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SCOSS gains two new members: the Association of African Universities and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries

21 Sep 2018 -

The Association of African Universities (AAU) represents more than 400 higher education institutions across the five regions of Africa while the Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ membership includes the country’s 29 largest university libraries and two federal institutions. Read AAU’s announcement.

Norwegian library consortium – UNIT – pledges 59,000 Euros to SCOSS

10 Sep 2018 -

UNIT (Direktoratet for IKT og fellestjenester i høyere utdanning og forskning), which represents Norwegian institutes of higher education and research and their libraries, has become the second national consortia to support SCOSS.

SCOSS hits half-million Euro funding mark

14 Aug 2018 -

Six months past an initial funding appeal, the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) has surpassed a key half-million Euro milestone having received pledges for funding totaling 680,700 Euros. The initiative, which intends to provide a framework for libraries, policymakers and other stakeholders to collectively fund and stabilize a vital infrastructure of freely available open science services, selected the Directory of Open Access Journals and SHERPA/RoMEO as beneficiaries of this pilot call for community funding.

Ghent University, the National Library of Sweden and Vrije Universiteit Brussels become the network’s first European funders, while Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries, Princeton University and MIT are among the first in the US to join the network.

University of Alberta Libraries becomes first SCOSS funder

1 Jan 2018 -

SCOSS gains two new members: the Association of African Universities and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries

Norwegian library consortium – UNIT – pledges 59,000 Euros to SCOSS

SCOSS hits half-million Euro funding mark

SCOSS gains support of the German Research Foundation

Two European universities among newest SCOSS funders

Multiple universities in the US and Europe commit to SCOSS

University of Alberta Libraries becomes first SCOSS funder