Global Access Fund 2023

Applications are now being accepted for the Global Access Fund, which will offer funding for both outreach initiatives and infrastructure growth to enable organisations in underrepresented communities and regions to utilise DataCite infrastructure services.

Scope

• The following initiatives will receive money from the Global Access Fund:
• Outreach and engagement activities to support raising awareness and adoption of international and local solutions and connecting to community initiatives, such as: Building capacity to provide 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 proving the value of the connection to local infrastructure
• Events that promote open infrastructure, talk about and amplify participation and adoption strategies and plans by utilising local activities (webinars, workshops, virtual communication campaigns).
• Development of outreach resources for the distribution of information (films, social media posts, podcasts, tutorials, etc.) that details use cases, success tales, and advantages of DataCite infrastructure in local and regional contexts, including materials in cutting-edge forms and languages other than English.
• Repository, publishing, and other system development and implementation to enable organisations to include DataCite APIs and metadata are examples of open infrastructure to be developed and integrated in order to enable and promote the use of DataCite infrastructure and related services.
• Integrations of the DataCite Registry with regional and national services using the DataCite API
• Creation of new tools and systems (such as visualisations, statistics tools, metadata enrichment tools, CRIS systems, etc.) to maximise the value of the DataCite infrastructure.

The Global Access Fund will allocate funding to projects in the following areas:

1. 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.

2. 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.). 

3. Demonstrators

As part of the program and with funding from the Global Access Fund, we’ll seek to identify and incubate three demonstrators across the regions. The three demonstrators can be in the following areas.

• Leveraging and implementing open international infrastructure services for the benefit of local communities. Awarded projects should create opportunities for the local communities to take advantage of DataCite infrastructure to boost visibility of their research outputs and resources.
• Leveraging and/or establishing open local infrastructure services and communities. Under this theme, we would like to enable local organizations to connect existing local solutions to global infrastructure, to enable communities that currently do not have access to these global infrastructures to connect into the global research ecosystem.
• Facilitating indigenous knowledge sharing. There are currently many challenges surrounding indigenous knowledge recognition. Indigenous data and collections can be difficult to find, mislabeled, not properly attributed, not searchable; PID infrastructure can help enable recognition for indigenous knowledge. Beyond accessibility, the focus in this area is to fund projects that support Indigenous data sovereignty through DOI registration and metadata.

Financial Details

• For individual initiatives in each of the three categories, the following funding amounts are available:
• Activities of outreach: up to 10,000 EUR
• Construction of infrastructure: up to 20,000 EUR
• Participants: up to 50,000 EUR

Eligibility

• Applicants must be non-profit stakeholders from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, or Asia, such as research institutes, associations, NRENs, government agencies, and service providers.
• Applicants must be qualified to submit an application on behalf of their company (or other legal entity).
• Both DataCite member organisations and non-member organisations are eligible to apply.
• Applications from low-income or middle-income countries will be given preference.

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For more details, visit the Program Page