Europe: Some Data About OpenAIRE FP7 Post Grant Open Access Pilot

From an OpenAire Blog Post:

OpenAIRE is currently preparing its final reporting on the uptake and metrics of the OpenAIRE FP7 Post Grant Open Access Pilot.
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The Pilot, originally intended to end on April 30^th 2017, had been granted a 10 month extension and has come to an end in February 2018.
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In total, the Pilot has funded 1 323 publications:  1 232 articles, 71 monographs, 18 book chapters and 2 conference proceedings.
The Pilot had installed a funding cap of € 6 000 for monographs and € 2 000 for all other publication types (mainly articles). If the original author fee exceeded this amount, the submitter was asked to provide a partial invoice or request for reimbursement that did not exceed this amount.
The average author fee for articles processed is € 1 474 and the median fee is € 1446.
The Pilot only funded articles that appeared in ‘full’ open access journals. Hybrid journals, that offer a mix of subscription based and open access articles, have been explicitly excluded from funding, which explains the relatively lower share of some well-known legacy publishers  offering mainly hybrid journals in these statistics.

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