{"id":585,"date":"2016-05-11T10:07:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T08:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doajournals.wordpress.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2025-08-22T02:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:33:09","slug":"a-funding-opportunity-for-apc-free-open-access-journals-and-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/es\/2016\/05\/11\/a-funding-opportunity-for-apc-free-open-access-journals-and-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"A Funding Opportunity for APC-free Open Access Journals and Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a guest post by Pablo de Castro<\/a>, Coordinator for the OpenAIRE FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"OpenAIREplus_logo\"The FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot<\/a>, as launched by the EC and OpenAIRE in May 2015, was mainly designed as a tool to fund Open Access publishing fees for publications arising from completed FP7 (7th Framework Programme<\/a> for Research and Technological Development) projects. This is its main area of activity and this work is starting to bear fruit, with over 300 funded Open Access publications<\/a> after a year of operation.<\/p>\n

However, most of the journals in the DOAJ charge no APCs to their authors<\/em>. Moreover, lacking a proper business model, funding opportunities for these journals are scarce beyond governmental and\/or institutional funding and specific calls such as the Canadian SSHRC’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is why this pilot has extended its funding scope to also cover APC-free OA journals and platforms through an alternative funding mechanism<\/a> released on May 3rd. This funding mechanism will allow journals to collect support for the implementation of technical improvements on their publishing workflows<\/em>. Its features and requirements will be thoroughly discussed at an OpenAIRE webinar<\/a> on May 12th.<\/p>\n

This initiative will specifically offer an opportunity to establish closer links between OpenAIRE and APC-free OA journals and publishers. While fully Open Access publishers like Ubiquity Press<\/a> y Copernicus<\/a> are OpenAIRE-compliant, OpenAIRE’s main focus has traditionally been\u2014and will remain\u2014on OA repositories and repository networks. Through this initiative, this will now be extended out to OA journals, allowing a deeper technical harmonization to take place in the APC-free OA publishing landscape.<\/p>\n

One of the key technical improvements to be funded will be having the journal’s outputs regularly indexed at article level\u00a0 in DOAJ<\/em>. 69% of the OA journals currently listed in DOAJ are indexed at article level, which means there\u2019s room for improvement. OpenAIRE is eager to promote this article-level indexing in DOAJ as a standard that will result in more visibility for the global OA content production.<\/p>\n

Another strongly recommended enhancement is the systematic inclusion of the funding and project information in the article-level metadata within the publishing platform<\/em>. While this is already a requirement<\/a> for OpenAIRE-compliant repositories (at least for EC-funded projects, i.e. FP7 and Horizon 2020), it is only very rarely happening in APC-free Open Access journals at the time, even when it’s a key aspect of the way the contextual information around a publication is collected and shared. This collection of funding and project information will in fact be key for identifying eligibility for this alternative funding mechanism.<\/p>\n

We are very much looking forward then to collecting interesting funding proposals from APC-free Open Access journals and platforms in the next two months. Make sure to register for the May 12th webinar<\/a> if interested in this funding opportunity!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a guest post by Pablo de Castro, Coordinator for the OpenAIRE FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot. The FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot, as launched by the EC and OpenAIRE in May 2015, was mainly designed as a tool to fund Open Access publishing fees for publications arising from completed FP7 (7th Framework Programme…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":378,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[613,615],"tags":[71,263,369,376,554],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-guest-post","tag-apcs","tag-horizon2020","tag-open-access","tag-openaire","tag-webinar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7153,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/7153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}