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Funding & Partnerships

The Open Manuscript Initiative (OMI) is an open-source effort to build interoperable scholarly authoring and publishing infrastructure. OMI welcomes cooperation with universities, research institutes, libraries, scholarly societies, journals, publishers, infrastructure providers, public bodies, funders and open-source communities.

OMI distinguishes community support from institutional and research cooperation. Financial contributions can help sustain the project, but partnership can also mean research collaboration, infrastructure provision, interoperability work, pilot deployments, evaluation, dissemination or participation in a funded consortium.

Preparing a proposal or consortium? See the OMI Grant Readiness Pack for reusable project descriptions, partner profiles, work-package structures, impact framing, budget planning, KPIs and proposal-preparation material.

Ways to support and cooperate​

Individual supporters​

Individuals can support the long-term maintenance of the open-source project, including documentation, testing, accessibility, localization and release engineering. See the Support page for the currently available support channels.

Institutional supporters​

Universities, libraries, scholarly societies, journals and publishers can support OMI through institutional cooperation. Possible forms include pilot deployment, usability evaluation, workflow validation, localization, documentation, infrastructure support and contributions to interoperability specifications.

Sponsors​

Organizations may sponsor development or maintenance while respecting OMI's open-source character and technical independence. Sponsorship does not confer ownership of the open specifications or exclusive control over the project roadmap.

Research and funding partners​

OMI is open to participation in research and innovation proposals where its scholarly-authoring, publishing, interoperability or open-science infrastructure can contribute to the objectives of the project.

Potential collaboration areas include:

  • open scholarly communication and open science;
  • interoperable manuscript and scholarly-object models;
  • journal and monograph publishing workflows;
  • OJS/OMP and other publishing-platform interoperability;
  • persistent identifiers and research metadata;
  • multilingual scholarly communication;
  • accessible and cross-platform authoring environments;
  • peer-review infrastructure and research-integrity workflows;
  • citation and reference interoperability;
  • sustainable open-source research software;
  • institutional deployment, administration and governance;
  • preservation, export and platform-independent scholarly content.

What OMI can contribute to a consortium​

Depending on the scope of a call, OMI can provide an existing open-source technical foundation and a concrete implementation environment for prototyping and validation. The project currently includes a web-based and native Studio implementation, structured manuscript handling, publication-style workflows, OJS/OMP integration work, peer-review workflows, multilingual interfaces, cross-platform packaging and institutional administration components.

OMI can therefore be positioned in a proposal not only as software development, but as a demonstrator and integration layer for testing interoperable scholarly workflows with real institutional and publishing use cases.

Possible work-package roles​

OMI-related work can naturally contribute to work packages covering:

  • architecture and interoperability specifications;
  • research-software development;
  • demonstrators and pilots;
  • scholarly publishing workflows;
  • metadata and identifier integration;
  • user-centred evaluation;
  • multilingualism and accessibility;
  • open-source sustainability;
  • dissemination, exploitation and community building.

The precise role should always be defined by the objectives, eligibility rules and expected outcomes of the relevant funding call.

Partnership principles​

OMI cooperation should preserve the project's core principles:

  1. Open standards and interoperability. Scholarly content should not become dependent on a single application or vendor.
  2. Open-source sustainability. Publicly funded core developments should, wherever contractual and legal conditions permit, strengthen reusable open infrastructure.
  3. Institutional portability. Universities, journals, publishers and researchers should retain meaningful control over their scholarly content and workflows.
  4. Researcher-centred design. Structured publishing should reduce unnecessary authoring friction rather than transfer production complexity to authors.
  5. Transparent governance. Funding relationships and project roles should not silently create proprietary control over OMI specifications.

Preparing a funding proposal​

For a concrete call, the partnership discussion should identify:

  • the call and topic;
  • consortium coordinator and eligible applicants;
  • problem statement and target users;
  • OMI components relevant to the call;
  • proposed pilots and participating institutions;
  • expected technical and scholarly outputs;
  • work-package responsibilities;
  • budget and person-month requirements;
  • sustainability and exploitation plan;
  • open-source, data-management and intellectual-property requirements;
  • impact indicators and dissemination commitments.

The Grant Readiness Pack expands these points into a reusable consortium and proposal framework.

This page describes OMI's general partnership readiness; it is not a claim of eligibility for any particular funding programme or call.

Contact​

Institutions interested in research cooperation, pilot deployment, sponsorship or consortium participation can contact the Open Manuscript Initiative through the contact channels published on this website. For community and financial support options, see Support OMI.