LIBER-SCOSS Webinar: Building a Sustainable Future for Open Science
Building a Sustainable Future for Open Science: Meet SCOSS’s Latest Endorsed Infrastructures
The Open Science movement depends on strong, sustainable infrastructures. A lot of them are organised as non-commercial and scholar-led entities with a need for a sustainable business model. How can the library community ensure these critical services continue to thrive? This is a common issue from SCOSS (the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) and LIBER. With this webinar, we aim to introduce the LIBER community to SCOSS and highlight its role in supporting Open Science infrastructure and also showcase examples of SCOSS-endorsed infrastructures. Representatives from each initiative will share their vision and impact.
Join us for a dynamic discussion and find out how these services are driving global change by increasing equity, transparency, and innovation in scholarly communication.
Learn how these infrastructures fill crucial gaps in the Open Science landscape and how institutions and individuals can contribute to their long-term success.
This session will give you actionable insights on supporting sustainable, community-led scholarly infrastructure.
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Get to know the speakers
Olaf Siegert is the Head of Publication Services at ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. His team mainly focuses on Open Access and Research Data Management. They provide discipline-specific infrastructure services for the research community in Economics and Business Studies. This includes the disciplinary repository EconStor, the Open Library Economics to support Diamond Journals and the ZBW Journal Data Archive for the storage of publication-related research data. Olaf is also part of national and international networks with relation to Open Science (e.g.COAR,RePEc and the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany). Within LIBER, Olaf is the Co-Chair of the Open Access Working Group.
Rosalie Lack is the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) Coordinator. She is responsible for managing SCOSS family community activities, implementing communications, and contributing to strategic initiatives. She has worked previously with the African Digital Library Support Network (ADLSN), the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), California Digital Library (CDL), and Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL). She has a Master of Information Management and Systems from UC Berkeley School of Information and a Master of Studies in Law from UC Law San Francisco.
Susan Murray has been the Executive Director of African Journals OnLine (AJOL) since 2010, after serving as its Manager for three years prior, bringing with her an academic background in Development Economics and experience in nonprofit training organisations. She has grown AJOL from a short online list of some African peer-reviewed journals to a large full-text online platform (using Free and Open Source software) of rigorously assessed and supported African research journals. AJOL now provides various services to millions of people within the continent and around the world. Murray is and has been an Advisory Committee Member and Board Director of several regional and global scholarly initiatives, an experienced workshop facilitator, and a frequent conference speaker.
Raphaël Tournoy is the Head of the Episciences platform, a diamond open-access scientific publishing service operating on the overlay journal model. Since 2018, he has overseen its development, integrating services with open repositories to enhance transparency and reproducibility in scientific publishing. Prior to this role, Tournoy contributed to the technical and software infrastructure of the HAL open archive at the Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD).
Iratxe Puebla is the Director of Make Data Count and drives the initiative’s work to develop tools and practices for the meaningful evaluation of the use of data. Make Data Count leads open infrastructure for tracking and normalising data usage, and community collaboration to enable evaluation and reward of the reach of open data, for example, through its current partnership with HELIOS Open to advance data evaluation at institutions. Prior to this role, Iratxe worked at ASAPbio, where she led initiatives to promote the use of preprints and transparency in peer review. She also held editorial roles at different open-access journals and served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the journal PLOS ONE. Iratxe is a member of the FORCE11 Board of Directors and the OpenCitations Advisory Board.
Jean-Sébastien Caux is Professor of Low-Dimensional Quantum Condensed Matter at the University of Amsterdam. After undergraduate studies in Montréal, he moved to Oxford where he obtained his doctorate in 1998. Following a postdoc in Vancouver, he returned to Oxford as Postdoctoral Fellow in All Souls College, finally landing in Amsterdam in 2003. He is the recipient of (among others) the NWO Vici and ERC Advanced grants. Prof. Caux is a strong believer in openness in scientific publishing, and is the founder, chairman and lead developer of SciPost, a non-profit foundation providing publishing solutions serving science and scientists and which operates the scipost.org genuine open access publication portal.