Project Details

Project acronym:  ALMASI

Full project title: Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally

Project duration: 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2027

Number of partners: 16 partners from 10 countries covering 3 regions (Africa, Europe, Latin America)

Contact: johan.rooryck[at]operas-eu.org

Funding: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01-08 – Global cooperation in not-for-profit open access publishing

Project page on Cordis: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101188192 

Website: https://almasiproject.org/ 

Project Description

The ALMASI project works towards:

  • A better understanding of the current landscape of nonprofit OA publishing in the three regions;
  • Co-designing and aligning measures for quality standards, training resources, as well as institutional and national policy development to ensure the sustainability of nonprofit OA publishing.
  • This will enable scholarly communities to take full responsibility for innovative, valid, reliable and accessible publishing services and solutions that do not charge fees to readers or authors, commonly referred to as Diamond Open Access. 

An aligned nonprofit publishing ecosystem will take into account specific needs across the diversity of disciplines, geographical regions, and languages. It will focus on the harmonization and consolidation of existing nonprofit publishing services and solutions, and establish a common framework for knowledge transfer, coordination, and strategic alignment.

Partners:

The ALMASI consortium involves 16 partners from Africa, Europe, and Latin America.

  1. AJOL
  2. CNRS
  3. DOAB
  4. DOAJ
  5. EIFL
  6. ESF
  7. FECYT
  8. IRD
  9. OASPA
  10. OPERAS
  11. PKP
  12. SPARC Europe
  13. TSV
  14. UAEMEX
  15. UGOE
  16. Université de Lorraine

Check full list with links on the ALMASI project website.

Project Outcomes:

Greater alignment of the nonprofit scholarly publishing models across Africa, Europe and Latin America.

Sustainable cooperation and knowledge transfer between nonprofit publishing services across the 3 regions

Increasing the share of nonprofit scholarly publishing services in these 3 regions.