Open Science: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Receives Funding From the French National Fund for Open Science
UPDATE: The DOAJ funding (story below) is part of a French National Fund for Open Science 210.000 Euros [approx. 228,000/USD\ Pledge to SCOSS.
From DOAJ News:
DOAJ is pleased to announce that it will be receiving €70,000 EUR [approx. $76,400/USD] in funding from the French National Fund for Open Science. The decision to allocate the funds was taken by the Steering Committee for Open Science who recognized the strategic role that DOAJ plays in promoting and vetting high-quality open access journals.
The support forms part of the implementation of the “Second French Plan for Open Science“. It is intended to support DOAJ infrastructure and to reinforce work already initiated in partnership with other French actors, such as a project to help French journals become indexed in DOAJ with the journal platform Mir@bel2022.
Learn More, Read the Complete Announcement
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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