scholarly articles and digital journal dissemination.

Additional Program Information:

SSHRC will host two webinars via MS Teams to provide updates and answer questions. Registration is required.

• July 16, 2025 – 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (ET) – French
  •  Registration and Meeting Link
• July 16, 2025 – 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (ET) – English
  •  Registration and Meeting Link

Eligibility:

Proposals can involve any discipline, thematic area, approach or subject area eligible for SSHRC funding. See the guidelines on subject matter eligibility for more information.

A journal is ineligible for funding under this funding opportunity if:

• its mandate and/or content is primarily focused outside of the discipline(s) within SSHRC’s mandate; and/or
• its content is primarily health-related and focused on clinical research and education, psychomotor research and kinesiology, counselling and therapy, and epidemiology.

The applicant must:

• be the editor-in-chief of the journal or, in the case of an editorial collective, one of the editors;
• be a faculty member affiliated with an eligible Canadian postsecondary institution; and
• assume responsibility for the grant.

Application/Nomination Process:

By August 18, 2025 (9:00 AM)*: Email draft application to your Senior Advisor for content review.

By September 3, 2025 (9:00 AM)*: Submit your final application through the SSHRC portal for administrative review .  Submit a completed, signed Application Approval Form to ROADS.

By September 10, 2025 (4:30 PM): ROADS will submit your application to SSHRC.

* Note: Applications received after this date may not receive a full review.

Resources:

Additional details.

Contact:

For more information on how to apply, contact Nicole Fiorillo, Senior Advisor, ROADS.