OpenAIRE is hosting a webinar to learn more about the new OpenAIRE call for proposals to fund APC-free Open Access journals and platforms under the alternative funding mechanism of the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot. The webinar will be held on May 12, 2016 at 10:00 CEST.
Besides funding APCs, OpenAIRE would like to also offer a funding opportunity for APC-free OA journals under the EC Gold Open Access Pilot: after all, two thirds of the journals listed in the DOAJ charge no APCs to their authors. A call for proposals has been put together that will allow these journals and/or platforms and publishers to apply for funding for improving their publishing workflows along a number of suggested lines.
A maximum of €200,000 will be awarded to up to 12 bids to perform technical improvements on APC-free OA journals such as becoming OpenAIRE compatible, systematically collecting funding information in the article metadata or implementing ORCID. In order to be eligible for funding, such journals must have published (or accepted for publication) eligible articles arising from finished FP7 projects during the last year.
The call for proposals will remain open until June 30, and bid assessment will be done during the month of July. The selected proposals will be announced in early August and will have until April 30, 2017 to carry out the proposed improvements.
Attendees will learn more about the requirements for applying for funding under this call. The webinar will be led by Pablo de Castro, from LIBER, the coordinating institution for the FP7 Post-Grant OA Pilot, and will address topics such as time schedule for this alt-funding initiative; requirements for eligibility; and how to submit a funding application.
The second part of the webinar will be a Q&A session where questions about this funding initiative will be answered.
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