10.5281/zenodo.5347545
https://zenodo.org/records/5347545
oai:zenodo.org:5347545
Bellantone, Maria
Maria
Bellantone
0000-0002-3101-8794
Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy
Lehtsalu, Liise
Liise
Lehtsalu
0000-0002-6894-3377
Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy
Opening the Eurac Research Open Access Fund
Zenodo
2021
Open Access institutional fund; Open Access policy; Open Access uptake; Open Access in HSS; Open Access books
2021-09-07
eng
Poster
10.5281/zenodo.5347544
https://zenodo.org/communities/oai
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
In 2020 Eurac Research decided to set up an Open Access fund with the aim to grow the number and types of publication in Open Access, with terms of eligibility designed specifically to achieve such growth. This decision was taken in a context where an Open Access policy had been in place since two years.
The Eurac fund supports APCs for both full open access and hybrid journals. In doing so Eurac Research took a different stance to PlanS.
Crucially we included books and book chapters in the range of outputs that the fund does support. The latter was motivated by the wish to increase the openness and accessibility of research published by the humanists and social scientists at our institution. We expect that the book component will afford the largest increment in OA publications in 2021.
This poster presentation offers, as a case study, the approach taken by a medium-sized independent research centre performing applied research in HSS, natural sciences and engineering, to introduce a new institutional funding stream to its researchers to stress the importance of the OA policy and boost the institution’s open access output. We will outline the publishing practices and the funding context of our researchers that led us to decide for broad, inclusive criteria for the OA Fund.
Although the OA fund became operational in January 2021, we expect that by the time of the conference we will have acquired an initial evaluation based on the experience and the data gathered. We will evaluate the stimulus it has provided across the different research groups active in various disciplines at Eurac Research, with a perspective to provide also a more qualitative assessment the researchers´ level of awareness and engagement with open access.