The Research Data Alliance vision is that researchers and innovators can openly share and reuse data across technologies, across disciplines and across countries to solve the grand challenges of society.

An independent, community-driven, global organisation, RDA members, from all stakeholder groups and all countries, come together to discuss and develop research data solutions to enable open science and research data management worldwide.

The overarching goals of the Research Data Alliance SCOSS funding appeal are to:
1) support the creation of global standards to enable best practice research data management, and 2) build research data management capacity and capability with stakeholders in the Global South.

You can help us do this by supporting the production of standards to enable FAIR and Open Science as well as supporting capacity building in the Global South, to ensure that science and research is truly seamless and global.

Software Heritage is an open non-profit infrastructure for archiving, referencing and sharing software source code, launched by Inria in 2016, in partnership with UNESCO.

Archiving over 260 million software projects already, it is built according to the UNESCO recommendations for Open Science: open, multi-stakeholder, non-profit, using exclusively open source components, it serves as a cornerstone for Open Science.

It simplifies the deposit of research software and associated metadata, amplifying the visibility and impact of scholarly outputs. Researchers take advantage of Software Heritage's vast collection of software projects, that enables citation, referencing and sharing of software artefacts, improving reproducibility and traceability of research. Libraries benefit from Software Heritage's robust infrastructure, which offers long-term archival and unique identification of software, removing the need for custom and in-house archival solutions.

By supporting Software Heritage, you're supporting unfettered access, reference and citation of software produced by academic research, reinforcing the principles of open science.

Dryad is an international data publishing platform and community committed to the open availability and routine reuse of all research data. We are enthusiastic about the potential for communicating and using research data to help accelerate discovery through open science. Dryad publishes research data across domains and is a powerful conduit for data that doesn’t have a home with a specialist repository. We publish only research data, and work in collaboration with Zenodo to facilitate open publication of associated software and supplementary information.

Our publishing process is fully curated: our team of curators reviews each dataset for inclusion of required metadata (such as field of science, institution and funding affiliation) and descriptive metadata that facilitates downstream discovery and reuse (such as keywords and abstract). They check that every dataset may be opened with readily available software and that there is a readme file to guide future users seeking to build upon it.

LA Referencia is the Federated Network of Latin American Open Science Repositories and provides some essential elements for the development of the international Open Science ecosystem. It was founded 10 years ago and brings together twelve countries along with RedCLARA, our regional research and education network. It provides a tool that facilitates the international harvesting, validation, and enrichment of metadata from repositories. It offers value-added services and responds to the interoperability challenges of the new OpenAIRE guidelines. This tool is increasingly being adopted outside of Latin America (Spain, Portugal, Africa). It addresses the growing need for integration with research management systems (CRIS) and aims to produce statistics to serve national decision-makers when evaluating research.

By supporting LA Referencia, you will help us develop new services such as a decentralised, sustainable and global persistent identifier service based on blockchain and extend the current usage statistics service to other infrastructures/regions contributing to a more equitable international publishing system.

ROR is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations. The ROR registry includes unique IDs and metadata for 100,000+ research organizations around the world. Registry data is CC0 and available for anyone to use and integrate via a REST API and data dump. ROR provides an open and community-driven solution to the problem of identifying affiliations in research and connecting them via open scholarly infrastructure to research outputs and researchers. Organization records are curated through an open community process and registry updates are released on a rolling basis. ROR IDs are integrated in a growing set of systems and services to disambiguate organization names and facilitate more efficient identification of affiliations and tracking of research associated with a given institution.

By supporting ROR, you are helping to ensure that ROR’s open infrastructure for identifying research affiliations can be freely and openly available to research stakeholders worldwide to track research outputs and connect knowledge.

arXiv is a curated open platform where researchers around the world can share and discover new, relevant, emerging science and establish their contribution to advancing research. As a pioneer in digital open access with a 30-year history, and as the original preprint server, arXiv.org now hosts more than 1.9 million scholarly articles in eight subject areas, curated by our strong community of volunteer moderators who balance content quality and distribution speed. arXiv offers solutions for a broad range of services: article submission, compilation, production, retrieval, search and discovery, web distribution for human readers, and API distribution for machines, together with content curation and preservation. Our emphasis on openness, collaboration, and scholarship provide the strong foundation on which arXiv thrives.

By supporting arXiv, you're supporting arXiv's vision: for all researchers around the world to have immediate, free, and open access to established and emerging research in their field.

Redalyc, based in Mexico and supported by the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM), was established in 2003 as an Open Access journal index and article-hosting platform for scholarly Open Access journals published in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal.  Redalyc includes journal quality assessment processes, full-text article hosting, automatic editorial workflow technology, metrics and author-level services. In 2018, Redalyc sought to expand its international scope. Currently, the infrastructure provides services to more than 1,400 Open Access peer-reviewed journals published by 670 institutions from 31 countries, including journals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. It provides access to more than 700,000 full-text articles in several different languages authored by 1.8 million authors from 150 countries.

AmeliCA is a multi-institutional community-driven initiative supported by UNESCO and led by Redalyc and CLACSO.  It fosters collaboration among different stakeholders, such as universities, journal editors, libraries, and the research community. AmeliCA’s driving force is its approach of science as a global public good to achieve more equitable and sustainable non-commercial scholarly communications through the respect of bibliodiversity and multilingualism that enables the academic community to lead, control, and own the lifecycle of knowledge production and communication.

DSpace is one of the most widely adopted open-source repository software in the world for managing research and scholarly materials across all disciplines, and cultural heritage materials of all types, with a focus on open access, preservation, and storage.

DSpace’s mission is to provide superior open-source software by harnessing the skills of an active developer community, the energy and insights of engaged and active users, and the financial support of program members and registered service providers. DSpace is free to download, easy to install, and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization. DSpace is used by more than 3,000 academic libraries, research centres, governments, national libraries, not-for-profit, and commercial organizations.

DOAB is a digital directory of peer reviewed Open Access books and Open Access book publishers. The primary aim of the service is to increase discoverability of OA books so that they can reach a broader audience. DOAB harvests books’ metadata, which is used to maximise dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate this metadata into their commercial services while libraries can do the same into their online catalogues, making it easier for scholars and students to discover the works. The directory is open to all publishers of academic, peer reviewed books that are published Open Access and that meet academic standards. All publishers included in DOAB are screened for their peer review procedures and licensing policies.

While DOAB is a directory that provides links to OA books, the OAPEN Library is a repository of freely accessible academic books. OAPEN works with publishers and research funders to continue building a quality-controlled collection of Open Access books and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, metadata enhancement, dissemination and digital preservation.

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is a university research and development initiative that develops open source (free) software, provides support services and learning opportunities, and conducts research, all with an eye to improving the quality and reach of scholarly publishing. PKP is best known for creating and maintaining Open Journal Systems (OJS), one of the world’s leading journal publishing platforms, as well as Open Monograph Press and, soon, preprint server software.

OJS has been developed in close association with an international community of scholars, librarians, and software developers who turn to OJS for a professional quality publishing platform, and who contribute back to it with code, translations, and other support. OJS has evolved into a major contributor to open access (OA). To sustain PKP, it needs to build out and market its PKP Publishing Services, as this unit has shown the potential to be a reliable revenue source, capable of cross-subsidizing the development of open source software and infrastructure.

Whether your institution uses PKP software for faculty, student, and/or course journals, or not, SCOSS encourages you to support PKP’s efforts on behalf of open access. With more than 9,000 journals actively using OJS, this investment in PKP’s future, is a vital step in sustaining the growth of OA around the world.

OpenCitations is an independent infrastructure organisation for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open bibliographic and citation data using Semantic Web (Linked Data) technologies. OpenCitations also undertakes related advocacy work, particularly as a founding member of the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC). OpenCitations has the potential to give institutions and individuals the ability to analyse and reuse publication citations in library collections, other infrastructures and in research.

OpenCitations fully supports the founding principles of Open Science. It complies with the FAIR data principles proposed by Force11 that data should be findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable, and it complies with the recommendations of I4OC that citation data in particular should be structured, separable and open. OpenCitations has published a formal definition of an open citation, and has launched a system for globally unique and persistent identifiers (PIDs) for bibliographic citations, the Open Citation Identifiers (OCIs), for which it maintains a resolution service.

OpenCitations has developed the OpenCitations Corpus OCC, a database of open downloadable bibliographic and citation data recorded in RDF.  The Corpus contains information on about 14 million citation links to over 7.5 million cited resources from a range of publishers. These are made freely available so that others may build upon, enhance and reuse them for any purpose, without restriction under copyright or database law.

In addition, OpenCitations is currently developing a number of linked data Open Citation Indexes using the information available in third-party bibliographic databases. The first and largest of these is COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations, which currently contains information on more than 445 million citations.

OpenCitations also provides open source software of generic applicability for searching, browsing and providing APIs over RDF triplestores.

OpenCitations is innovating the way bibliographic and citation data are managed on several administrative and technical levels. OpenCitations provides, maintains and updates the OpenCitations Data Model which is based on its widely used SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies. These can be used to encode all aspects of scholarly bibliographic and citation data in RDF, which enables them to be published as Linked Open Data (LOD).

Sherpa Romeo is an online service that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis. The service is available free of charge at the point of use and is used worldwide as a respected and authoritative source for the interpretation of publishers’ copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) as they relate to open access archiving.

Sherpa RoMEO is widely considered to be an essential part of the open access environment, in giving information and guidance to depositors who wish to make material available on an open access basis, whether in subject repositories, central archives, institutional repositories or otherwise.
Sherpa RoMEO serves the following stakeholder groups: Repository Managers and Administrators, Academic Authors and Researchers, Research Managers, Open Access Software Developers and Publishers.

DOAJ is primarily (but not only) a list of peer-reviewed open access journals covering all disciplines and more than 50 languages. Journals are listed after a detailed evaluation based on the application from journals/publishers. DOAJ receives around 500 applications per month. The rejection rate is around 50%. Evaluation is free of charge, like all other DOAJ services. DOAJ provides as well article metadata (currently 70% of journals upload article metadata) for download/harvesting. Currently, DOAJ lists nearly 9.400 journals and 2.500.000 article metadata records are available. The data DOAJ provides are harvested and downloaded with an API and integrated in all major discovery services, indexing databases etc.