The EC FP7 Post-Grant Gold Open Access Pilot: An Introduction Pablo de Castro Gold OA Pilot Coordinator Open Access Project Officer at LIBER London, June 24 th, 2015

The Context: Evolving Business Models in Scholarly Comms

EC/OpenAIRE Gold Open Access Pilot (OpenAIRE2020 WP5)

The Gold OA Pilot: Some Basic Facts EUR 4m funding provided by the EC to support Open Access publications from post-grant FP7 projects finished no longer than 2 years ago. Maximum of three publications per project to be funded (research articles, monographs, book chapters, contributions to conference proceedings) which meet the requirements described in the Pilot policy guidelines. No publications in hybrid journals will be funded, only in fully Open Access titles. A €2,000 funding cap applies to Open Access publishing fees for research articles, and a €6,000 one for books. Pilot (soft) launched beginning of May A central funding request system is available at the OpenAIRE portal, for collecting requests from eligible FP7 projects, which researchers will be able to deliver either directly or via their institution. Funding requests should be submitted once the manuscript has been accepted for publication. No previously published outputs will be refunded.

The Gold OA Pilot: Institutions Involved in the Kick-Off Stage University of Oslo (NO) – Elin Holmstrøm Frøshaug University of Glasgow (UK) – Susan Ashworth, Valerie McCutcheon TU Delft (NL) – Just de Leeuwe University College London (UK) – Catherine Sharp Uni Bielefeld (DE) – Dirk Pieper Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU) – Andras Holl Spanish National Research Council (ES) – Agnès Ponsati University of Vienna (AT) – Guido Blechl, Gerda McNeill Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) – Natalia Grygierczyk, S. de Vries University of Patras (GR) – Fieroula Papadatou Universidade do Porto (PT) – Augusto Ribeiro Trinity College Dublin (IE) – Niamh Brennan Gold OA Pilot Project partners University College London (UK) Jisc (UK) SURF (NL) U Göttingen (DE) ATHENA/ U of Athens (GR) CNR (IT)

Joint Pilot Dissemination Work w/ Institutions

Gold OA Pilot (Basic) FAQs

The Gold OA Pilot: Central Funding Request System

The Gold OA Pilot: Some Areas to Explore Align outreach strategies towards eligible FP7 researchers Explore researchers' attitudes towards OA publication across disciplines and OA publishing options (including gratis OA journals) Explore how the very different research funding landscapes across countries impact the uptake of this initiative Explore the feasibility of a standard workflow for reporting APC expenses to institutions by institutional researchers – tightly linked to progress with system (repositories, CRISs, others) ability to gradually deal with APC information mgt Technically align the way the APC information is collected and managed across institutions and countries (including centrally-managed reporting at OpenAIRE) Relying on institutions for the Pilot implementation will offer chances to: