The EC/OpenAIRE FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot: A View on ‘Region East’
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The document discusses the EC/OpenAIRE FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot, which provides €4 million in funding to cover open access publishing fees for over 8,000 completed FP7 projects. To be eligible, publications must have resulted from completed FP7 projects, be peer-reviewed, and be deposited in an OpenAIRE-compliant repository. Researchers can apply for funding by submitting requests to the OpenAIRE system, including information about the project, publication, and invoice. So far over 300 requests have been approved, though uptake has been low in some regions like Italy and Eastern Europe. Efforts are underway to engage more publishers and speed up identification of eligible publications.
The EC/OpenAIRE FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot: A View on ‘Region East’
- 1. The EC/OpenAIRE FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot: A View on ‘Region East’ Pablo de Castro Open Access Project Officer LIBER – Ligue des bibliothèques européennes de recherche
- 2. What is this FP7 Post-Grant Pilot? • The EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot will provide funding to cover the OA publishing fees for publications arising from completed FP7 projects • 4 million euros are 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
- 3. Requirements for Eligibility • 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; • Publications eligible for funding must be peer-reviewed; • 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; • Funding caps of €2,000 for research articles and €6,000 for monographs apply for this Pilot; • The final version of the funded output must be deposited in an OpenAIRE-compliant Open Access repository. Full Pilot policy guidelines available at: https://www.openaire.eu/postgrant/fp7-post-grant/pilot
- 4. Funded Journals Thus Far https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=586
- 5. How to Apply for Funding 5 1. Funding requests may be directly submitted into the OpenAIRE system by researchers or by Libraries and/or Research Offices on their behalf 2. Users need to register with the System in order to submit a funding request 3. Data about the project and the accepted publication will be requested in order to check their eligibility. Once this is checked, the funding request will be approved and left pending until an invoice is available 4. Invoice for the OA publishing fee needs to be uploaded into the Central System when made available by the publisher. The invoice must be issued to Athena Research Centre (ARC). OpenAIRE System: https://postgrantoapilot.openaire.eu/
- 6. Funding Request: OpenAIRE System System requests information on: Researcher (at registration time) FP7 project Publication (article/journal/APC) Accounting (invoicing) An important recommendation: Please submit your request upon completion of the publication data without waiting for an invoice to arrive
- 7. 7 After filling in a funding request 1. Funding request is submitted 2. Moderator checks it and conditionally approves it if eligible 3. Automatic notification collected by requestor 4. Automatic notification collected by project coordinator for validation 5. Request stays in "conditionally approved" status until invoice addressed to Athena Research Centre is uploaded 6. If invoice is valid (VAT number must be included), the request is formally approved 7. Notification for formal approval sent to the requestor 8. Invoice processed and paid by OpenAIRE accounting office in Athens 9. Bank transfer receipt uploaded into the system by the accounting office 10. Paid request notification sent out to requestor
- 8. Results so far – approved requests As of Mar 31st , 300 funding requests have been approved, 283 for journal articles, 12 for books and 5 for book chapters
- 9. Results so far – requests by country
- 10. Results so far – funding by country https://postgrantoapilot.openaire.eu/#statistics
- 11. Results so far – requests by publisher
- 12. Granted requests from Region East
- 13. Granted funding requests in Italy
- 14. Granted funding requests: Region East
- 15. Issues so far: low figures • Eligible articles are surely being published – only we’re not ‘catching’ them • A possible move towards WE-based corresponding authors? • Low awareness by eligible researchers • Cultural issues… HOWEVER: • Eligible articles can be tracked and identified: best practice case study in next slide • If we identify eligible journal articles even for reimbursement, this can be used for awareness-rising of the funding opportunity at ms acceptance time • Could we maybe try to come up with a best practice case study for additional countries?
- 16. Identifying eligible publications: Serbia Available information: •List of eligible journals funded so far •List of publications by country •Information on eligible FP7 projects per country
- 17. Issues so far: rate of growth too slow
- 18. Speeding up: work with publishers The Pilot is starting to directly work with publishers in order to identify eligible publications at manuscript acceptance time This involves new technical workflows that need to be tested
- 19. The Alternative Funding Mechanism • Aims to fund OA journals that charge no APCs to their users • Since there's no APC to fund, an alternative funding mechanism has been devised to support technical improvements in the publishing workflows • A call for proposals will soon be put out for collecting bids from these journals/publishers on the basis of a list of recommended technical enhancements Conceived also as a means to address the geographic bias
- 21. FP7 Post-Grant OA Pilot Checklist
- 22. FP7 Post-Grant OA Pilot Checklist (II)