Readers looking for funding for work on OA may be interested in [1] in
general, and in pages 12 and 16 of the recently released call for proposals
[2] in particular. To see if your country is eligible, check rules on
participation (page 16).
Alternatively, you can earn 450 euros per day (plus expenses) for evaluating
other people's proposals - see Page 22. I think all countries are eligible
for this.
N. Miradon
EXTRACTS FROM url [1] AND FROM url [2] (SEE BOTTOM OF THIS POST FOR THE urls)
[1] European Commission (Directorate-General For Information Society and Media)
A new call for proposals will be launched under the eContentplus programme
in 2007. The provisional date for publication is June. The provisional
deadline for receipt of proposals is 4 October 2007.
eContentplus - A multiannual Community programme to make digital content in
Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable
[2] Page 20 (budget)
An indicative amount of ^À 46.5 million is available for the 2007 call on the
budget line 09 03 02 (of which) 40% for Digital Libraries (cultural and
scientific/scholarly content)
[2] Page 12
5.3. (Research on) Targeted projects for scientific/scholarly content
Objective:
Improve the spread of European research results through conclusive
experiments with open access to digital libraries of scientific/scholarly
content. The latter refers to organised collections of published results of
scientists^Ò or scholars^Ò research work in the EU Member States or other
countries participating in the programme and includes both articles, papers,
conference proceedings, monographs, textbooks and other similar publications
and the related underlying datasets.
Expected results:
Digital scientific/scholarly content held by different types of stakeholders
is aggregated and made interoperable and available for open access across
borders.
[2] Page 16
6.2. (Studies on) Impact of the Deposit of Scientific Publications in Open
Archives.
The study will make a systematic overview of the potential impact of a
generalised policy by European research funding bodies requiring researchers
to deposit articles in open archives. It will consider the issue by
discipline and will carry out a sensitivity analysis of embargo periods of
different lengths. It will also consider the effects of the implementation
of a deposit requirement in relation to research co-funded by the Commission
(Work in support of the "i2010: Digital Libraries initiative"). 3rd quarter
of 2007; budget ^À 400 000
[2] Page 16
7. (Rules on) PARTICIPATION IN THE ECONTENTPLUS PROGRAMME
The call for proposals under this Work Programme is open for participation
to all legal entities (public and private) established in the Member States.
The call is also open to the participation of legal entities established in
EFTA States which are contracting parties to the EEA Agreement (Norway,
Iceland and Liechtenstein).
It is furthermore open to legal entities established in Turkey, Croatia and
the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia16
If grant agreements are concluded with consortia including legal entities
from these countries, such legal entities will be eligible for funding only
if the country concerned has effectively joined the Programme by means of a
Memorandum of Understanding by the date of signature of the grant agreement.
Up-to-date information on which countries are part of the programme is
available on the programme website at
http://ec.europa.eu/econtentplus.
Legal entities established in third countries and international
organisations may take part in all projects at their own expense.
[2] Page 22 (expert evaluations)
Outside experts who assist the Commission with project reviews may claim, in
addition to the reimbursement of travel and subsistence expenses, a payment
of ^À 450 in the form of a lump sum for each full working day.
/end of extracts
urls:
[1]
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/calls/proposals/index_en.htm
</a>
[2]
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/docs/call_2007/draft_ecp_2007_workprogramme.pdf
</a>
Received on Mon Apr 30 2007 - 13:54:52 BST