Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services established

Recently, a significant step toward ensuring the sustainability of non-commercial open science services was taken with the launch of a new coalition.

The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services has as its mission to provide a co-ordinated, cost-sharing framework to secure the future of non-commercial OS services that underpin the development of wider global open science.

The groundwork for the coalition was laid by Knowledge Exchange, which presented many of the foundational ideas for it in its 2016 report Putting Down Roots, Securing the Future of Open Access Policies. Acting on these ideas, last year, SPARC Europe facilitated an international group representing research funders and research performing organisations, working collectively to define the terms of reference, evaluation procedure and governance structure for what would become the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services.

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