Engaging with Open Infrastructure Globally | 1 August 2023 | FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute (FSCI)

"A robust and resilient research infrastructure — one that supports the tools, services, and systems that researchers rely on — is essential to ensuring that the research process is as efficient and effective as possible. When research infrastructure is open, it is typically supported financially by membership fees, (time-limited) grant funding, or a combination of the two, and has a community-led governance structure. Open infrastructures are usually available globally but often adoption is spread unevenly. DataCite, ORCID, and Crossref are open infrastructure organizations focused on connecting research entities and making them findable, uniquely identified, citable, and interoperable. All three are internationally focused, nonprofit, community governed, membership-based organizations that provide foundational open scholarly infrastructure. DataCite, ORCID, and Crossref all have the same core service: provision of unique, persistent identifiers and associated repositories of metadata and links accessible through open APIs and public datasets. Each set of services is centered on each organization’s focus research entity(s)...."