Support for infrastructures selected in the framework of the 6th SCOSS call for funding

The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space has decided to continue its support for the international infrastructures selected by SCOSS (the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) in the framework of its sixth call for funding. In this way, France is continuing its commitment to international infrastructures that structure open science.

The three infrastructures receiving support are Make Data Count, SciPost and African Journals Online (AJOL). The French infrastructure Episcience was also selected in the 6th SCOSS call and is already funded by the Ministry in the framework of its ongoing support for the Centre for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD).

• Make Data Count is an international initiative that encourages the development of responsible, standardised and comparable data metrics to evaluate usage and impact of open research datasets. Make Data Count develops open tools and work processes to collect, aggregate and display data views, downloads and citations that repositories, publishers and platforms can use to make meaningful comparisons. This initiative will receive financial support amounting to €75,000 over three years.
• SciPost is a diamond open access publishing infrastructure created by and for scientists. It provides a comprehensive online infrastructure that covers all publishing requirements from preprints to metadata with a strong focus on openness and high editorial quality. It will receive financial support amounting to €40,000 for three years.
• African Journal Online (AJOL) is the leading scientific publishing platform in Africa. AJOL aims to expand access to high-quality African research journals in Africa and beyond. For 25 years, AJOL has been offering free online hosting and technical support to hundreds of African journals while also running training courses and providing specific suggestions and recommendations to the journals it supports. Every month, millions of articles are downloaded from the platform. The financial support amounts to €20,000 over three years.

SCOSS’s work began in 2018 and has enabled €7.4M to be collected. It now continues with the publication of the 2026 call for expressions of interest.

Find out more:

• The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services : https://scoss.org/
• Make Data Count : https://makedatacount.org/
• Scipost : https://scipost.org/
• AJOL : https://www.ajol.info/