SCOSS: Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services
SCOSS: Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services
Global Sustainability
Coalition
for Open Science Services
(SCOSS)
Officially formed in early 2017, SCOSS’s purpose is to provide a new co-ordinated cost-sharing framework that will ultimately enable the broader OA and OS community to support the non-commercial services on which it depends
Challenge:
Many open infrastructures were created using short-term project money and are no longer sustainable. OA & OS infrastructure has grown in number and usage.
Funding for operations neglected.
�Risk: Services risk stagnation, downsizing or paywalling
We want an equitable and inclusive research culture.
Aim: Helping sustain the infrastructure to support the implementation of OS
OS European Infra�Landscape report
Oct 2020
key sustainability �findings
Interdependencies
W/out grants,
how long
remain viable?
Ficarra, Victoria, Fosci, Mattia, Chiarelli, Andrea, Kramer, Bianca, & Proudman, Vanessa. (2020, October 30). Scoping the Open Science Infrastructure Landscape in Europe. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4153809, p.49
If we don’t take concerted action
SCOSS:
What we do
Helps OS funders as a mediator to advise them on what to fund
Increases efficiency for OS funders
A consolidated voice that vets OS not for profit infra �to help infra on unstable footing
the kinds of OS�Infrastructure
/services�we support
We focus on supporting
important nodes of the
world’s OS infrastructure
We present a selection of infra
that needs support
based on usage and relevance
for the research community
We promote funding
SCOSS governance
SCOSS Board
SCOSS Advisory Group
SCOSS Executive Group
End responsible: SPARC Europe
Who we are
SCOSS:
What we do
Helps OS funders as a mediator to advise them on what to fund
Increases efficiency for OS funders
A consolidated voice that vets OS not for profit infra �to help infra on unstable footing
Evaluation criteria
General: scope, intentions
Value proposition and audience
Technical details
Costs
Governance
Sustainability measures, incl POSI
Foresight
BATNA
SCOSS strategy
SCOSS strategy
We create connections to sustain vital Open Science Infrastructure.
A world where research is supported
by a sustainable and thriving ecosystem of Open Science Infrastructure.
Strategic goals
Mission and vision
Pledges to date
Over 330 institutions
24 countries
11 infrastructures so far
Total pledged: 5,207,144 euros
*as of March 2023
European pledges to date
*as of March 2023
European
pledges to date
*as of March 2023
Pilot cycle
Target: € 1.549,301�59% of target reached
3-year cycle
Target: € 1.420,000�100% of target reached
3-year cycle
*as of March 2023
2nd funding cycle
Target € 505,000
100% of target reached
Target € 1.530,198
45% of target reached
Target € 734,647
49% of target reached
&
*as of March 2023
3rd funding cycle
Target € 710,250
48% of target reached
Target € 1.197,994
22% of target reached
Target € 663.074
27% of target reached
https://duraspace.org/dspace/
https://arXiv.org
https://www.amelica.org
*as of March 2023
New: 4th funding cycle
Target € 889,061
8% of target reached
Target € 268,200
14% of target reached
Target € 989,460
21% of target reached
https://ror.org/
https://datadryad.org/stash
https://www.lareferencia.info/en/
*as of March 2023
AN OPEN DATA�PUBLISHING PLATFORM & COMMUNITY
Image CC0 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qv14t
committed to the open availability and routine re-use of all research data
THE FEDERATED NETWORK OF LATIN AMERICAN OPEN SCIENCE REPOSITORIES
Open Science Repository Network formed by an association of government authorities of Science, Technology and Innovation, founded on 2012 through the signing of a Cooperation Agreement, as a result of the project financed by the IDB (2010-2013).
AN OPEN, COMMUNITY- LED REGISTRY OF RESEARCH ORGANIZATION IDENTIFIERS
What infras are doing to help sustain themselves
Mobilising themselves, connecting and coordinating efforts
SCOSS recap
Helps OS funders as a mediator to advise them on what to fund
Increases efficiency for investors
A consolidated voice that vets OS not for profit infra �to help infra on unstable footing
More information
Take things up with the infra directly�https://scoss.org/help-sustain-open-infra/�become-a-funder/
Or contact info@scoss.org
www.scoss.org
We also have a newsletter:�https://scoss.org/newsletter/
@scossfunding
A GLOBAL COMMUNITY�
Percentage of datasets in Dryad by country (top 15)
United States | 31.55% |
United Kingdom | 9.29% |
China | 5.70% |
Canada | 5.68% |
Australia | 5.53% |
Germany | 5.11% |
France | 4.51% |
Switzerland | 2.91% |
Sweden | 2.56% |
Netherlands | 2.37% |
Spain | 2.21% |
Japan | 2.03% |
Brazil | 1.70% |
Norway | 1.53% |
Finland | 1.48% |
Why fund �LA Referencia?
1. LA Referencia aggregates and provides Latin American scientific results (usually in collaboration with non-Latin American researchers) to other regional and global infrastructures by implementing interoperability agreements and services �(OpenAIRE, REDALYC, SciELO, CORE, BASE, among others)
2. The LA Referencia Open Aggregation platform is already being used outside Latin America (Portugal, Africa). �According to a COAR survey: the most used platform of its kind (globally) �
3. Decentralized ARK identifiers and Usage Statistics components will be shared with the global Open Science community, �the code and an interoperability / community-driven governance model.
100,000+ research organizations worldwide
Descriptive multilingual metadata to support discovery and disambiguation
Crosswalks to other identifiers
Data via API/data dump, updated monthly