New Scholarly Communication Investments by CDL 2022 - July 11, 2022

July 11, 2022 Author: Ellen Finnie

CDL’s Shared Collections team, in consultation and collaboration with the UC-wide Shared Collections Leadership Group (SCLG), is pleased to have been able to invest in several important open resources and tools in Fiscal Year 2021-22, reflecting our commitment to ’invest in open’ by allocating a portion of our collections funding to the development of open content and infrastructure in support of UC scholarship and teaching...

CDL has also made new investments in two innovative and significant open access platforms and services:

• SciPost – a not-for-profit open repository publishing infrastructure, which includes innovations such as “peer-witnessed refereeing,” a form of open peer review.  SciPost is managed by scientists.  There are no author fees, and authors retain copyright when submitting for publication in SciPost. 

• OEN (Open Education Network) – a not-for-profit started at the University of Minnesota to support open textbooks, and specifically the Open Textbook Library, OEN has expanded to become a community that “advances the use of open educational resources and practices” in “both vision and practice.”

In addition, CDL has made new or expanded investments this year In response to funding requests through SCOSS, the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services, whose purpose is to “help identify non-commercial services essential to Open Science, and to make qualified recommendations on which of these services should be considered for funding support.”

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