Almasi

Exploring and supporting sustainability through policy and funding (WP4)

Time frame: M1 – 36

Pilotes: SPARC Europe / EIFL

Work package description

Objectives

  • Gain a better understanding of the national policy landscapes related to non-profit OA publishing amongst governments and research funders, and policy funding arms, and institutional policymaking;
  • Stimulate the development of institutional and national policies that support non-profit OA publishing with funding;
  • Build capacity on financial models amongst national and institutional policymakers and research funder to optimise costs, and help sustain non-profit OA publishing.

Deliverables

  • D4.1 Landscape report, including good practices

Research into the regional, national and international OS policy landscape of nonprofit scholarly publishing and Diamond OA and its funding arms

  • D4.2 Actionable, evidence-based and community-validated recommendations for institutional leadership, national governments and research agencies

Recommendations co-created with and for high-level national policymakers and institutional leadership, incl. learned/academic societies, including a white paper and action plans for funding Diamond OA

  • D4.3 Plans of action to implement policy recommendations and funding

Collection of commitments to support nonprofit scholarly publishing and Diamond OA from FSDs