ALMASI
EU Projects
ALMASI
Inclusive Science Cluster
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Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally
Project Aim
The ALMASI project aims to develop a nonprofit, high-quality, and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem across Africa, Europe, and Latin America.
ALMASI focuses on understanding the nonprofit Open Access (OA) publishing landscape in the target regions and co-designing frameworks for quality standards, training, and policy development to ensure the long-term sustainability of Diamond OA, a model where neither authors nor readers pay fees.
Project Outputs
ALMASI runs from 2024 to 2027 and will produce a series of key outputs, including a comprehensive mapping of nonprofit OA publishing services in Africa, Latin America, and Europe, and policy recommendations and advocacy materials to support nonprofit OA publishing.
All outputs will be openly accessible and available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese to reflect the multilingual scope of the project.
Project partners
- AJOL (African Journals Online)
- CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique)
- DOAB (Directory of OA Books)
- DOAJ (Directory of OA Journals)
- EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries)
- ESF (European Science Foundation)
- FECYT (Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología)
- OASPA (OA Scholarly Publishing Association)
- OPERAS (OA in the European Research Area through Scholarly Communication)
- PKP (Public Knowledge Project), REDALYC (Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc)
- SPARC Europe
- TSV (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies)
- UGOE (University of Göttingen)
- UL (Université de Lorraine)
Period
Funding Programme
Funded by the European Union
Financer/Funding scheme
Horizon Europe
Total costs
2 500 308,75 €
Grant ID
101188192
ESF’s expertise
We enhance the project’s quality and impact by providing the following expertise:
Adam Brandstetter-Kunc
Project coordinator
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