Farewell!
Glenn Hampson
Hi Folks,
Long time no see! I hope everyone has been doing well.
I wanted to let you know that OSI will be officially folding its tent at the end of this year. This will mark our 10th anniversary, and from the outset, I promised everyone this would be a 10-year-long effort. Here’s what comes next:
- I’ll keep the OSI listserv in place for at least one more year to make sure our former conversations are still accessible, but at some point in the near future I’ll try to download and archive these records and then delete the list.
- All our reports, infographics, conference records, presentations and other content are archived on the SCI website at https://sci.institute/osi. The VORs of our policy papers are also archived on the Mason Journals website (formerly Mason University Press).
- Building on the lessons learned in OSI, SCI will continue to engage in open science issues as these develop over the coming years. Please reach out if there’s anything I can do to help you with your work.
- SCI has started applying the lessons learned from OSI---both the operational ones and also what we learned about open science---to challenges outside the open scholarship bubble, specifically the climate crisis. Our new global group of climate leaders and experts is similar in size and diversity to OSI, but rather than debating what open means, we’re applying the key tools and philosophies of openness (beginning with networking, sharing, and cross-stakeholder collaboration) to a grand challenge and seeing where this leads (and if we need to draw in more open tools and methods over time like licensing and data warehouses, we know who to call 😊). This is the approach to open recommended in our policy paper #4---our open solutions paper: Do something with open. Fingers crossed. You can read more about this work at https://cdranet.org. And finally,
- If you’ve been relying on this listserv for scholarly communication debate (which I’m sure hasn’t been the case of late, but just in case), make sure to join Rick Anderson’s Open Café at openc...@listserv.byu.edu (if you haven’t already), plus read the Scholarly Kitchen, Clark & Esposito’s monthly newsletter, and James Butcher’s Jounalology newsletter. For starters anyway 😊
Otherwise, I think that’s a wrap, right? I’ve been worried this past year about how to finally summarize your work in OSI. Then again, I think what you’ve produced speaks for itself as is still as current and relevant as the day it was published---no summary needed. You invested a lot, and accomplished a lot.
It’s been a fascinating journey as well. By the time our conversations started picking up steam in 2016, the scholarly publishing community had already been debating these issues for a dozen years. This group was able to put forward so many so thoughtful ideas and perspectives that were incredibly well-informed (thanks to your constant engagement) and years ahead of their time. Did this conversation help change the tenor of the global debate? Maybe in some small way---it probably didn’t inflame the debate anyway. In the end, it’s encouraging to know that our final 2023 policy recommendation to learn from what works and doesn’t work in this space (our evidence-based open solutions approach from policy paper #6) may be starting to gain currency.
To our key conversationalists over the years---Rick Anderson, Joe Esposito, Lisa Hinchliffe, Mel DeSart, Susan Fitzpatrick, Danny Kingsley, Caroline Wagner, David Wojick, Margaret Winker, Richard Poynder, Jack Schultz, Jon Tennant, Toby Green, Roger Schoenfeld, Anthony Watkinson, and so many others--- thank you for all your time, energy, engagement and good will. To our policy report co-authors (Lynn Kamerlin, Mel DeSart, Lisa Hinchliffe, Jason Steinhauer, Hillary Hanahoe, Chris Graf, Elizabeth Gadd, Micah Vandergrift, Chris Erdmann, Rob Johnson), numerous workgroup paper and other authors, conference speakers, and sponsors, thank you all as well. Most of all, thank you to those who served on our steering committee and otherwise helped us navigate this terrain---Rick Anderson, Scott Plutchak, Joann Delenick, Mel DeSart, John Warren, Joyce Ogburn, Eric Olson, Claudia Holland, Chris Erdmann, Nina Collins, Patrick Herron, Kim Barrett, Richard Gedye, Rob Johnson, Simon Linacre, Bhanu Neupane, Abel Packer, Vicky Williams, Nancy Davenport, Wim van der Stelt and others---plus our summit group delegates, conference helpers, colleagues who invited OSI to present at events or sit for interviews, and so much more. It’s a long list! I’m sorry if I’ve forgotten to mention anyone. And finally, three special shout outs: One to Eric Olson, who joined SCI as a volunteer long ago and was responsible for getting us plugged into George Mason University (which made our first conference possible), and who also served tirelessly as a steering committee member and conference volunteer; another to Mel DeSart for doing everything from day one--- helping invent OSI, being a major contributor to conversations, helping plan events, co-authoring papers, hosting a grant presentation, and being my off-list consigliere for all things OSI; and a third to Abel Packer, who also contributed in a wide variety of ways throughout the years, and constantly worked to create collaboration opportunities for OSI, especially with the research community in Brazil---relationships which continue to this day. Thank you Gentlemen.
Onward and upward---may your continuing adventures in scholarly publishing be rewarding and successful, and I hope our paths cross again in the future. It’s been the honor of a lifetime working with you these past ten years.
With best regards,
Glenn
Glenn Hampson
Executive Director
Science Communication Institute (SCI)
Program Director
Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI)
Rick Anderson
Thanks so much for organizing this group and for the yeoman’s work you’ve done in managing our conversations, meetings, and deliverables, Glenn. It’s been an honor to be involved.
Rick
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Subject: Farewell!
Hi Folks,
Long time no see! I hope everyone has been doing well.
I wanted to let you know that OSI will be officially folding its tent at the end of this year. This will mark our 10th anniversary, and from the outset, I promised everyone this would be a 10-year-long effort. Here’s what comes next:
1. I’ll keep the OSI listserv in place for at least one more year to make sure our former conversations are still accessible, but at some point in the near future I’ll try to download and archive these records and then delete the list.
2. All our reports, infographics, conference records, presentations and other content are archived on the SCI website at https://sci.institute/osi. The VORs of our policy papers are also archived on the Mason Journals website (formerly Mason University Press).
3. Building on the lessons learned in OSI, SCI will continue to engage in open science issues as these develop over the coming years. Please reach out if there’s anything I can do to help you with your work.
4. SCI has started applying the lessons learned from OSI---both the operational ones and also what we learned about open science---to challenges outside the open scholarship bubble, specifically the climate crisis. Our new global group of climate leaders and experts is similar in size and diversity to OSI, but rather than debating what open means, we’re applying the key tools and philosophies of openness (beginning with networking, sharing, and cross-stakeholder collaboration) to a grand challenge and seeing where this leads (and if we need to draw in more open tools and methods over time like licensing and data warehouses, we know who to call 😊). This is the approach to open recommended in our policy paper #4---our open solutions paper: Do something with open. Fingers crossed. You can read more about this work at https://cdranet.org. And finally,
5. If you’ve been relying on this listserv for scholarly communication debate (which I’m sure hasn’t been the case of late, but just in case), make sure to join Rick Anderson’s Open Café at openc...@listserv.byu.edu (if you haven’t already), plus read the Scholarly Kitchen, Clark & Esposito’s monthly newsletter, and James Butcher’s Jounalology newsletter. For starters anyway 😊
Otherwise, I think that’s a wrap, right? I’ve been worried this past year about how to finally summarize your work in OSI. Then again, I think what you’ve produced speaks for itself as is still as current and relevant as the day it was published---no summary needed. You invested a lot, and accomplished a lot.
It’s been a fascinating journey as well. By the time our conversations started picking up steam in 2016, the scholarly publishing community had already been debating these issues for a dozen years. This group was able to put forward so many so thoughtful ideas and perspectives that were incredibly well-informed (thanks to your constant engagement) and years ahead of their time. Did this conversation help change the tenor of the global debate? Maybe in some small way---it probably didn’t inflame the debate anyway. In the end, it’s encouraging to know that our final 2023 policy recommendation to learn from what works and doesn’t work in this space (our evidence-based open solutions approach from policy paper #6) may be starting to gain currency.
To our key conversationalists over the years---Rick Anderson, Joe Esposito, Lisa Hinchliffe, Mel DeSart, Susan Fitzpatrick, Danny Kingsley, Caroline Wagner, David Wojick, Margaret Winker, Richard Poynder, Jack Schultz, Jon Tennant, Toby Green, Roger Schoenfeld, Anthony Watkinson, and so many others--- thank you for all your time, energy, engagement and good will. To our policy report co-authors (Lynn Kamerlin, Mel DeSart, Lisa Hinchliffe, Jason Steinhauer, Hillary Hanahoe, Chris Graf, Elizabeth Gadd, Micah Vandergrift, Chris Erdmann, Rob Johnson), numerous workgroup paper and other authors, conference speakers, and sponsors, thank you all as well. Most of all, thank you to those who served on our steering committee and otherwise helped us navigate this terrain---Rick Anderson, Scott Plutchak, Joann Delenick, Mel DeSart, John Warren, Joyce Ogburn, Eric Olson, Claudia Holland, Chris Erdmann, Nina Collins, Patrick Herron, Kim Barrett, Richard Gedye, Rob Johnson, Simon Linacre, Bhanu Neupane, Abel Packer, Vicky Williams, Nancy Davenport, Wim van der Stelt and others---plus our summit group delegates, conference helpers, colleagues who invited OSI to present at events or sit for interviews, and so much more. It’s a long list! I’m sorry if I’ve forgotten to mention anyone. And finally, three special shout outs: One to Eric Olson, who joined SCI as a volunteer long ago and was responsible for getting us plugged into George Mason University (which made our first conference possible), and who also served tirelessly as a steering committee member and conference volunteer; another to Mel DeSart for doing everything from day one--- helping invent OSI, being a major contributor to conversations, helping plan events, co-authoring papers, hosting a grant presentation, and being my off-list consigliere for all things OSI; and a third to Abel Packer, who also contributed in a wide variety of ways throughout the years, and constantly worked to create collaboration opportunities for OSI, especially with the research community in Brazil---relationships which continue to this day. Thank you Gentlemen.
Onward and upward---may your continuing adventures in scholarly publishing be rewarding and successful, and I hope our paths cross again in the future. It’s been the honor of a lifetime working with you these past ten years.
With best regards,
Glenn
Glenn Hampson
Executive Director
Science Communication Institute (SCI)
Program Director
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Tony Roche
Hi Glenn,
Huge appreciation and kudos to you for the tenacity and resilience you exercised across ten years, convening a community and balancing so many polarised perspectives. Whilst many of us have observed rather than actively participated, insights and value have been created.
Very best wishes for your next challenge and I hope we can keep in touch.
Kind regards,
Tony
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Daisy Selematsela
Thank you Glenn for steering the OSI ship for a decade and collating the Archives.
All the best in the future endeavors ,
Take care from South Africa 🇿🇦
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Mel DeSart
Thanks for the kind words, Glenn. I think you probably overstated my contributions a bit, but I very much appreciate the acknowledgement and was always happy to be there to help out on OSI when and where needed. I am proud to have had the opportunity to be involved in OSI over the last 10 years, of the conversations we have had, and of the many outputs that this group has generated. I think we’ve left the scholcomm landscape in at least a little better shape than how we found it 10 years ago. And that’s a good thing.
But I also think major kudos need to go the other direction. While many of us contributed to OSI in various ways over the years, the original idea came from YOU. OSI would never have existed if you hadn’t had this idea that you planted and nurtured. Lots of other folks helped care for OSI as it grew and developed, but you planted the seed that led to all the rest and spent countless hours making it bloom. I hope you are justifiably proud of what it grew into.
Mel
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I echo Simon's sentiment, thanks for everything Glenn!
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Glenn Hampson
Thanks Mel. Here’s the deal, though: (1) A conversation without conversation isn’t much of a conversation (sorry---can that be said more elegantly?). You guys created this by being involved, sharing, and staying engaged. I really can’t emphasize this enough because it’s so very true and powerful: The scholcomm community is blessed with many people who want to make the world a better place and are willing to do something about it; and (2) So, the origin story is a kinda complicated, but I organized the original conversation in the Fall of 2014 (called the Open Science initiative Working Group), which many of you were in. In December, the working group for this original OSI (Rick, Joyce, William Gunn, Jean Claude, et al) started discussing ideas about how to move forward---like having rotating meetings in different locations around the world sponsored by different entities, etc. (I think Joyce started that train of thought). Bhanu stepped up around April of 2015 and said he (UNESCO) would fund work for 10 years of an open “scholarship” initiative (expanding our remit beyond just science), and around the same time, Eric made a Springtime miracle by getting GMU involved as host (and then a group of us met in DC with the GMU team to go over the strategy for how to build/host this). The rest was all downhill---i.e., reaching out to the community to involve you in this effort, planning our first meeting, etc.
So yeah---it’s kind of exhausting to look through 10 years of email records on this, but OSI was definitely the work of many committed individuals over a long period time. I proud to have helped, and hope the effort made a difference.
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Gluck, Michelle
Long-time lurker here . . . thanks, Glenn, for the care and feeding of an important conversation. I have learned a lot from OSI.
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Hi Glenn,
Is it possible to put some figures on the total amount of money that was spent on the OSI initiative by the various parties involved?
Best wishes,
Richard Poynder
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Glenn Hampson
Hi Richard!
Not just some figures, but yearly totals by sponsor, plus a breakdown by stakeholder category. The details are on the SCI website at OSI Sponsors & Funding | The Science Communication Institute. The total spend on OSI has been $400,695 total over 10 years, of which around 75% went toward conference expenses (lodging, catering, travel scholarships, etc.), and the largest share (28%) came from publishers, followed by foundations at 25% and UNESCO at 23 percent.
And Richard, I’ll raise this accountability by 10 years of transparency. Our last six years of IRS 990 forms are posted here (About SCI | The Science Communication Institute), and earlier filings are archived on Guidestar (SCIENCE COMMUNICATION INSTITUTE - GuideStar Profile), where we have earned a platinum rating. Demand nothing less from the charities you contribute to this holiday season (or the scholcomm causes you support)! (Hint: Here’s our year-end fundraising campaign) 😊
Cheers,
Glenn
Biagioli, Mario
Hi Glenn & Gang,
I still am a bit of a newby to OSI and thus do not have the long-term perspective that many others have developed over the years. But that perhaps gives me a bit of objectivity-supporting distance. From that point of view, following and occasionally contributing to the conversation has been a true treat. The amount of knowledge housed and shared by this community is impressive, but even more important for me has been to witness the care for scholarly communication (and a commitment to solve problems that all OSIers have been able to share, despite the important ideological differences that come with the territory (differences that, most likely, will continue to frame future discussions).
I appreciate having been invited to join in and wish everybody a happier new year and ongoing good scholarship about academic publishing. I do not have a good example contradicting the dictum that “all good (and bad) things have to come to an end, but OSI has had an impressive run. Thank you all for making that possible.
All the best,
Mario