Open Science support fund

The University of Lorraine has chosen, since 2018, to financially support initiatives promoting the open dissemination of scientific publications. This support is made possible by redirecting part of the credits previously dedicated to subscriptions to commercial scientific journal packages.

In recent years, this support has been extended to Open Science infrastructures (DOAJ, EOSC, Open Citations, ORCID) and to the networks that promote them (COAR, RDA, Sparc Europe).

In 2023 the support paid by the University of Lorraine amounts to 75 247 €. This amount represents 2.6% of the documentary expenses incurred in 2021 (€2,947,477, including the Elsevier national license).

For initiatives related to scientific publishing, the selection criteria are as follows:

• Open access to all scientific content and metadata (no moving barriers, no so-called hybrid journals);
• No payment by authors (refusal of APCs);
• Governance centered on scientific communities;
• Importance in the national and international scientific communication ecosystem;
• Link with the University of Lorraine (publishing authors, usage…).