Pepperdine Libraries Awards Stipends to Faculty in Support of Open Access Publishing
As part of our commitment to supporting open scholarly inquiry, Pepperdine Libraries
awards open access publishing stipends to faculty. The program has been tremendously
successful, and during the last academic year, the Libraries awarded more than twenty
thousand dollars to faculty members. The stipends are used to pay publishers for their
article processing charges to prepare articles for open access publication. By publishing
in an open access platform, our faculty’s important work becomes available to the
scholarly community in a timely manner. The publications appear in discipline-specific,
rigorous, well-respected, peer-reviewed journals. We’re pleased to recognize faculty
below who have applied for and received stipends during the 2025-2026 academic year.
Lauren Amaro
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Communication Division, Seaver College
Storm, Cooker Perkins, et al. “#healthypregnancy: A Content Analysis of TikTok Posts
about Nutrition and Exercise during Pregnancy.” DIGITAL HEALTH, vol. 12, Feb. 2026, p. 20552076261426329. DOI.org (Crossref).
https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076261426329
Charles Choi
Associate Professor of Communication
Communication Division, Seaver College
Choi, Charles. “Engagement across the Cultural Divide: Accommodative Communication
in the Study Abroad Context.” Intercultural Communication Education, vol. 9, no. 2, Apr. 2026, p. 103424. DOI.org (Crossref).
https://doi.org/10.29140/ice.v9n2.103424
Christina Duron
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Natural Science, Seaver College
Durón, Christina, et al. “Edge Percolation Centrality: A New Measure to Quantify the
Influence of Edges during Percolation in Networks.” PLOS ONE, vol. 20, no. 9, Sept.
2025, p. e0331475. PLoS Journals.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0331475
Javier Monzon
Associate Professor of Biology
Natural Science Division, Seaver College
Briggs, Peter, et al. “Sexual and Regional Differences in the Microbiome and Functional
Metagenome of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma Americanum.” Animal Microbiome, vol. 7, no. 1, Dec. 2025, p. 127. DOI.org (Crossref).
https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-025-00498-6
Kfir Mordechay
Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy
Education Division, Graduate School of Education and Psychology
Lee, Hyojung, and Kfir Mordechay. “Do Metropolitan Zoning Asymmetries Influence the
Geography of Suburban Growth and Gentrification?” Land, vol. 14, no. 8, July 2025, p. 1555. DOI.org (Crossref).
https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081555
James Prieger
Professor of Public Policy
School of Public Policy
Prieger, James E., et al. “E-Cigarette Use and Smoking-Related Disparities in England:
An Observational Study Using Small Area Estimation and Nonparametric Regression.”
Harm Reduction Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, Mar. 2026, p. 76. DOI.org (Crossref).
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-026-01435-9
Luisa Blanco Raynal
Professor of Public Policy
School of Public Policy
Blanco, Luisa R., et al. “Digital Intervention (MiVacunaLA 2.0) to Promote COVID-19
Vaccine Acceptance Among Hispanic Children: Community-Based Randomized Controlled
Trial.” Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 28, Mar. 2026, pp. e78103–e78103. DOI.org (Crossref).
https://doi.org/10.2196/78103
Fabien Scalzo
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Natural Science Division, Seaver College
Scalzo, Fabien, et al. “Upper Limb Motor Recovery in Chronic Stroke—Longitudinal Aggregate
Analysis from Control Group Outcomes.” Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, vol. 6, Aug. 2025, p. 1448174. DOI.org (Crossref)
https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2025.1448174
Janet Trammell
Professor of Psychology
Social Science Division, Seaver College
Trammell, Janet, et al. “Chronic Nature Exposure Does Not Moderate Affective and Attentional
Effects of Acute Nature Exposure.” Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 17, Feb. 2026, p. 1731261. DOI.org (Crossref).
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1731261
Our library faculty are experts in scholarly metrics and the publishing landscape. Contact a librarian to help identify appropriate open access publishers who may be a good fit for your article, book chapter, or book project. To learn more about how to apply for a stipend or explore other avenues of publishing open access, including on the Libraries’ Digital Commons platform, visit the Open Access Publishing Support page.