Where: Society for Scholarly Publishing 40th Annual Meeting | Chicago, USA
When: 8.30–11.30AM
Scholarly communication technology and infrastructure is dominated by closed proprietary silos, riddled with gaps and saddled with rising costs that are holding back the speed and transparency of science and scholarship. Open and shared infrastructure will transform the sector, offering low cost and reliable solutions that evolve to meet future needs.
Increasing consolidation in the scholarly communications industry on top of proprietary platform silos have left publishers with limited options. As a result, many are looking for innovative open source solutions that will remain independent and within the control of the community. There are many new and promising solutions emerging including open source technologies for book or journal workflow, data storage, hosting, annotation/collaboration tools, and more.
This pre-meeting seminar will investigate how a fully open, digital-first technology and service ecosystem is already emerging and offer practical ways to engage with and utilise it. The session will include a mix of panel speakers and demonstrations of tools and workflows, leaving ample time for discussion. Open-source solutions represented include:
- eLife
- Coko Foundation
- ScienceFair
- MIT
- Stencila
- Hypothesis
- Hindawi
- DAT
- Open Source Alliance for Open Science
and others.
To find out more and register to attend visit the Society for Scholarly Publishing website.
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