Publishing Alaska Sea Grant–Sponsored Work

Federal Requirements

This information will help Sea Grant researchers fulfill federal requirements for distributing reports. Ensuring that all Sea Grant–funded work is distributed according to the requirements will benefit our program when the National Sea Grant Office reviews our biennial implementation plan, and when we undergo our program review. Our program appropriation is determined in part by the merit rating resulting from the evaluation. If you have questions about research reporting requirements or publications guidelines, please contact Alaska Sea Grant at fygrant@uaf.edu.

According to congressional mandate, all researchers receiving federal funds from the NOAA Office of Sea Grant must publish research results and distribute them to as wide an audience as possible. The research results also must be reported to the federal government, which maintains a depository of Alaska Sea Grant–funded publications at the University of Rhode Island.

Alaska Sea Grant researchers are required to report their research annually and at the conclusion of the project. But in addition to knowing about the published research, we also need copies of all journal reprints, book chapters, proceedings contributions, and other reports.

How to acknowledge Alaska Sea Grant

We suggest you use the following acknowledgment in all publications based on Sea Grant research:

This publication is the result of research sponsored by Alaska Sea Grant with funds from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Sea Grant, Department of Commerce, under grant no.____________________ (project no._____________________), and from the University of Alaska with funds appropriated by the state.

Following is a list of grant numbers since 1989. Use the grant number for the most recent year in which your Sea Grant research was supported:

2006–2010 NA06OAR4170013
2002–2006 NA 16RG2321
1998–2001 NA 86RG0050
1994–1997 NA 46RG0104
1989–1993 NA 90AA D SG066

Your project number is the number assigned to your project in the original institutional proposal (for example, R/16-45). If you don't know your number, please contact us.

Journal Articles

Alaska Sea Grant pays page charges for articles based on Alaska Sea Grant–funded research that appear in professional journals. We also pay for the reprints. We take care of the federal distribution requirement by sending the required copies of reprints to the Sea Grant Library in Rhode Island.

How to qualify for financial support for page charges and reprints

To qualify for this support the article must:

  1. Be wholly or in part the result of research supported by Alaska Sea Grant, and
  2. Acknowledge Sea Grant funding as above.

How to order reprints

After you receive a reprint order form from the journal publisher, follow this procedure:

  1. Indicate the number of reprints you want on the form, and forward it with a copy of the title page and acknowledgment section to the Alaska Sea Grant office.
  2. We will add the number of reprints we require, request the purchase order, and send the form back to the journal publisher. We will pay the bill and the reprints will be shipped to our office.
  3. When the reprints arrive, we will deliver your order to you free of charge and distribute our copies as we are required.

How we pay your page charges

Forward to the Alaska Sea Grant office all notices or invoices for page charges from the journal publisher. We will pay all page costs for your Sea Grant research articles appearing in refereed journals.

Chapters in Books and Proceedings

If Alaska Sea Grant–funded researchers publish results as book chapters, or in proceedings or other reports, we request that they list the publication citation in their interim reports or final reports to us, include the acknowledgment described above, and provide us with as many copies of the chapter as possible, up to 30, so we can fulfill the federal distribution requirements.

Student Theses

Each student receiving an Alaska Sea Grant stipend is required to submit an abstract of the thesis or dissertation to Alaska Sea Grant. If part of the thesis is prepared for publication in a journal, we will pay page charges and reprint costs as for other journal articles.

Alaska Sea Grant Logo

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