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AEGIS-OA
DOAB
Full Project Title
Activate European Guidance and Incentives for Sustainable Open Access publishing
Project Dates and duration
March 2026 – February 2028 (2 years)
Short Description of the project
The project aims to establish a transparent, sustainable, and high-quality open access scholarly publishing ecosystem in Europe by leveraging and expanding the services of the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH). It focuses on integrating open access books alongside journals, upskilling publishing professionals through training programs, and coordinating a network of National Capacity Centres to align national efforts and initiatives across disciplines and borders.
Short Description of what OAPEN is doing on the project
The OAPEN Foundation will lead all tasks relating to the integration of book publishing into the EDCH and Diamond OA Standard (DOAS). This will include DOAS version 2.0, which will include book publishing for the first time, a complete set of articles, guidelines and training material in the EDCH. The project will also help to build a community of Diamond OA book publishing using the EDCH Registry and Forum and emerging National Capacity Centres across Europe.
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**Contact details at OAPEN **
Graham Stone
Funder statement
Grant agreement ID: 101287532
https://doi.org/10.3030/101287532
ALMASI
Project Title and URL
ALMASI project (Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally)
Project Dates and duration
Jan 2025 – Dec 2027, 3 years
Short Description of the project
The ALMASI project seeks to develop a nonprofit, high-quality, and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem across Africa, Europe, and Latin America.
Short Description of what OAPEN is doing on the project
DOAB plays a significant role in the ALMASI project, contributing to multiple work packages (WPs) over the entire project duration; By providing a focus on OA Book Publishing, Its involvement includes mapping nonprofit publishing ecosystems (WP1), developing and enriching training materials for nonprofit scholarly publishing and Diamond OA (WP3), supporting sustainability efforts through policy and funding resources (WP4), and engaging with stakeholders across Africa, Latin America, and Europe to promote broader uptake of project outputs (WP5). Additionally, DOAB supports overall project coordination and management (WP6). With a total allocation of 10 person-months, DOAB’s contributions are integral to the project’s success in enhancing open access publishing and sustainability.
Link to sign-up email/contact for the project
https://almasiproject.org/contact-2/
Contact details at OAPEN
Mary Felix
Funder statement
Grant agreement number: 101188192 (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101188192)
GRAPHIA
OAPEN
Full Project Title, acronym and URL
GRAPHIA (Knowledge Graphs, AI Services and Next Generation Instrumentation for Research and Development in Social Sciences and Humanities)
Project Dates and duration
Jan 2025 – Dec 2027, 3 years
Short Description of the project
The GRAPHIA project aims to create a comprehensive SSH knowledge graph (KG) that consolidates fragmented data into a single access point, enhancing the visualisation and analysis of SSH data. This initiative will help researchers uncover insights from unstructured data, providing clearer insights into social phenomena and cultural trends.
Short Description of what OAPEN is doing on the project
OAPEN will contribute to the SSH Knowledge Graph Use Cases. This will demonstrate how the SSH KG can enhance research by addressing cross-domain SSH data challenges. Specifically, OAPEN will collaborate with OPERAS, the OA Book Usage Data Trust (OAEBUDT) and Taylor & Francis to identify the connections between the SSH KG and the OAEBUDT data space and the wider data space community.
Link to sign-up email for the project and/or socials
Contact the GRAPHIA communication team: contact[@]graphia-ssh.eu
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Contact details at OAPEN
Graham Stone / Anna Walek
Funder statement
Grant agreement number: 101188018 (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101188018)
OAPEN-EU
OAPEN
Full Project Title, acronym and URL
OAPEN-EU (Strengthening the OAPEN infrastructure in support of EU Open Access policy)
Project Dates and duration
May 2025 – Apr 2027, 2 years
Short Description of the project
OAPEN has been funded for a two-year period to increase and strengthen the dissemination, discoverability, and preservation of Horizon Europe funded books and chapters. The OAPEN-EU project will develop and maintain a collection of books funded via Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, and FP7 framework programmes (incl. ERC funded books) in the OAPEN Library.
Objectives are:
- To support researchers who are authors of books funded via the Horizon Europe work programmes being compliant with the open access requirements of the European Commission and the European Research Council under Horizon Europe.
- To ensure open and robust infrastructure support for Horizon Europe-funded peer reviewed books.
- To increase and strengthen the dissemination, discoverability, and preservation of Horizon Europe funded books and chapters.
- To further strengthen the OAPEN infrastructure and its engagement with key OA book publishing stakeholders, like publishers, researchers, research funders, and libraries.
Link to sign-up email for the project and/or socials
https://www.oapen.org/funders/european-union
Contact details at OAPEN
Laura Bandura-Morgan
Funder statement
Grant Agreement number: 101250595 (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101250595)
OPERAS-PRIME
OAPEN/DOAB
Full Project Title, acronym and URL
Progressing the Research Infrastructure towards Maturity & ERIC Status
Project Dates and duration
March 2026 – August 2028, 30 months
Short Description of the project
OPERAS-PRIME will advance OPERAS, the distributed Research Infrastructure for open scholarly communication in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), on its pathway towards becoming an ERIC by 2027/2028. Building on OPERAS-PLUS, which prepared the preliminary draft statutes and technical & scientific description, OPERAS-PRIME will provide the organisational, financial, and operational readiness required for the formal ERIC application
Short Description of what OAPEN is doing on the project
In addition to being a member of the OPERAS Executive Assembly and running PRISM, an OPERAS service, OAPEN will contribute to the National Nodes Work package. OAPEN co-coordinates the Dutch National Node (OPERAS-NL) with the KNAW Humanities Cluster (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences). OPERAS-NL serves as the connection point between the European OPERAS infrastructure and the Dutch SSH research landscape. It will provide:
- Information and support for OPERAS services
- Networking and events for researchers, publishers, and libraries
- Improved international visibility for Dutch SSH research.
Link to sign-up email for the project and/or socials
https://operas-eu.org/projects/operas-prime/
Subscribe to the OPERAS Newsletter: https://operas-eu.org/operas-newsletter/
Contact details at OAPEN
Graham Stone
Funder statement
Grant agreement ID: 101291619
https://doi.org/10.3030/101291619
Wellcome Trust: Supporting longform outputs open access
**OAPEN **
**Full Project Title, acronym and URL **
Supporting longform outputs open access: discretionary Open Access grant awarded by Wellcome Trust
**Project Dates and duration **
Nov 2025 - May 2031 (5 years, 6 months)
Short Description of the project
Led by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL), this project will establish an integrated, scalable workflow to support the open access archiving and discoverability of life science books and book chapters. A collaboration across OAPEN, Europe PMC, and NCBI Bookshelf will develop and implement an end-to-end process for compliant book deposit, XML transformation, and full text storage and display in Europe PMC.
Short Description of what OAPEN is doing on the project
OAPEN will provide a submission portal for publishers and authors to deposit full text OA books and book chapters supported by participating funders (Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council UK and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council UK), in PDF format, along with additional metadata. OAPEN will audit the grant attribution and licensing information for accuracy.
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Contact details at OAPEN
Vaggelis Theodorakopoulos / Laura Bandura-Morgan
Funder statement
Funding Body Grant Ref: 334741/Z/25/Z