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Helping secure the vital infrastructure on which open science depends

Everything you need to know about SCOSS

What is SCOSS?

The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) is a network of influential organisations committed to helping secure OA and OS infrastructure well into the future. Officially formed in early 2017, SCOSS’s purpose is to provide a new co-ordinated cost-sharing framework that will ultimately enable the broader OA and OS community to support the non-commercial services on which it depends. READ MORE >>

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TOTAL FUNDS PLEDGED

The total sum pledged encompassing all funding rounds.

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INSTITUTIONS THAT HAVE PLEDGED FUNDS

The total number of institutions that have pledged funds via SCOSS since our launch.

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INFRASTRUCTURES FUNDED

The number of infrastructures that have been, or currently are being, funded via SCOSS.

Our funders

340 institutions and counting
Over 300 institutions have contributed to date. READ MORE >>

How it works

Each year, the coalition invites non-commercial OA/OS services to apply for SCOSS co-ordinated funding. The SCOSS board evaluates applicants rigorously based on criteria including the service’s value to communities such as funders, universities, libraries, authors, research managers and repositories; and on details pertaining to their governance structure, costs, sustainability measures, and future plans. READ MORE >>

Sixth funding cycle

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AJOL

African Journals Online (AJOL) Increasing Openness, Quality, and Global Equity for African-Published Research

0%
Episciences

Episciences Premier Publishing Platform for Diamond OA Overlay Journals

0%
Make Data Count

Make Data Count Advancing Research Through Meaningful Data Metrics

0%
SciPost

SciPost Diamond-Class Provider of Genuine Open Access Publishing Services

Awardees | Current funding cycle

African Journals Online (AJOL) Increasing Openness, Quality, and Global Equity for African-Published Research

Episciences Premier Publishing Platform for Diamond OA Overlay Journals

Make Data Count Advancing Research Through Meaningful Data Metrics

SciPost Diamond-Class Provider of Genuine Open Access Publishing Services

Fifth funding cycle

15%
RDA

Research Data Alliance (RDA), The global network of research data experts, solutions, best practice and standards

12%
Software Heritage

Software Heritage, The Library of Alexandria of Software source code

Awardees | Current funding cycle

Research Data Alliance (RDA), The global network of research data experts, solutions, best practice and standards

Software Heritage, The Library of Alexandria of Software source code

Awardees | Current funding cycle

DRYAD, an open data publishing platform & community

LA Referencia, the federated network of Latin American OS repositories

ROR, an open, community-led registry of research org IDs

Fourth funding cycle

11%
DRYAD

DRYAD, an open data publishing platform & community

48%
LA Referencia

LA Referencia, the federated network of Latin American OS repositories

27%
ROR

ROR, an open, community-led registry of research org IDs

Third funding cycle

55%
arXiv

arXiv, open platform to share and discover emerging science

23%
Redalyc/AmeliCA

Redalyc/AmeliCA, open infrastructure for advancing diamond OA publishing

30%
DSpace

DSpace, the software of choice for open digital repositories

Awardees | Current funding cycle

arXiv, open platform to share and discover emerging science.

Redalyc/AmeliCA, open infrastructure for advancing diamond Open Access publishing.

DSpace, the software of choice for open digital repositories.

Second funding cycle

100%
DOAB and OAPEN

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN)

68%
PKP

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP), a university initiative that creates open source software and services, including Open Journal Systems (OJS)

71%
OpenCitations

OpenCitations, a scholarly infrastructure service that provides open bibliographic and citation data

Pilot funding cycle

100%
DOAJ

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

59%
SHERPA/RoMEO

Sherpa Romeo, a database of publishers' policies on copyright and self-archiving.

Collective Support Sustains the Future of Open Infrastructures

31 Oct 2024 -

As SCOSS’s 3-year cycle closes for arXiv,  DSpace, and Redalyc in December 2024, we are reminded that supporting non-commercial, open infrastructure is a long-term commitment. 

Through generous contributions, these infrastructures have been able to strengthen their foundations and move toward long-term sustainability. They have been able to complete necessary operational projects that traditional funders do not support, such as hiring much-needed staff, modernising legacy code, and creating documentation. Also, through SCOSS affiliation, they were introduced to new funding partners and a collaborating network of open infrastructures.

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Imagining a world without open infrastructures

22 May 2024 -

Imagine a world where thousands of peer-reviewed journals, books, datasets, and other research output are no longer available online, a world without persistent identifiers, registries, and standards for data exchange, where technical development priorities are not in alignment with community values, and where the creation of standards is not community-driven.

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Why support open infrastructures?

5 Apr 2024 -

Adopt and adapt these talking points to advocate for sustaining open infrastructures, which are the non-commercial providers of scholarly communication resources and services, including software, that support a fully open and equitable scholarly communications ecosystem

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