The EIFL-OA programme invites new proposals for organizing national or institutional open access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities. These proposals 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:
•Expanding educational materials on open access targeted toward researchers;
•Preparing and distributing open access brochures along with supporting web and multimedia materials;
•Using new media to educate researchers about open access and share best practices;
•Presentation series at faculty meetings;
•Hosting workshops and events;
•Collaborating with university presses and scholarly societies on campus-based publishing partnerships;
•Developing case studies to illustrate successful open access projects;
•Describing business models and sustainability plans for open access initiatives;
•Promoting the adoption of campus-based, faculty-driven open access policies;
•Collecting success stories, forming collaborations and networks that can deliver joint advocacy efforts;
•Building national communities of open access practitioners;
•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.
Application deadline is Monday, April 2nd, 2012.
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