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Defining open scholarly infrastructure
Synthesizing the characteristics and dimensions of “scholarly infrastructure” and “open scholarly infrastructure” in literature towards a more sophisticated framework of understanding.
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Preliminary investigation: Defining Open Scholarly Infrastructure
We invite your feedback on our preliminary investigation into defining open scholarly infrastructure by 3 May 2022.
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Research Update: COIs, Defining Infrastructure, and Exploring Utility Financing as a Useful Model
The following is a brief summary of our current plans for COIs, our work understanding the nature of infrastructure, and our initial working models for understanding the funding and operation of infrastructure services.
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IOI Research Fellows
Two research fellowship projects to expand and enhance our understanding of key issues related to furthering investment and sustainability of open infrastructures.
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COIs Informational Sessions Recap: Video, Slides, Notes
Last week, we held two public information sessions via Zoom to introduce the newly launched Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs). We presented details on the catalog's ideation, research process, design, prototyping, and plans for future expansion.
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COIs Initial Feedback and Learnings
Last week we shared a first look at the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs), a prototype designed to provide insight for decision makers looking to invest or adopt open infrastructure solutions. We wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the initial questions we’ve received.
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Announcing the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs)
Today we are excited to share the first look at the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs). This resource is the culmination of research, interviews, and analysis of a sampling of open infrastructure projects serving the research community.
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Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs)
The Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs) is a step towards addressing the information asymmetries that exist in understanding and assessing open infrastructure projects.
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The costs of open infrastructure: conversations with providers, funders, and institutions
We had conversations with nine open infrastructure providers, representatives of funding bodies, and institutional budget owners to surface the obstacles and challenges that open infrastructure projects face in their daily operations and long-term planning. This blog post shares initial findings.
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The Conquest of ProQuest and Knowledge Unlatched: How recent mergers are bad for research and the public
This post is written by members of IOI's Community Oversight Council on the recent corporate acquisitions involving two library services products: Clarivate, a major academic metrics company, and Knowledge Unlatched, a crowdfunded open access provider.
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Funding open infrastructure: A survey of available data sources
In this post, we discuss the various sources of data on funding and financial performance for providers of open technologies and other systems in research and scholarship.
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Funding open infrastructure: key terms and concepts in our analysis
In this post, we continue our discussion of funding open infrastructure with our key terms and a general discussion of the challenges in accessing funding data.
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