Deadline: 11-Oct-2024

DataCite is accepting applications for the Global Access Fund Program to enable communities worldwide to make their research outputs discoverable.

It will provide financial support for both outreach activities and infrastructure development to enable organizations in regions and communities currently underrepresented in the global open science infrastructure landscape to benefit from DataCite infrastructure services.

Scope

• The Global Access Fund will allocate funding to projects in the following areas:
  • Outreach and engagement activities to support increasing awareness and adoption of global and local solutions and connect to community initiatives, such as:
    • Capacity building to deliver training to research administrators and librarians on open infrastructure and service fundamentals (DOIs, metadata, APIs), implementation (e.g. DataCite API integration in repository and other systems, metadata curation) and demonstrating value of the connection to local infrastructure services to the community.
    • Events (Webinars, workshops, virtual communication campaigns) to promote open infrastructure, discuss and amplify participation and adoption strategies and plans leveraging local initiatives.
    • Outreach resource development to deliver content (videos, social media content, podcasts, tutorials, etc.) that documents use cases, success stories, benefits of DataCite infrastructure in local/regional contexts, including materials in innovative formats and languages other than English.
  • Open Infrastructure development and integration to enable and increase the adoption of DataCite infrastructure and related services, such as:
    • Repository, publishing and other system development and implementation to allow organizations to integrate DataCite APIs and metadata
    • DataCite API integrations to connect local and national systems with the DataCite Registry
    • Development of new tools and systems to obtain additional value from DataCite infrastructure (e.g. visualizations, statistics tools, metadata enrichment tools, CRIS systems, etc.).

Funding Information

• The following funding levels are available for individual projects in each of the areas:
  • Outreach activities: up to 10,000 EUR
  • Infrastructure development: up to 20,000 EUR

Eligibility Criteria

• Representatives of non-profit stakeholders within the research ecosystem (e.g. research institutions, associations, NRENs, government bodies, service providers, etc.) based in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia can apply. Applicants should be authorized to apply on behalf of their organization (legal entity).
• Applications are open to both DataCite member and non-member organizations.
• Preference will be given to applications from countries classified as lower or middle-income.
• Although current awardees can apply for funding, preference might be given to applications from new organizations and projects.
• Organizations can submit a maximum of one application per funding category (outreach and infrastructure), which means they will accept a maximum of two applications per organization.

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