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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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EIFL Open Access Advocacy Campaigns Grants

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The EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) Open Access programme invites new proposals for organising national or institutional open access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities. Supported by the Information Programme of the Open Society Foundation, the programme is designed to involve researchers and students, research administrators and policy makers, university presses, and society publishers. Some examples of the advocacy actions that could be implemented in partnerships with faculty, students, and senior management include:

  • Encouraging more student engagement in the open access movement;
  • Encouraging more engagement from researchers, research organisations, scholarly societies, and Academies of Sciences in the open access movement;
  • Expanding educational materials on open access targeted toward researchers and students;
  • Preparing and distributing open access brochures along with supporting web and multimedia materials;/li>
  • Using new media to educate researchers about open access and share best practices;
  • Presentation series at faculty meetings;
  • Hosting workshops and events;
  • Collaborating with university presses and scholarly societies on campus-based publishing partnerships;
  • Developing case studies to illustrate successful open access journals and repositories; and
  • Describing business models and sustainability plans for open access journals and monographs, open access repositories.

Click here for more information about the award.

Application Info

Applications are invited from any individual libraries and organisations or pairings or groups of libraries and organisations under the EIFL partner consortia umbrella. To apply applicants are to fill in the application form and submit the project application online.
Proposals should:

  • Provide an overview of current open access activities in your country and institution.
  • Describe the advocacy strategy: how to reach out to research communities.
  • Describe the project work plan and time frame. Note that the duration of the grant can be from three to eight months.
  • Describe how your advocacy work will improve the current situation or how it will add to the evidence base.
  • Describe the goals and the measurement(s) of success that to be used.
  • Provide a budget to support your action plan. Note that EIFL financial contribution is limited up to US$4,000.
  • Be written in English.

Click here to download application form in Word format.

Click here to submit your application online.

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EIFL website on March 28 2013.