This post is part of a series in which we share more about what we’re working on and what we’re learning. Read our last update.
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On to the update …
What we are working on:
- We presented our plans to assess the financial health of nonprofits in research and scholarship, using public financial information from 18 nonprofit orgs to test out our methodology. We’re hosting a community discussion on Aug 9, 12pm ET to gather your feedback and thoughts on this topic - please join us!
- We’re hiring a research data analyst with a background in either nonprofit management and analysis, or the scientific, scholarly, and information management spaces. Remote friendly! Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until August 15, 2022.
- Our Executive Director Kaitlin Thaney presented our work and plans at the UNESCO Open Science Infrastructures Working Group meeting. You can find a recap of the event and a link to her slides on our blog.
- We submitted our community’s response to the UNESCO Global Call for Best Practices in Open Science. Many thanks to the 10+ community members who joined our community workshop in June to contribute ideas, draft, and review this response.
- We welcome Matt Canute as an affiliate data engineer. Matt will work on designing and building more robust data architecture for the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs).
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Who we are talking to:
- Matt Day, Head of Open Research Policy & Partnerships at Cambridge University Press, about potential areas of support in identifying opportunities for more alignment and adoption of open infrastructure services to support their work.
- Joe Deville (Lancaster University; Mattering Press) and Rupert Gatti (Trinity College; Open Book Publishers) on the Open Book Collective, and forthcoming work around open infrastructures to support open book and monograph publishing.
What we are reading/exploring:
A list of highlights below — for a more comprehensive view, please check out the Open Infrastructure Tracking Project (now also on Twitter).
- Social cost: Why traditional startups struggle to disrupt the academic publishing industry by Gabe Stein, 8 July 2022.
- Green light for the [Italian] National Plan for Open Science by Sara Di Giorgio 21 June 2022.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Understanding and Embedding Design Justice in Design Processes, 13 July 2022.
- Gates Foundation Adds $20 Billion to Its Coffers, New York Times, 13 July 2022.
- Ex-Google chief’s venture aims to save neglected science software, Nature.com, 13 July 2022.
Upcoming events/talks:
We look forward to meeting you at the following events!
- California Digital Library's Next Generation Library Publishing Project Pilot webinar, 21 July 2022
- Evolving landscape of STEM community manager roles - findings from the CSCCE community manager case studies, Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement, 20 July 2022.