Ten Key Prerequisites to Securely Fund Open Infrastructure Today and Tomorrow - SPARC Europe

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Summary:

The scholarly communication community needs to call for an open, sustainable infrastructure that is community-owned — one that speaks to our open and academic values. It must be open; not closed off by vendors creating a situation where the academy becomes dependent on a suite of products that are likewise dependent on essential infrastructure, often built by the academy in the first place. For this to truly work and to offer a viable and sustainable solution, we need to develop an interconnected rich and diverse ecosystem of open infrastructure where many flowers bloom upon which a plethora of for- and not-for-profit services can be built.

Imagine a future ten years from now where Open is the default, enabled by an open scholarly infrastructure that follows principles of Open as published by Cameron Neylon et al in 2015 or by COAR and SPARC in 2019. A world where the community is involved in the good governance of infrastructure, where services and infrastructure follow open standards such as open APIs and open source; where content, metadata and usage stats are made openly available, and where we have transparent pricing and contracts.

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Link:

https://sparceurope.org/ten-key-prerequisites-to-securely-fund-open-infrastructure-today-and-tomorrow/

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oa.new oa.sparc_europe oa.infrastructure oa.tools oa.sustainability oa.economics_of

Date tagged:

10/31/2019, 08:48

Date published:

10/31/2019, 04:48