This week's US federal grants fiasco exposed the deep vulnerability of open research infrastructure.
Our new blog post dives into the data, showing the reliance on "soft" funding and the potential downstream impacts on research institutions and their budgets. It offers calls to action for funders, open infrastructures, researchers, university staff, faculty, and other individuals.
Let's discuss how we can build a more resilient future for open access and research:
https://investinopen.org/blog/call-to-action-protect-vulnerable-infrastructure-and-research-independence/
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IOI's Katherine Skinner and @lbcollister recently joined Maggie Levenstein from ICPSR at the University of Michigan in a webinar presenting early findings from our Reasonable Costs project.
Moderated by Amy Pienta, this webinar shares our findings about institutional structures and repository responses to public access mandates for funded research. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KGqkVl_utw
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IOI's Katherine Skinner will give the keynote address at this year's CHAOSScon Europe 2025. The event will take place tomorrow, Thursday, January 30 2025, in Brussels, Belgium. The keynote is titled," evaluating ways of assessing community health of open infrastructure."
Register for the event to participate either in-person or virtually via this link https://chaoss.community/chaosscon-2025-eu/
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Our Executive Director, @kaythaney will be attending the @swheritage 2025 Symposium and Summit in Paris tomorrow. If in attendance and you wanna chat about open infrastructure, feel free to reach out and engage with Kaitlin.
Register to attend either in person or online via this link: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2024/11/19/software-heritage-2025-symposium-summit/
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🌍 100 open infrastructures now featured on Infra Finder!
These platforms are indispensable in supporting open research and global collaboration. By improving community engagement, governance, and technical infrastructure, they ensure research can meet the future’s evolving needs.
Check out the infrastructures that are transforming research:
https://infrafinder.investinopen.org/
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The wait is almost over—our open presentation is happening this week! 🎉
Join us on Thursday, January 23, 2025, at 11am ET as we unveil findings from our study on the research software infrastructure landscape. We’ll explore gaps, challenges, and opportunities, and share what’s next for this critical work.
Don’t miss it—register now: https://investinopen.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/register?id=57&reset=1
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IOI has been exploring the research software landscape, uncovering gaps, challenges, and opportunities for advancing its resilience. We're excited to share our findings in an open presentation on January 23, 2025, at 11am ET! Join us to learn, discuss, and help shape what's next. 🗓️ Register now: https://investinopen.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/register?id=57&reset=1
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Public access to research matters, but what are the costs?
On Jan 23, 2025, at 1 PM ET, IOI’s Katherine Skinner & @lbcollister will give a presentation at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research into the “reasonable costs” of providing access to federally funded research.
Join us to learn about institutional practices, data center workflows, and repository challenges in an evolving research landscape.
Register here: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/about/cms/6035
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Within the scholarly communication space, the issue of how to define open infrastructure always elicits a lot of debate. Our Executive Director, @kaythaney has penned an article on how we navigate this complexity in our work at Invest in Open Infrastructure. Kaitlin reflects on the importance of careful reflection and action to prevent the barriers that can arise from overly rigid definitions of what 'open' really means.
Read the article here: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2024/talk-about-defining-open-infrastructure
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🚀 Celebrating 100 open infrastructures on Infra Finder!
These infrastructures play a key role in advancing open research, boosting collaboration, and enhancing the sharing of knowledge globally.
Check out the full list and see how they’re contributing to the future of research:
🔗 https://infrafinder.investinopen.org?utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=if_jan_2025
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Are you attending the Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) conference in Berlin this week?
Our Director of Development, Emma Green will be in attendance and would love to chat about IOI's work and to explore possible partnerships.
Emma is at #APE2025 on 14 - 15 January. If you see her, please say hi!
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📣 Calling all in the research software & infrastructure community! On Jan 23, 2025, at 11 am ET, IOI presents findings from our study on advancing the sustainability of research software infrastructure. Let’s discuss insights & next steps together.
🔗 Register now: https://investinopen.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/register?id=57&reset=1
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Discover how Infra Finder is enhancing open infrastructure discovery worldwide!
In a new article for OPERAS, IOI’s @emmyft & Chrys Wu explain the rigorous, user-focused development process behind Infra Finder. Find out about how Infra Finder is transforming open infrastructure discovery and adoption globally.
Read the article: https://lab.operas-eu.org/2024/12/27/infra-finder-discover-open-infrastructures-that-meet-your-needs/
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In November, IOI facilitated a webinar for the FORM community as part of the How to be Open Series. The discussion facilitated by IOI’s @emmyft and Jerry Sellanga centered on open infrastructure in the context of the MENA region, the opportunities to advance the use of open infrastructure and as well as potential barriers to adoption in the region.
Read our recap of the discussions from the event in our blogpost: https://investinopen.org/blog/ioi-facilitates-discussion-on-open-infrastructure-in-the-middle-east/
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IOI has been exploring the research software landscape, uncovering gaps, challenges, and opportunities for advancing its resilience. We're excited to share our findings in an open presentation on January 23, 2025, at 11am ET! Join us to learn, discuss, and help shape what's next. 🗓️ Register now: https://investinopen.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/register?id=57&reset=1
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In 2024, we launched Infra Finder, our #OpenInfrastructure discovery + evaluation tool with verified info to help organizations find the infrastructures that suit their needs.
Infra Finder has since recorded 8000+ visits from 90 countries. Users use the solution categories to better understand their infra use, the solution pages to quickly share key info about open infras w colleagues, + more
💬 How have you been using Infra Finder? Let us know through our in-app survey: https://infrafinder.investinopen.org
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You can also find out more about @oacore 's governance, technical attributes, and more from their Infra Finder profile: https://infrafinder.investinopen.org/solutions/core
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Congratulations to @oacore for their new funding from Microsoft! 🎉
"CORE will remain a community-governed infrastructure, in line with its commitments as a signatory to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructures (POSI)."
https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/news/science-mct/core-receives-funding-for-five-years-from-microsofts-open-data-initiative-to-increase-access-to-open-scientific-research/
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