This presentation on SCOSS was made at LIBER’s 47th Annual Conference on 5 July 2018 in Lille, France

1. Global Sustainability Coalition
for Open Science Services
LIBER’s 47th Annual Conference, 5 July 2018
Lille, France

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A fact
More Open Access &
Open Research policy
in Europe
=
more dependence on a
stable infrastructure
additional costs

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The context
Short-term funding / seed-money for OS
A large offering of scholarly comms solutions
Projects and new services & infrastructure
Longer-standing services & infrastructure
Publisher diversification
Who’s next?
Etc.

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Everything we have gained by
opening content and data will
be under threat if we allow
the enclosure of scholarly
infrastructures

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The context
= New roles for research funders, universities
and libraries in funding OA and OS
Action and budget lines need to coincide
Leadership and co-ordination needed
towards securing a scholarly commons

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The library spend on scholcomms
Higher demands on libraries & limited €
The sacrosanct subscription budget
More data on usage, OA production & costs
Negotiations on the big deals
OA2020
Investment in new open research models
Investment in open science infrastructure ?

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Community-funding scholcomms
SCOAP3
OLH & Knowledge Unlatched
Kotilava
Erudit
Redalyc -> Global South Science
arXiv
Scholarlyhub

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Knowledge Unlatched
http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/

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Community-funding scholcomms
SCOAP3
OLH & Knowledge Unlatched
Kotilava
Erudit
Redalyc -> Global South Science
arXiv
Scholarlyhub

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Redalyc / Global South Science
http://www.redalyc.org/home.oa

11. • The Autonomous University of the
State of Mexico has supported
Redalyc for 15 years
• “Redalyc's current reach exceeds
the university’s capacity”
“It is important to recognize
that a project with that
regional scope must not
depend on a single actor in
order to guarantee long-term
sustainability”
Arianna Becerril-García &
Eduardo Aguado-López

12. The next Redalyc, a community-based sustainable
infrastructure not only for Latin America but also for
the Global South
A coalition of institutions that are willing to
maintain the non-commercial nature of the
Latin American ecosystem and keep
supporting scientific publications that
contribute to the benefit of society and the
development of science

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arXiv
http://arxiv.org/

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The context
= New roles for research funders, universities
and libraries in funding OA and OS
Action and budget lines need to coincide
Leadership and co-ordination needed
towards securing a scholarly commons

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Leadership / Co-ordination examples
2.5% commitment
Open Research Funders Group
SPARC research into Elsevier portfolio/
approach
Human Frontiers Science Program
SCOSS

16. Global Sustainability Coalition
for Open Science Services
A Pilot

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SCOSS is
An Open Science community that evaluates
OS services to
ultimately encourage the de-centralised
international crowd-funding of
essential infrastructure

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SCOSS goal
Helping sustain the infrastructure to support the
implementation of Open Science

19. SCOSS DEVELOPMENT GROUP

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SCOSS approach 1/2
Developed by significant players in the
research, Open Science & library community
Forming a consolidated voice from trusted
stakeholders and representatives of the
international Open Science community
Establishes a system to identify and evaluate
OS services & recommend them for funding
Application
Review
Consensus
Feedback
Funding Appeal

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SCOSS approach 2/2
Creates a framework to increase efficiency
for investors & addresses community needs
Helps provide more transparency on costs
and funding needs to enable the fair
remuneration to sustain them
Provides fund-raising support to services
Unspecific to any discipline / OA or OS area
Funds longer established infrastructure

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The development process
Knowledge Exchange: Sustainability of OA
services
– Putting Down Roots, Securing the Future of Open Access Policies
Terms of Reference & The Case
Coalition-building
Governance
A pilot begins: Feb 2017

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Governance
SCOSS Executive Group
Appointed by Board; manages processes & comms
SCOSS Board
SCOSS member representatives; decision-making body
SCOSS Advisory Group
Advisory; evaluates applications; makes recommendations to the
Board; maintains the registry of OA & OS services
Membership from
across the globe necessary

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Evaluation criteria
ü General: scope, intentions, Neylon principles
ü Value proposition
ü Technical details
ü Costs
ü Governance
ü Sustainability measures
ü Foresight
ü BATNA
ü Score

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Key results
A pilot. Funding appeal launched late Nov ‘17
Statistics:
– Almost €400,000 reached.
Incl. 1 research funder (DFG) and 1 consort (LUX)
– More than 10 consortia discussing DOAJ
Capacity-building
Changing the mindset of funding OS infra

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Key challenges for SCOSS
Evaluating the services
Pricing
Service capacities

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Key challenges for SCOSS
Services making their cases
Global membership
Funding models

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What you can do
1. Read and share Making the case for SCOSS
2. Discuss pledging
– within your institution
– with your consortium
3. Pledge to Sherpa/RoMEO and/or DOAJ
– Sherpa/RoMEO to reach out this summer
4. Help promote the funding of OS
infrastructure

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A call to action
• Strive for consistent investment in Open
Science infrastructure
• Raise awareness of the need for collective
action around funding OS infrastructure in
your country, talking to
• funders, senior research mngmt, policymakers,
table it at the next library consortium meeting
• Make a budget line for OS infrastructure in
your institution

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Please get in touch
www.scoss.org
info@scoss.org / vproudman@sparceurope.org

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