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 - m.felix[@]oapen.org
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
Sign up for the GRAPHIA newsletter here.
Contact details at OAPEN
TBC
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: l.bandura[@]oapen.org
Funder statement
Grant Agreement number: 101250595 (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101250595)
Open Book Futures
DOAB
Full Project Title, acronym and URL
COPIM Open Book Futures Project
Project Dates and duration
May 2023 - April 2026, 3 years
Short Description of the project
Open Book Futures (OBF) supports community-led, scholar-led, not-for-profit open access book publishing by developing and scaling infrastructure, tools and business models. Key goals include improving metadata, archiving, accessibility and multilingual support; incubating OA book projects; and fostering global bibliodiversity. Core initiatives include the Open Book Collective, Thoth Open Metadata, the Opening the Future model and the information resource Copim Compass, designed to promote OA book publishing best practices.
Short Description of what OAPEN is doing on the project
DOAB is supporting Open Book Futures in pushing forward a richer, more equitable, resilient OA book ecosystem - with better tools, models, infrastructure, outreach, and financial support for smaller and diverse presses. DOAB is playing a critical role through its network - specifically supporting with project-wide outreach, particularly WP2, WP3, WP4 through collaborative initiatives and events, fairs, conferences, joint workshops and webinars (incl. via communication - blog posts and other write-ups). DOAB also supports work on the Copim Compass and accessibility (WP5) - assisting with research into legislation and through publisher consultations.
Link to sign-up email for the project and/or socials
https://copim.pubpub.org/open-book-futures-project
Contact details at OAPEN
Jordy Findanis: j.findanis[@]oapen.org
Funder statement
The project is funded by Arcadia and the Research England Development (RED) Fund.
OAPEN Closed projects
PALOMERA
OAPEN
Project Title, acronym and URL
PALOMERA – Policy Alignment of Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area
Project Dates and duration
Jan 2023 – Dec 2024, 2 years
Short Description of the project
PALOMERA investigated the reasons why, in contrary to article publishing in journals, academic books have not been a focus point for open access (OA) policymakers within the European Research Area (ERA). Consequently, books are only rarely mandated to be published OA by research funders and institutions. Based on collected evidence, PALOMERA provided actionable recommendations and concrete resources to support and coordinate aligned funder and institutional policies for OA books.
Short Description of what OAPEN is doing on the project
Sustaining key project results has been a clear ambition for PALOMERA from the start. OAPEN has been deeply involved in the development of these results and will help ensure their durability with a main focus on the following three areas.
Knowledge Base
The PALOMERA Knowledge Base is a rich source for policymakers and other stakeholders who are searching for OA book policies in Europe. It’s an efficient tool for exploration and identification of policies within the 39 countries that we have researched during the project. The technical maintenance of the Knowledge Base is secured by OAPEN and the workflows are being developed by us with support from the community.
OAPEN OA Books Toolkit
The OAPEN OA Books Toolkit now contains a new funder and policy section as a result of the PALOMERA project. This consists of short articles digesting the vast research that we have produced. In this way, our research findings are disseminated to a wide audience since the Toolkit (established in 2020) is already used globally by many stakeholders to gain knowledge about OA book publishing. The Toolkit is overseen by a large editorial advisory board representing relevant stakeholders in the field, promoted widely, and operated by OAPEN.
Policy Forum for OA Books
Building on the PALOMERA Funder Forum, OAPEN, Science Europe, and cOAlition S jointly established a continuation and expansion of the Funder Forum to a new Policy Forum on OA Books. The Policy Forum had its first meeting in May 2025. The purpose of the Policy Forum is to exchange knowledge between OA book policymakers but also – importantly – to address the PALOMERA recommendations in a structured and solution-focussed way.
Link to Website and/or Zenodo community
https://operas-eu.org/projects/palomera/
https://zenodo.org/communities/palomera/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest
Funder statement
Funded through EC grant number 101094270 (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101094270)
OPERAS-PLUS
OAPEN
Full Project Title, acronym and URL
On the road to sustainability: paving the way for OPERAS as an efficient open Social Sciences and Humanities scholarly communication Research Infrastructure (OPERAS-PLUS)
Project Dates and duration
Sep 2022 – Aug 2025, 3 years
Short Description of the project
OPERAS-PLUS aimed to support the open scholarly communication process for the Social Sciences and the Humanities in the European Research Area and the development of the infrastructure in its preparatory phase and on its way towards implementation as The European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC).
Short Description of what OAPEN is doing on the project
OAPEN supported the network of national nodes and their national activities; and helped to develop the services portfolio by providing both required technology and a monitoring system for services development.
Website and/or Zenodo community
https://operas-eu.org/projects/operas-plus/
Funder statement
Funded through EC grant number 101079608 (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101079608)