The FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot: An All-Encompassing Gold Open Access Funding Initiative

The FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot: An All-Encompassing Gold Open Access Funding Initiative

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  The FP7 Post-GrantOpen Access Pilot: An All-Encompassing Gold Open Access Funding Initiative Pablo de Castro Open Access Project Officer LIBER
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  A few introductoryremarks OpenAIRE2020 - Overview • The EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot is a funding initiative aiming to cover Open Access publishing fees for researchers involved in finished FP7 projects; • Post-grant funding a new concept – no similar funding initiatives, even if its policy is well-aligned. It takes time for researchers and institutions to get to know the rules; • Launching it in the middle of a research framework programme is risky, but it makes possible a very useful dialogue with researchers; • The initiative sits midway between researchers, libraries and publishers – with opportunities to explore and bridge the gaps; • International partners (plus the OpenAIRE NOAD network) allow interaction with national-level initiatives.
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  FP7 Post-Grant OAPilot Partners OpenAIRE2020 - Overview
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  What is thisFP7 Post-Grant Pilot? 'REGULAR' FUNDING MECHANISM • The EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot provides funding to cover the OA publishing fees for publications arising from completed FP7 projects • 4 million euros have been made available by the EC to fund the OA “post-grant” publications of over 8,000 completed FP7 projects • The Pilot will last for a maximum of two years (i.e. until Apr 30th, 2017) or until its budget is exhausted ALTERNATIVE FUNDING MECHANISM • Funding available for APC-free Open Access journals/platforms that have published articles resulting from FP7 projects
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  Main Policy Guidelines •The FP7 project should have finished by the time the funding is requested, but no longer than two years ago; • A maximum of three publications will be funded per eligible FP7 project as a means to ensure a fair distribution of the funding across projects; • Funding requests must be submitted once the publication has been accepted; • Publications submitted to hybrid journals will not be funded, but only those accepted at fully Open Access journals; • The following funding caps apply to this funding: €2,000 for research articles and €6,000 for books (monographs/edited volumes); • The final version of the funded output must be deposited in an OpenAIRE-compliant Open Access repository;
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  EC Gold OpenAccess Pilot Mission OpenAIRE2020 - Overview The EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot will have been successful if: • In two years time the whole or a significantly large share of its budget has been disbursed in a reasonably balanced way across projects, disciplines, countries and business models • The initiative has collected an insight on the evolving OA publishing landscape that allows it to provide guidelines for a roadmap for sustainable Open Access publishing.
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  The OpenAIRE system •OpenAIRE System for collecting and processing funding requests available at https://postgrantoapilot.openaire.eu/. • Information requested on: - Researcher (at registration time) - FP7 project - Publication (article/journal/APC) - Accounting (invoicing) •Multiple-step workflow to process funding requests: conditional approval – formal approval – payment. •Built-in live reporting module
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  Live reporting module https://postgrantoapilot.openaire.eu/#statistics
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  'Alternative' funding mechanism •Gold Open Access DOES NOT MEAN Article or Book Processing Charges; • Two thirds of the journals in the DOAJ charge no APCs; • The Alternative Funding Mechanism will fund APC-free OA journals for improving their publishing workflows; • Call for proposals open since early May until June 30th , 2016: “Are you publishing your APC-free Open Access Journal on a shoestring?”, https://www.openaire.eu/are-you-publishing- your-apc-free-oa-journal-on-a-shoestring; • A total of €200k funding available for up to 12 funding applications from APC-free OA journals or platforms; • Technical improvements will be funded such as: systematically collecting funder/project information, becoming OpenAIRE compliant, issuing DOIs, producing XML versions of the articles; • Technical improvement plan & budget for the bid to be submitted to [email protected] before June 30th .
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  Gold OA Pilot– results so far Figures as of June 15th, 2016 391 journal articles 25 books 9 book chapters 1 conf procs 421 approved funding requests 6th Pilot progress report, https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=1082
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  Funding requests bycountry
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  Funded (non-Uni) organisations Non-universityorganisations funded by the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot so far (top 3 countries by no. of approved requests)
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  Funding requests bypublisher
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  A few findingsthus far 1. Figures are rather low – it's difficult to disseminate the funding initiative directly to researchers. Libraries have a key role here: where the Library has helped, results are far better. 2. Strong bias towards Western / North-Western Europe. Early explanations: awareness of Open Access among researchers, strength of Open Access dissemination networks, shift of corresponding authors towards sources of funding
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  A few findingsthus far 3. Funding distribution NOT RELATED to the existence of well- established Gold Open Access funding workflows: countries like Spain and Italy are good counter-examples. 4. Low awareness among researchers and libraries of the importance of the funding and project information, which is key for this initiative.
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  A few findingsthus far 5. Average APC fee paid remains stable so far despite a significant number of maximum payments for APCs above the €2,000 funding cap
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  A few findingsthus far 6. Researchers are (mostly) loving the initiative. Libraries not that much (as a rule). Some libraries and/or research offices are however able to see and exploit the opportunity it means for highlighting its research support role,
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