Dear All,

We would like to invite you to join the OpenAIRE webinar and learn more about the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot on Tuesday, 19 January 2016 at 11:00 GMT. This event will be facilitated by Jisc and is targeted to UK researchers, project coordinators, research administrators and librarians.

The European Commission launched the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot early in 2015,https://www.openaire.eu/postgrantoapilot, to fund Open Access publishing fees for publications arising from finished FP7 projects through the OpenAIRE project. This Pilot provides funding for Article Processing Charges (APCs) and for Book Processing Charges (BPCs) for FP7 projects up to two years after they have ended. The FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot provides an additional instrument to improve access to research results from FP7 projects, but it does not affect authors' choice on how their project publications are made Open Access.

The webinar will consist of two parts. The first part will include presentations on the following topics:

- How the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot works;

- How organisations can work with LIBER and OpenAIRE in order to support the Pilot implementation;

- What are the Pilot results in the UK: number of granted funding requests and distribution by institutions, publishers and research journals/book publishers; average APCs paid;

- How to use the central service at https://postgrantoapilot.openaire.eu/ for collecting and processing funding requests (including a demo on submitting a funding request).

The second part of the webinar will consist of a Q&A session where Pablo de Castro will answer to any questions about the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot. We would strongly encourage you to send us your questions before the webinar so that we allow plenty of time for discussion. Please include your questions in this google document:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JSm0w3uW_l0ISGUcDID-yYwPA5Vud8jZ7DVvgP23BYQ

*Date*: 19 January 2016

*Time*: 11:00 GMT

*Target audience*: researchers, project coordinators, research administrators and librarians.

Speaker: Pablo de Castro, LIBER.

Invited speaker: Catherine Sharp, University College London.

REGISTRATION

In order to participate in this event, please register by 9 January 2016 through the following link.