The SCOSS Family

Since the launch of our first funding cycle in 2018, SCOSS has been selecting essential open science infrastructures (OSIs) worldwide to help them on their pathway to sustainability. To date, we have concentrated on addressing the financial sustainability of selected infrastructure by helping fund-raise.

After 6 pledging cycles, SCOSS wants to go beyond fundraising for OSIs and seeks to explore how to further strengthen the landscape by facilitating more connection-building between the SCOSS infrastructures by developing a community of practice. It is therefore now exploring where we can share resources, close important gaps and work more together to contribute to a create a stronger open ecosystem.

SCOSS Family

We call this group, this community of practice, the SCOSS Family.

The SCOSS Family continues to grow with each annual call for entries. And as in a family: we exchange ideas, disagree, discuss, and we learn from each other.

To date, this includes AmeliCA, arXiv, Dryad, DSpace, DOAJ, DOAB, REDALYC, LA Referencia, OAPEN, OpenCitations, PKPRDA, ROR, Sherpa RoMEO and Software Heritage and since 2024 African Journals Online (AJOL), Episciences, Make Data Count, and SciPost.

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