£5.8 million funding to significantly expand and accelerate COPIM open access infrastructures

Announcement of the launch of Open Book Futures, a 3-year project funded by Arcadia and Research England Development (RED) Fund building on the pioneering work of COPIM.

The Publisher Playbook: A Brief History of the Publishing Industry’s Obstruction of the Library Mission

Consolidation Report: Insights from Towards a National Collection Foundation Projects

This report was commissioned by the Towards a National Collection Programme Directorate to consolidate the findings of the eight Foundation Projects funded through the programme. The main aims of the report are to digest the research done by each Foundation Project and to examine their scientific contributions to Towards a National Collection, the scholarly community, and the wider cultural heritage sector.  The research was undertaken by Dr Carlotta Paltrinieri between August and December 2022. This consolidation report is primarily based on the elaboration and cross-analysis of the Foundation Projects’ final reports[1] combined with additional readings of relevant reports in the field [See: Resources]. The author has sought further insights from the Foundation Projects’ Principal Investigators via 45-minute one-to-one interviews on Microsoft Teams, held between October and December 2022.   [1] All final reports are available here: https://zenodo.org/communities/Towards a National Collection/?page=1&size=20

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Open Science FAIR - Call for proposals

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Keeping open infrastructure open: The SCOSS 4th pledging round info session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Do you want to learn more about Dryad, LA Referencia and ROR, the infrastructures selected for the 4th funding cycle of Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS)? Please join LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries), EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) and SCOSS for a 75 minute webinar focused on these critical open infrastructures for science and scholarship, the services they provide, and how your institution can support them through SCOSS. Signifying the crucial importance of publication and data repositories and the metadata registries that support their discovery and interoperability, Dryad, LA Referencia, and the Research Organization Registry (ROR) were selected as targets for the fourth round of crowdfunding from SCOSS. In this webinar, you will hear from representatives of the three infrastructures introducing their organisations and their paths towards sustainability. This will be followed by a panel discussion with representatives from research libraries and library consortia who will talk more about their motivations and experiences in funding open infrastructure, and how SCOSS facilitates this process. Panelists: - Helen Dobson, Licensing portfolio specialist: Research, Jisc - Susan Reilly, Director IReL - Demmy Verbeke, Head KU Leuven Libraries Artes There will be time for questions from the audience during a Q&A session. Participants will learn how libraries and their consortia are committing to securing open infrastructure and why, whilst hearing about specific SCOSS-selected infrastructures who need our help to remain open, independent and community-led.

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