Abstract
The Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) is an ambitious, global, multi-stakeholder effort to improve the flow of information within research and between researchers, policymakers, funders and the general public. OSI’s main goals are to improve the openness of research and scholarly outputs, lower the barriers for researchers and scholars everywhere to engage in the global research community, and increase opportunities for all countries and people everywhere to benefit from this engagement. Closely connected to this work, OSI is also focusing on correcting a broad range of scholarly communication deficiencies and inefficiencies—without these corrections, open will not be achievable or sustainable.
Highlights
The participants in the Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) conferences and online discussions hold a wide variety of views on the subject of “Open.” The Initiative has not sought consensus, but rather to provide a structure that would bring representative voices from across all of the stakeholder groups affected by the scholarly communication process in the belief that through frank and candid discussion of the issues, solutions to what are perceived as problems in the existing systems might be found.Out of those discussions, certain broad themes have emerged
The Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) is an ambitious, global, multi-stakeholder effort to improve the flow of information within research and between researchers, policymakers, funders and the general public
OSI’s main goals are to improve the openness of research and scholarly outputs, lower the barriers for researchers and scholars everywhere to engage in the global research community, and increase opportunities for all countries and people everywhere to benefit from this engagement
Summary
The Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) is an ambitious, global, multi-stakeholder effort to improve the flow of information within research and between researchers, policymakers, funders and the general public. Our primary reference will be the dozens of conference papers authored to-date by OSI participants, the thousands of emails we’ve exchanged on a wide variety of topics, and the deeper dives we’ve made via Slack and other means These briefs will all have a similar structure, including a concise statement of the topic, and a summary of previous work done, work that still needs to be done, organizations working on the topic, key stakeholders and policy makers, and strategies for collaboration (see the Annex section for a more detailed description of the issue brief philosophy and format). Participants who acknowledge the complexity of the issues we’re working on are validating our approach and effort, whether attribution credit is explicitly tied to OSI or even owing Perhaps because of this dialogue (or again, even if in spite of it), it’s becoming increasingly common to hear people in scholarly communications talk about how open isn’t clearly defined and how open solutions aren’t necessarily obvious. You can read the details of their proposal at https://journals.gmu.edu/osi/article/view/1933/1354
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