[BOAI] Call for proposals: Open access advocacy campaigns

[Iryna Kuchma]

*EIFL Open Access programme

Call for proposals for open access advocacy campaigns in EIFL partner
countries to reach out to research communities*

The EIFL-OA programme invites proposals for organising national or
institutional open access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research
communities. We particularly wish to involve scholarly and scientific
researchers, universities and colleges, and university presses and society
publishers.

Some examples of the advocacy actions that could be implemented in
partnerships with senior management and open access champions from the
faculty:
- expanding  educational materials on open access targeted toward
researchers;
- preparing and distributing open access brochures along with supporting web
and multimedia materials;
- using new media to educate researchers about open access and share best
practices;
- presentation series at faculty meetings;
- hosting workshops and events;
- collaborating with university presses and scholarly societies on
campus-based publishing partnerships;
- developing case studies to illustrate successful open access projects;
- promoting the adoption of campus-based, faculty-driven open access
policies;
- collecting success stories, forming collaborations and networks that can
deliver joint advocacy efforts;
- building national communities of Open Access practitioners.

*Application procedure

Proposals should:*
- Provide an overview of current open access activities in your country and
institution.
- Describe your advocacy strategy: how do you plan to reach out to research
communities.
- Describe your project work plan and time frame. Note that the duration of
the grant can be from 3 to 10 months.
- Describe how your advocacy work will improve the current situation or how
it will add to the evidence base.
- Describe your goals and the measurement(s) of success that you will use.
- Provide a budget to support your action plan. Note that EIFL financial
contribution is limited up to 4,000 USD.
- Be written in English.
- Application deadline is February 28th, 2011.

If you are looking for examples of successful advocacy campaigns, please see
the following websites:
Open Access Week http://www.openaccessweek.org/;
Repository Support Project: http://www.rsp.ac.uk/grow/advocacy/;
NECOBELAC project: http://www.necobelac.eu;
SPARC: http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/index.shtml;
Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS):
http://www.openoasis.org.

The EIFL-OA programme manager will be available to support your work during
implementation of your projects.

*Who can apply*

Libraries and organisations from EIFL partner countries
http://www.eifl.net/where-we-work are eligible to participate. Applications
are invited from any individual libraries and organisations or pairings or
groups of libraries and organisations under EIFL partner consortia umbrella.

*How to apply and deadline*

1.      Please fill in the application form that can be downloaded here:
http://www.eifl.net/system/files/201101/eifl-oa_application.doc.

2.      Then, you MUST submit the application form online here:
http://www.eifl.net/webform/eifl-oa-call-proposals-submission-form.

3.      In case you have technical problems, you can send your application
form to iryna.kuchma[@]eifl.net

Application deadline is *FEBRUARY 28th 2011*.

*Programme support*

This programme is supported by Information programme, Open Society
Foundations.

*Evaluation procedure and publicity*

Funding is granted on a competitive basis. Winners will be notified by
approximately March 14, 2011.

Grant recipients will be featured on the EIFL website and Open Access
Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS): http://www.openoasis.org.

*Contact person*

If you have any questions or need clarifications, please contact the EIFL-OA
programme manager, Iryna Kuchma (iryna.kuchma[@]eifl.net).
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