Webinar by Pablo de Castro (LIBER) on the Alternative Funding Mechanism for the EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot (12 May 2016)

1. The Alternative Funding Mechanism for
the EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot
12 May 2016
Pabl o de Cast ro
OpenAccessProjectOfficer
LIBER– Liguedesbibliothèqueseuropéennesderecherche

2. What is this FP7 Post-Grant Pilot?
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• The EC FP7 Post-Grant Open
Access Pilot will provide funding to
cover the OA publishing fees for
publications arising from completed
FP7 projects
• An alternative funding mechanism
will be implemented to fund APC-
free Open Access journals and
platforms where such post-grant
publications are also published

3. Alternative Funding Mechanism
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• Funding for OA journals/platforms that charge no APCs to
their users
• Funding aimed to support technical improvements in the
publishing workflows
• Call for proposals released on May 3rd
,
https://www.openaire.eu/are-you-publishing-your-apc-free-oa-
journal-on-a-shoestring
• Maximum of €200k budget to fund up to 12 bids based on a
list of recommended technical enhancements

4. Why an Alt-Funding Mechanism?
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• Gold Open Access does not mean APC-based OA journals
• Most journals listed in the DOAJ charge no APC fees

5. Why an Alt-Funding Mechanism?
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• “Fair funding distribution across business models”

6. Requirements for Eligibility
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• Must have published/accepted at least one article funded by
an eligible (i.e. finished) FP7 project during the last year
• Must be listed in the DOAJ
• Must be APC-free
• Must be OpenAIRE-compatible or aiming to become so
asap
https://www.openaire.eu/are-you-publishing-your-apc-free-oa-journal-on-a-shoestring

7. Desirable Technical Features
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• Persistent identifiers (DOI, handle…)
• CC-BY/CC-BY-SA licence
• XML versions of the articles
• Eligible articles must be deposited in an OpenAIRE-
compliant repository (ideally Zenodo at
https://zenodo.org/collection/user-
fp7postgrantoapilotoutputs/)
https://www.openaire.eu/are-you-publishing-your-apc-free-oa-journal-on-a-shoestring

8. Timeschedule
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• May 3rd
, 2016: Call for proposals released
• Jun 30th
, 2016: Deadline for bid submission
• Jul 2016: Bid assessment
• Aug 1st, 2016: Announcement of selected bids
• Early Aug 2016: Signing of agreement. First 50% payment
• Mid-Dec 2016: First progress assessment of technical
improvement implementation
• Apr 30th
, 2017: End of the exercise. Second payment.
Production of case studies

9. What will be funded
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“What if I already
meet all these? Does
it mean I’m not
eligible?”

10. How to apply for funding
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• Fill in and submit the funding application form with info on:
- Publisher
- APC-free OA journal/platform
- Technical improvement proposal: description,
timeschedule and budget
- List of publications backing the bid
• Deadline is June 30th
, but earlier submission may allow for
corrections
• Deadline for publications is also June 30th
• Bids should be emailed to postgrantpilotinfo@openaire.eu

11. A couple of useful tips
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• FP7 project database available from OpenAIRE API:
http://api.openaire.eu/projects/tsv?funding=fp7
• Funding/project information collected in a standardized way a
great help

12. Q&A
Pablo de Castro, pablo.decastro@kb.nl
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