Publication Support

Support for fiscal year 2023 has ended; support for fiscal year 2024 will be announced in April or later. Please wait for a while.

NAOJ ALMA Project provides the opportunity of financial support in order to assist researchers in Japan to be active by strongly pursuing their research using ALMA. We support the first author of the paper (not necessarily the PI of the observing project) and papers using ALMA archival data are also eligible for support. We would like to encourage applications by young researchers.

Eligibility

Applicants must be the first authors of the papers submitted (or will surely be submitted for the English editing service) to peer-reviewed journals and belong to an institute/university in Japan when submitting the papers. The applicants’ affiliation in Japan must be listed in the papers. The papers should include scientific results using ALMA data (PI data as well as archival data) as the primary datasets, and should have the “ALMA program code” in the Acknowledgments. Papers which were submitted in September 2022 and before, which only cite ALMA results/figures, or which only show the importance of future ALMA observations are not the subject of this support.

In principle, the support will be provided on a first-come first-served basis, but in the case of a high number of applications, a selection process may be carried out at the NAOJ ALMA Project discretion. In that situation, early-career researchers will be given priority. Thank you for your understanding if your application is unfortunately rejected.

Support

  1. Page charge of the paper
    Accepted peer-reviewed papers are eligible. Open Access fee is excluded if it is optional for that journal.
  2. English editing service fee
    Applications will only be accepted for papers ready for submission. The paper must be submitted after using this service. This support will be provided only once before submission of the manuscript, in principle.
  3. Travel and registration fees for oral presentations in an international conference hosted or co-hosted by overseas organizations
    Papers that have already been submitted are eligible. Any network cost or cost for communication device(s) and software to connect to an online conference will not be supported. A conference held after 2 years since the acceptance of the paper is not eligible for this support.
  4. Travel expense for an oral presentation such as at a colloquium held at an overseas institution, in combination with the international joint research using ALMA in a way that expands on the results shown in the oral presentation
    Papers that have already been submitted are eligible. The period of travel should be no less than two weeks and a maximum of one month. Up to 600,000 yen per support ID will be covered for airfare and local stay. Joint research only or mainly using ALMA while staying at a single research institution is eligible for support. Upon returning to Japan, the applicant will be required to submit a report on the progress of research made during the visit. Support will not be provided after two years from the date of acceptance of the paper.
  5. Commission fee for the creation of images to be used in the press releases led by organizations other than NAOJ
    Please first contact the ALMA-J public outreach office (alma-info_atmark_nao.ac.jp) for press releases. The office will support the entire process for the press releases. On the other hand, the public outreach office may not be able to accept all the requests due to limitations. In such a case, if the organization where the author belongs to takes the lead in the press release, we would like to support the cost of producing artist images in this Publication Support program: no more than 200,000 yen per image, and no more than one image per application.

    ALMA-J public outreach office: alma-info_atmark_nao.ac.jp (please replace _atmark_ with @)

Application

Support for fiscal year 2023 has ended; support for fiscal year 2024 will be announced in April or later. Please wait for a while.

An application can be submitted separately for paper charge (1), English editing service fee (2), travel for an international conference or joint research (3 or 4 can be supported per support ID), and commission fee for image creation (5). You can also apply just to obtain the support ID number to check if your paper is eligible for the support. Please note, however, that the actual support may not be available for the page charge at the time of application unless the paper is accepted, since this support is provided on a first-come first-served basis or through a selection process, in the case of a high number of applications.

Please note that the fee for paper submission, English editorial and creation of images will be paid by NAOJ. No advance payment will be permitted.

For overseas travel, NAOJ will arrange airline tickets. Please do not purchase airline tickets by yourself. In addition, traveling across fiscal years is not eligible for support.

Regarding programs that have been accepted by the ALMA Joint Scientific Research Program, we would like to ask you to use the research funds for the Joint Scientific Research Program instead of this publication support unless there are special circumstances.



The paper support must be acknowledged as :

[PI name] was supported by the ALMA Japan Research Grant of NAOJ ALMA Project, NAOJ-ALMA-xxxxxx.

After paper publication, please let us know the publication information (such as paper number and page number).

If NAOJ staff are included in the author list of your papers, please also consider applying for the support provided by Publications Committee of NAOJ.


Please contact us if you have any questions: alma-pi-support_atmark_ml.nao.ac.jp (please replace _atmark_ with @)

Last Update: 2023.11.20
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