Strengthening Open Infrastructure Through Community-Led Support: 2025 SCOSS Family Updates - SCOSS - The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services
peter.suber's bookmarks 2026-05-19
Summary:
"Highlights from 2025
AJOL: Significantly expanded Diamond Open Access support by onboarding 59 new journals and converting three existing ones, while delivering training webinars to strengthen capacity among African scholarly publishers.
Episciences: Raised its profile through conference presence and a new newsletter, and implemented technical integrations with key open science infrastructures.
Make Data Count: Advanced global data citation infrastructure and usage metrics, ran a Kaggle competition to improve dataset-article linking, and deepened partnerships with leading research assessment reform organizations.
RDA: Deepened community engagement in the Global South through targeted webinars. Due to insufficient funding, delayed planned standards development work.
Software Heritage: Grew its membership, launched the OSPO-RADAR project to preserve university and lab research software, and expanded its ambassador network and community learning resources.
SciPost: Grew its journal portfolio and publication output significantly, expanded into Chemistry and Social Sciences, and implemented platform improvements."