new OSI website coming soon

[Glenn Hampson]

Hi Folks,

 

It’s been a while since I’ve bothered you with an email. Hopefully all is going well as your school years approach an end and your “summer” (depending on which side of the planet you live) plans take shape.

 

As you know, OSI is now moving into the “action” phase of its work. The action plan sprang forth from your recommendations in OSI2016 and OSI2017, and was formalized by your summit team during the OSI2018 meeting. This is where we are at the moment:

 

1. A new OSI website is pretty close to being launched. This website (osiglobal.org) will replace the current one (osinitiative.org) and will focus on promoting the ideas you have come up with. As a bridge to the world outside OSI, this site will serve to help us reach out to other global leaders, build on your ideas, build partnerships to help create action, and more. UNESCO is prepared to take what we produce at this stage and “endorse” it by way of creating official policies and helping roll these policies out to global audiences.
2. A key part of this new website will be OSI issue briefs. These are summaries of key issues in scholarly communication, written for general audiences, and outlining not only the broad OSI perspective but also the action framework---who else is working on this issue, where are the pressure points with regard to policy reform, and what steps should come next. Claudia Holland is managing the OSI briefs process---the topic list, editorial and review process, etc.---and will email you soon with an official invitation to help write some of these. I will help every author by going through the OSI archives---listserv conversations, workgroup reports, etc.---and pulling together the raw material for each topic. Scott Plutchak will be the editor-in-chief for each brief in order to give all of these a consistent voice.
3. Additional content in this site is welcome---articles you write or cross post from your personal blogs, scholarly communication events we should list, and more.

 

That’s mostly it----once this site is launched it will become clearer what else we need and we’ll work quickly to fill in the gaps. For instance, many of you have long recommended that we develop some promotional materials for OSI (slide decks, etc.) or maybe for the open spectrum. I’ll leave a “coming soon” note on the site for these materials and will work on them over the coming months. Other recommendations are welcome, as well as your feedback/edits on the new site, of course. The summit group will look at this site during their June meeting, and I expect you’ll be able to review it shortly thereafter---around July 1. We’ll do a “soft launch”---we’ll make it live for you to review but won’t promote it until you’ve had a chance to comment.

 

Many thanks as always,

 

Glenn

 

 

Glenn Hampson
Executive Director
Science Communication Institute (SCI)
Program Director
Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI)

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