ALMASI

ALMASI - Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally aims to provide the research community with an aligned, non-profit, high-quality and sustainable ecosystem for scholarly communication in three regions of the world: Africa, Europe and Latin America. This will enable the scientific communities to take full responsibility for innovative, valid, reliable and accessible publication services and solutions that do not charge readers or authors, commonly known as Diamond Open Access. This non-profit publishing ecosystem will take into account the specific needs of different disciplines, world regions and languages. The project will focus on measures that harmonize and strengthen existing non-profit publishing services and solutions. ALMASI will create a framework for knowledge transfer, coordination and alignment of non-technological publishing competencies, services and solutions. The project will be implemented within the framework of the currently emerging Global Diamond Federation, which is supported by UNESCO .
Together with 15 project partners, the project coordinator European Science Foundation (ESF) will receive funding from the European Commission over a period of three years. The SUB Göttingen is part of all work packages of the ALMASI project and contributes the expertise from the project coordination of the CRAFT-OA project as well as the cooperation in the DIAMAS and PALOMERA projects, which deal with the development of a European infrastructure for Diamond Open Access in the fields of journals and books. The special focus of the SUB Göttingen is on networking with the German-speaking Diamond Open Access publishing communities.