ALMASI (Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit OA Publishing Services Internationally), a European Commission-funded project, has the ambition to provide the research community across Africa, Europe and Latin America with a nonprofit, high-quality, and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem. This is the first European project to gather these 3 regions with the major aim to set common standards and grounds that will serve as an example for the international Diamond Open Access (OA) community.
ALMASI is a pilot project aimed at increasing quality, strategic alignment, equity, diversity, inclusivity, and multilingualism of nonprofit OA publishing worldwide. It will establish a framework for knowledge transfer in terms of non-technological publishing skills, management, and funding through sharing best practices and developing training materials.
This project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, started on 1st January 2025 and will run for three years. Led by ESF, the consortium involves 16 partners, bringing together national, regional and institutional open science and scientific publishing expertise and experience from Africa, Europe and South America.
