Re: [GOAL] Help ensure vital Open Science/Scholarship infrastructure

2020-01-24 Thread Heather Morrison 
Another question (inspired by Paige's, thanks): is there a way for researchers 
and/or research projects like Sustaining the Knowledge Commons without funding 
to commit to officially endorse SCOSS?

Dr. Heather Morrison
Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa
Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa
Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight 
Project
sustainingknowledgecommons.org
heather.morri...@uottawa.ca
https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706
[On research sabbatical July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020]

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Paige 
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2020 2:53:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [GOAL] Help ensure vital Open Science/Scholarship infrastructure

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Hi Vanessa,

How do individuals or libraries contribute to "SCOSS co-ordinated funding"? I 
don't see a mechanism on the SCOSS website. Does SCOSS serve more as a 
recommender of initiatives than a coordinating body to fund these initiatives?

Thanks for clarifying,
Paige


Paige Mann
STEM Librarian | Scholarly Communications Librarian
University of Redland

-Original Message-
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:53:07 +0100
From: Vanessa Proudman 
Subject: [GOAL] Help ensure vital Open Science/Scholarship
infrastructure remains open and free
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Dear colleagues,


Last month, SCOSS 

 , a crowd-funding style initiative intent on helping secure the services that 
comprise our vital Open Science / Scholarship infrastructure, launched our 
second funding cycle.
As a new year begins, we are working hard to continue spreading the word of 
this latest appeal to the international library community.


SCOSS was formed in early 2017 with the purpose of providing a new co-ordinated 
cost-sharing framework for enabling the broader OA and OS community to support 
the non-commercial services on which it depends. It is committed to helping 
provide funding for the operation and development of key services.


For this funding round, SCOSS thoroughly vetted four services that we are 
presenting to the international community for community funding:

* The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB 

 ), a digital directory of peer-reviewed Open Access books and Open Access book 
publishers; and Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN 

 ), a growing repository of freely accessible academic books;
*
* The Public Knowledge Project (PKP 

 ), a university initiative that creates open-source software and services, 
including Open Journal Systems (OJS), which is used to publish more than 9,000 
OA journals worldwide.
*
* OpenCitations 

 , a scholarly infrastructure service that provides open bibliographic and 
citation data;


With your help, we can help ensure that these services have the chance to 
continue to be free and open to us all.


More than 200 of your fellow academic institutions around the world have 
collectively pledged more than 1.6 million Euros during the first funding 
cycle. This support provides essential bridge funding to the Directory of Open 
Access Journals and Sherpa/RoMEO while they work to achieve more secure, 
long-term financial footing.


As a member of the community that relies on these services, we are asking that 
your institution consider becoming part of a voluntary endowment network 
supporting them.


For more details about the

Re: [GOAL] Help ensure vital Open Science/Scholarship infrastructure

2020-01-24 Thread Mann, Paige 
Hi Vanessa,

How do individuals or libraries contribute to "SCOSS co-ordinated funding"? I 
don't see a mechanism on the SCOSS website. Does SCOSS serve more as a 
recommender of initiatives than a coordinating body to fund these initiatives?

Thanks for clarifying,
Paige


Paige Mann
STEM Librarian | Scholarly Communications Librarian
University of Redland

-Original Message-
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:53:07 +0100
From: Vanessa Proudman 
Subject: [GOAL] Help ensure vital Open Science/Scholarship
infrastructure remains open and free
To: 
Message-ID: 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"


Dear colleagues,


Last month, SCOSS 

 , a crowd-funding style initiative intent on helping secure the services that 
comprise our vital Open Science / Scholarship infrastructure, launched our 
second funding cycle.
As a new year begins, we are working hard to continue spreading the word of 
this latest appeal to the international library community.


SCOSS was formed in early 2017 with the purpose of providing a new co-ordinated 
cost-sharing framework for enabling the broader OA and OS community to support 
the non-commercial services on which it depends. It is committed to helping 
provide funding for the operation and development of key services.


For this funding round, SCOSS thoroughly vetted four services that we are 
presenting to the international community for community funding:

* The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB 

 ), a digital directory of peer-reviewed Open Access books and Open Access book 
publishers; and Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN 

 ), a growing repository of freely accessible academic books;
*
* The Public Knowledge Project (PKP 

 ), a university initiative that creates open-source software and services, 
including Open Journal Systems (OJS), which is used to publish more than 9,000 
OA journals worldwide.
*
* OpenCitations 

 , a scholarly infrastructure service that provides open bibliographic and 
citation data;


With your help, we can help ensure that these services have the chance to 
continue to be free and open to us all.


More than 200 of your fellow academic institutions around the world have 
collectively pledged more than 1.6 million Euros during the first funding 
cycle. This support provides essential bridge funding to the Directory of Open 
Access Journals and Sherpa/RoMEO while they work to achieve more secure, 
long-term financial footing.


As a member of the community that relies on these services, we are asking that 
your institution consider becoming part of a voluntary endowment network 
supporting them.


For more details about the services and how they were evaluated, to see the 
suggested fee structure, and more background about this initiative, see 
scoss.org 

 .


With best regards,
Vanessa Proudman

***
Vanessa Proudman
Director, SPARC Europe

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