Title: Open Infrastructure Matters: Supporting Scholar-Led and Community-Driven Services to Advance Open Access

Description: This 20 minute session will examine three open infrastructure case studies: OpenCitations, OAPEN/DOAB, and the Public Knowledge Project. These three initiatives are currently being promoted by the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), a network of influential organisations committed to helping secure open access infrastructure well into the future. Our panel of services will explore how the current round of SCOSS-supported projects are ensuring a sustainable future for open access scholarly publishing, and will discuss the essential role that governments, libraries, publishers and others are playing – and need to play – in making this a reality. Following the growth of open access publishing, scholar-led and community-driven open infrastructure and innovations have supported and facilitated the vital (and now urgent) need for open knowledge. What does the next twenty years look like for these services? And how can we work together to ensure open access isn’t just a response to crises, but rather the “new normal”?

Register (free):

https://site.uit.no/muninconf/registration/

More info:

https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/5607

 
15:15PM CET
14:15PM BST
9:15 AM EDT

Date: 18 November 2020 9:15 am EST EST