The call for projects is open until 22 February 2023. It benefits from a co-funding from the French National Research Agency on projects that fall under the diamond publishing model.
The call for projects is aimed at research infrastructures included in the national roadmap for research infrastructures, structures that publish scientific journals or books, support centers for publishing activities, and platforms for the dissemination of scientific publications.
The purpose of the call is the consolidation of bibliodiversity, meaning the diversity of actors in scientific editing, financing models, forms of publication and communication languages. The call aims to:
The call aims to support the dynamics of mutualization, and large partnerships in support of projects are encouraged. It is open to public and private actors. Projects can be borne by French actors or international actors that have a significant impact on French scientific publishing landscape, and whose governance relies on a notable part of a French contribution. Partnerships with international actors and the integration in a European and international context are strongly encouraged.
This call for projects is a continuation of two previous calls for proposals launched by the FNSO in favour of open scientific and scholarly publishing, which allowed the funding of 49 projects for a financial volume of 4.9 million euros.
Indicative timetable:
(Date format is DD/MM/YYYY)
16/11/2022 at 2:00 p.m. CET (UTC+1)
Opening of the SIGAP application platform
22/02/2023 at 2:00 p.m. CET (UTC+1)
Closing of the call for projects
October 2023
Publication of the results
October-December 2023
Contracting phase
To respond to the call for projects:
For any questions or difficulties, please contact: fnso.aap@cnrs.fr
Consult the selected projects from previous calls.