OpenAIRE NOADs and the EC FP7 post-grant Gold Open Access Pilot : OpenAIRE blog

"A first webinar on the EC Gold Open Access Pilot was delivered to OpenAIRE National Open Access Desks (NOADs) on May 19th following the release of the Pilot policy guidelines on May 7th. The main aim of this dissemination activity was to provide an update on the current state of the Pilot to the OpenAIRE node institutions across the EU that will collaborate with LIBER in further disseminating the initiative in their respective countries. The webinar, which was hosted by EIFL, had 32 attendees from NOADs in 24 countries. This large attendance shows a strong interest for this FP7 post-grant Gold Open Access Pilot and offered opportunities for an interesting Q&A session after the Pilot presentation. This presentation covered aspects such as a review of the main Pilot policy guidelines and its associated FAQs, a brief introduction to the way the central system for collecting and processing funding requests will work once the current testing stage is completed and the system gets released, the ongoing collaboration process with a number of institutions across Europe for the Pilot kick-off (some of which are NOADs themselves such as TU Delft or the Trinity College Dublin) and how NOADs can liaise with the Pilot coordination in order to collect further information and send in their comments or questions ..."