Scholarly communication around the world | Illinois State University, May 23, 2023

"While we strive to serve the Illinois State University community most directly, we are also part of a global community of researchers, scholars, and students. It can therefore be valuable for us to pull back and take a broader look at scholarly communication efforts around the world. The good news is that there are many exciting developments, from waived fees for scholars in low- and mid-income countries, to initiatives to build infrastructure for research, to national repositories for open access materials. ...Scholarly communication has always required infrastructure to support it, and the Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) initiative recently held a conference in Ghana to explore ways to further build that infrastructure in Africa. The summarized findings of the conference were that finding innovative ways to finance the infrastructure, encouraging governments to invest in it, more collaboration and coordination at national and regional levels, and further stakeholder discussions and clarification of their roles would also support developing more research infrastructure...."