Call for proposals: Open access advocacy campaigns | EIFL

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20

Summary:

“EIFL partner countries to reach out to research communities ... Open access is the immediate, online, free and unrestricted availability of peer-reviewed, research literature. It provides the means to maximize the visibility and use of research output. We advocate for open access to promote knowledge sharing... Call for proposals ... Following the success of last year's grant competition, the EIFL-OA programme invites new proposals for organising national or institutional open access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities. We particularly wish to involve active researchers and students, research administrators and policy makers, university presses, society publishers, researchers/research groups as publishers and journalists. Some examples of the advocacy actions that could be implemented in partnerships with senior management and open access champions from the faculty: [1] expanding educational materials on open access targeted toward researchers; [2] preparing and distributing open access brochures along with supporting web and multimedia materials; [3] using new media to educate researchers about open access and share best practices; [4] presentation series at faculty meetings; [5] hosting workshops and events; [6] collaborating with university presses and scholarly societies on campus-based publishing partnerships; [7] developing case studies to illustrate successful open access projects; [8] describing business models and sustainability plans for open access initiatives; [9] promoting the adoption of campus-based, faculty-driven open access policies; [10] collecting success stories, forming collaborations and networks that can deliver joint advocacy efforts; [11] building national communities of open access practitioners; [12] embedding research repositories into institutional processes, systems and culture (library management systems, research information systems, other internal and external databases) ensuring that the repository is seen by both researchers and senior managers as part of the institutional research infrastructure and as a natural tool for disseminating research and for raising researchers profile.” [The announcement also provides application procedures and supporting materials to assist applicants in developing their proposals.]

Link:

http://www.eifl.net/news/call-proposals-open-access-advocacy-campaig-0

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.universities oa.advocacy oa.societies oa.libraries oa.funding oa.cfp oa.encouragement oa.eifl oa.hei oa.announcements

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

08/20/2012, 14:45

Date published:

03/01/2012, 13:31