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Correa, Andreiwid. "A Collaborative Approach to Support Document Structuring Process in the Context of Open Government Data." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Collaborative; HTML; Open Data; PDF; Software Archi-tecture; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences The online availability of public data using unstructured documents and non-open file formats is still found in ma-ny government agencies what hampers so-ciety to consume data, as unlocking da-ta from them is not a trivial task di-rected to everyone. This in progress work aims at expanding a previous pro-posal by elaborating an important as-pect of a conceptual software architec-ture which is the collaborative ap-proach in the context of open govern-ment data. The contribution of this work is shown in the form of software requirements that make it possible for users in the open data community be in-volved with the entire data structuring process while government agencies pre-pare themselves to publish open data by default.
Angelova, Milena, Vishnu Devagiri, Veselka Boeva, Peter Linde, and Niklas Lavesson. "An Expertise Recommender System Based on Data from an Institutional Repository (DiVA)." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Data Mining; DiVA; expertise retrieval; Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences; Knowledge Management; Natural Language Processing

Finding experts in academics is an important practical problem, e.g. recruiting reviewers for reviewing conference, journal or project submissions, partner matching for research proposals, finding relevant M. Sc. or Ph. D. supervisors etc. In this work, we discuss an expertise recommender system that is built on data extracted from the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) instance of the institutional repository system DiVA. The developed prototype system is evaluated and validated on information extracted from the BTH DiVA installation, concerning thesis supervision of researchers affiliated with BTH. The extracted DiVA classification terms are used to build an ontology that conceptualizes the thesis domain supported by the university. The supervisor profiles of the tutors affiliated with the BTH are constructed based on the extracted DiVA data. These profiles can further be used to identify and recommend relevant subject thesis supervisors.
Pokorny, Jan. "Automatic Subject Indexing and Classification Using Text Recognition and Computer-Based Analysis of Tables of Contents." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. computer-generated keywords; computer-generated subject headings; library automatization; machine learning system; Text Mining; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences This paper will describe a method for machine-based creation of high quality subject indexing and classification for both electronic and print documents using tables of contents (ToCs). The technology described here is primarily focused on electronic and print documents for which, because of technical or licensing reasons, it is not possible to index full text. However, the technology would also be useful for full text documents, because it could significantly enhance the accuracy and relevance of subject description by analyzing the structure of ToCs.
Freire, Nuno, Pável Calado, and Bruno Martins. "Availability of Cultural Heritage Structured Metadata in the World Wide Web." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Cultural Heritage; linked data; Metadata; search engines; World Wide Web; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences
Albagli, Sarita, Anne Clinio, Henrique Parra, and Felipe Fonseca. "Beyond the Dichotomy between Natural and Knowledge Commons: Reflections on the IAD Framework from the Ubatuba Open Science Project." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Brazil; Commons; Institutional Analysis and Development; Open Science; Ubatuba; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences
Arias, Javier. "Collecting Inclusive Usage Metrics for Open Access Publications: the HIRMEOS Project." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Digital Monographs; Metrics; Open Access; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences Open Access has matured for journals, but its uptake in the book market is still delayed, despite the fact that books continue to be the leading publishing format for social sciences and humanities. The 30-months EU-funded project HIRMEOS (High Integration of Research Monographs in the European Open Science infrastructure) tackles the main obstacles of the full integration of five important digital platforms supporting open access monographs. The content of participating platforms will be enriched with tools that enable identification, authentication and interoperability (via DOI, ORCID, Fundref), and tools that enrich information and entity extraction (INRIA (N)ERD), the ability to annotate monographs (Hypothes.is), and gather usage and alternative metric data. This paper focuses on the development and implementation of Open Source Metrics Services that enable the collection of OA Metrics and Altmetrics from third-party platforms, and how the architecture of these tools will allow implementation in any external platform, particularly in start-up Open Access publishers.
Smith, Ina, and Susan Veldsman. "Data Driving Sustainability—the African Open Science Platform Project." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. African Open Science Platform; Open Data; Open Science; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences Exploitation of the digital revolution offers great potential for less affluent and least economically developed countries (LEDCs) and for the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. However, LEDCs typically have poorly resourced national research systems. If they cannot participate in research based on big and open data, the gap could grow exponentially in coming years. They will be unable to collect, store and share data, unable to participate in the global research enterprise, unable to contribute as full partners to global efforts on climate change, health care, and resource protection, and unable to fully benefit from such efforts, where global solutions will only be achieved if there is global participation. Thus, both emerging and developed countries have a clear and direct interest in helping to fully mobilize LEDC science potential and thereby to contribute to achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The initiative described here (African Open Science Platform or AOSP) is directed towards minimising a divide between emerging and developed countries in what is arguably the most important current opportunity to enhance the power and efficiency of the scientific enterprise and its contribution to societal benefit.
Nordhoff, Sebastian, and Andreas Pittrich. "DocLoop-OER: Channelling Reader Feedback into Open Educational Resources." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Annotation; Collaboration; Empowerment; issue tracker; Open Educational Resources; versioning; Work flow; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences docLoop-OER is a web platform where readers can give feedback on stretches of a (text)book. This feedback is channelled into an issue tracker.
Albornoz, Denisse, Maggie Huang, Issra Martin, Maria Mateus, Aicha Touré, and Leslie Chan. "Framing Power: Tracing Key Discourses in Open Science Policies." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. epistemic governance; framing theory; Open Science; policy analysis; research infrastructure; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences Given that “Open Science” is becoming a popular policy object around the world, this study sought to identify key narratives about Open Science in policy, and critically examine the extent to which they are sustaining or strengthening multi-layered domination and inequality schemes that pre-exist in scientific knowledge production. To do so, we conducted a content analysis of Open Science policies stemming from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia and Africa to understand which narratives about Open Science policies are produced, reproduced and by whom; and in turn, whose interests may be neglected in this process. We found that Open Science policies, mostly stemming from Europe, frame “openness” as a vehicle to promote technological change as part of an inevitable and necessary cultural shift to modernity in scientific production. The global reach of these narratives, and the technologies, standards and models these narratives sustain, are dictating modes of working and collaborating among those who can access them, and creating new categories of exclusion that invalidate knowledge that cannot meet this criteria, putting historically marginalized researchers and publics at further disadvantage.
Nordhoff, Sebastian, and Felix Kopecky. "Full Disclosure: Open Business Data and the Publisher's Cookbook." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Business Model; monographs; Open Access; Open Data; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences This short paper presents the three main outcomes of the OpenAire project “Full disclosure: replicable strategies for book publications supplemented with empirical data”: a fully specified bu-siness model; accountacy data; and a “cookbook” containing recipes how to set up a resilient community-based book publisher. The provision of these items available for free reuse will allow other publishing projects to unders-tand, adapt, and modify the community-based model of Language Science Press.
Wells, Matthew. "Game not Over: End-User Programming and Game System Modding as Models for Extending Community Engagement." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Games; modding; mods; Programming; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences In certain digital gaming subcultures, specific games are extended and enhanced by players who create “mods”, or modifications, that add new artwork, new scenarios, and even new rules. “Modders” meet in online communities that foster engagement through the discussion and self-publication of mods, and these can keep interest in a given game going years after it is released. Most importantly, modding allows players to challenge and subvert dominant discourses, and to foster cultures of inclusivity. These DIY efforts could be adapted by academic publishers, particularly those focused on design research, to encourage sustained engagement with scholarly materials. This article discusses the history of modding, provides examples, and sketches one online modding community in detail. It then makes the argument that modding is a form of end-user engagement of the sort advocated by scholars such as Gerald Fischer, and compares modding to other online academic publishing efforts, such as webtexts.
Parinov, Sergey, and Victoria Antonova. "Global Scholarly Collaboration: from Traditional Citation Practice to Direct Communication." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Citations as interactive elements; Collaboration; cooperation; Scholarly Communication; shared mental models; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences The development of recent research information systems allows a transformation of citations in the full text of research papers into interactive elements. Such interactivity in some cases works as an instrument of direct scholarly communications between citing and cited authors. We discuss this challenge for research e-infrastructure development including opportunities for improvements in research cooperation and in collaboration mechanisms for the global research community.
Fargier, Nathalie. "In Search of a Sustainable Model for Digital Heritage Repositories: A Case Study." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. data repositories; digitized documentary heritage; Open Access; Open Data; Practitioner’s paper; sustainability; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences A wide range of initiatives for developing research and data infrastructures have been funded in recent years. There is a growing concern amongst the academic community to maintain the resources invested beyond the period of the original research funding. If technical progress has been made to preserve the data themselves, few thinking and operational solutions exist for the institutions that create, disseminate, curate and preserve the data. How to ensure their existence over the medium or the long-term? This paper is a case study: it addresses the sustainability issues faced by Persée, a French platform dedicated to digitized documentary heritage that was launched in 2003. Through this example, the aim is to present, in practical terms, how an organization has to adapt and to change to sustain over time. Persée tested and combined various mechanisms (technical actions, users’ involvement, organizational evolution, marketing, funding models) with reciprocal influence, to achieve sustainability. Rather than a steady state, ensuring the long term existence of a data infrastructure is an ongoing and resource intensive process.
Posada, Alejandro, and George Chen. "Inequality in Knowledge Production: The Integration of Academic Infrastructure by Big Publishers." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. concentration; Inequality; knowledge production; rent-seeking; scholarly infrastructure; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences This paper attempts to illustrate the implications of a simultaneous redirection of the big publishers’ business strategy towards open access business models and the acquisition of scholarly infrastructure utilizing the conceptual framework of rent-seeking theory. To document such a transformation, we utilized financial databases to analyze the mergers and acquisitions of the top publicly traded academic publishers. We then performed a service analysis to situate the acquisitions of publishers within the knowledge and education life-cycles, illustrating what we term to be their vertical integration within their respective expansion target life-cycles. Implications of higher education institutions’ increased dependency towards the companies and increased influence by the companies on the institution and individual researcher were noted from the vertical integration of products. Said vertical integration is analyzed via a rent theory framework and described to be a form of rent-seeking complementary to the redirection of business strategies to open access. Finally, the vertical integration is noted to generate exclusionary effects upon researchers/institutions in the global south
Goudarzi, Saman, and Tasneem Mewa. "Mapping Academic Publishing: Locating Enclaves of Development Knowledge." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Academic Publishing Representation; Data Visualization; Geography; International Development; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences With the intention of highlighting en-claves [in this context, the term en-clave simply refers to exclusive con-centrations of academic development knowledge; ultimately leading to narrow frames for development practice and po-licy] in academic knowledge production, this poster portrays geographic varia-tions in the institutions represented by articles published in the Journal of Peasant Studies and Third World Quar-terly from 2005-2015 via proportional symbol maps. Empirical data was col-lected via the Scopus database. Visua-lizing empirical bibliographic data shows higher percentages of academic publications from institutions located in the Global North. While the chain of academic publication and dissemination is extensive, this map focuses solely on the quantity of academic articles published. These representational ine-qualities can be paralleled in academia and other forms of exchange and work towards deconstructing perpetual struc-tural inequalities.
Togia, Aspasia, Eleftheria Koseoglou, Sofia Zapounidou, and Nikolaos Tsigilis. "Open Access Infrastructure in Greece: Current Status, Challenges and Perspectives." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Greece; Institutional Repositories; Open Access; Open Access Journals; Open Access Policy; Scholarly Communication; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences Open access (OA) is a global movement to make research results widely available by removing price and permission barriers. OA infrastructure is necessary for implementing open access and open science in any country. The aim of the present paper is twofold: (i) to give a description of the Greek OA infrastructure with emphasis on academic repositories and OA journals, and (ii) to examined the OA availability of publications authored by Greek researchers and published in international journals. Results indicated that Open access infrastructures in Greece have been steadily improving over the past years, with 28 out of 36 HEIs running their own IR and 116 OA journals being published. The OA availability of the literature produced by Greek researchers is similar to that found in other studies and falls within the range that has been reported for European countries. Although numbers seem rather satisfactory, there are a number of challenges that have to be addressed at both the infrastructural and the policy level, the most important being the implementation of national open policies and funders mandates.
Appel, Andre, Ivonne Lujano, and Sarita Albagli. "Open Science Practices Adopted by Latin American & Caribbean Open Access Journals." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); Latin America and the Caribbean; Open Access; Open Access Journals; Open Science; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences The objective of this study is to investigate how Open Science (OS) values and practices have influenced open access (OA) journals publishers in Latin American and the Caribbean (LA&C) countries. Our key research question is: to what extent are these practices being adopted by LA&C journals? In order to address this question, we conducted a survey with a sample of LA&C journals listed on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) database. The results reveal that many journals are somewhat aware of or informed about most of open science practices being discussed, but just some of them have already successfully adopted those practices.
Franck, Gwen. "OpenAIRE FP7 Post-Grant Pilot: A Summary of the Main Results." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Article Processing Charges (APC); FP7 post-grant Open Access pilot; OpenAIRE; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences This short article aims at presenting the main outcomes of the OpenAIRE FP7 post-grant pilot, an initiative from the European Commission to cover publication costs after the end of the projects.
Pennefather, Peter, West Suhanic, Fatima Lakha, and Deborah Fels. "Publishing Authentic, Private, Personal Data About Service Quality of Healthcare for Pain." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. distributed ledgers; health data publication; private health data; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences An inclusive systemic design is specified for publishing data derived from personal private health records, owned and curated by patients. The design is specified with an example of a digital scrapbook of private personal records of care for medically significant pain. This scrapbook is designed to aggregate private records of patient pain experiences and of the care and accommodations they access. The design also specifies how to store, access and analyze those private records through distributed ledgers and how qualitative and quantitative data derived from that private data can be published as a common pool resource with polycentric governance.
Geltner, Guy, and John Willinsky. "ScholarlyHub: A Progress Report at Six Months." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. academic social networks; inclusivity; intreoperability; Open Access; Scholarly Communications; scholarly communities of practice; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences ScholarlyHub (SH) was launched in November 2017 as a portal to fund and create a social network for scholarship-using individuals and communities that is supported and directed from the bottom up and not beholden to venture capitalists on the one hand and governments on the other. As an inclusive, member-run portal, it hopes to connect rather than replace numerous non-profit and open-source OA initiatives, which tend to lack a visible and attractive front end, and which may not currently be interoperable. If its goals can be realized, SH may offer one solution to the full workflow platforms that for-profit conglomerates are on the cusp of achieving. This practitioner’s paper presents the key characteristics of SH and offers an early progress report.
Hole, Brian, Francesco De Virgilio, and Chealsye Bowley. "Shared Infrastructure for Next-Generation Books: HIRMEOS." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. altmetrics; Annotation; Metrics; monographs; open source software; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences This paper presents an introduction and status report on work being done to provide shared infrastructure for open access book publishers under the HIRMEOS (High Integration of Research Monographs in the European Open Science infrastructure) project. It focuses specifically on the work being done to provide shared altmetrics services, including reporting on annotation activity.
Maistrovskaya, Mariya, and Judy Hum-Delaney. "Simplifying OA Policy Compliance for Authors Through a Publisher- Repository Partnership." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. accepted manuscript; automated deposit; funder mandate; Institutional Repository; Open Access; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences In April of 2015, Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) in partnership with the University of Toronto Libraries launched an automated manuscript deposit service. Upon author’s opt-in, an automated workflow transfers their accepted manuscript from the publisher system into the University of Toronto research repository, TSpace, where it is made openly available with a reference to the final version on the journal website. This free service is available to authors publishing their work in CSP’s NRC Research Press journals and is of particular interest to grant recipients looking to comply with the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications that came into effect in 2015. This paper provides an overview of the partnership and the workflow that makes over 1,200 manuscripts openly available annually. It also shares the script that can be adopted by other libraries and publishers looking to provide automated deposit service to authors for the purpose of funder mandate compliance, green OA, or preservation.
Rivera-López, Bárbara, and Manuel Luci. "Spatial Reference Patterns as a Point of Hegemonic Struggle: A Case Study of Biotechnology Journals in Latin America." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. English as a lingua franca; geopolitics of knowledge; Latin America; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences Anglophone hegemony in knowledge production processes has been long acknowledged. Academic capitalism (Slaughter and Leslie, 2004) and its neoliberal rationalities, the dominant narratives within the colonial ventures, and a dominant and unreflective use of English in the production of textual knowledge have produced uneven structures in the academic publishing space, a homogenization of the concept of ‘international’ (Paasi 2005, 2015; Tietze and Dick, 2013; Péloquin, 2017). The contribution of the present research to this debate is the identification of points of hegemonic disruption in Latin America. We performed a case study on six articles written in Spanish and Portuguese of two Latin American Biotechnology journals with the purpose of identifying their spatial reference pattern. Findings show a high use of references in Spanish and Portuguese (54,31% and 36.49%, respectively. We interpret complex linguistic referencing patterns - this is citing in languages other than English - as an environment that opens meanings and enriches discussion. Moreover, we conceive Latin America as a space of hegemonic struggle against English homogenization in Science, and the SciELO platform as the infrastructure with the potential to (hopefully) transform the current academic status quo.
Rittman, Martyn. "Sustainability in Publishing: An Open Access Publisher’s View." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Open Access; Scholarly Publishing; sustainability; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences Sustainability is an essential part of the work of publishers. Here, the view of an open access publisher, MDPI, is presented with regards to sustainability within publishing. MDPI’s understanding of sustainability is given and some of the concrete actions it leads to. These include supporting umbrella initiatives, exploring alternative business and editorial models, elements of open science, and ensuring the long-term sustainability of published content. Our aim is to demonstrate actions that could be taken by other publishers and to invite dialog with the broader research community for how a large open access publisher can contribute to a sustainable knowledge ecosystem.
Olyhoek, Tom, Barbara Porrett, and Dominic Mitchell. "The DOAJ Ambassador Programme: An Example Project for Promoting Cognitive Justice in the Global South." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Ambassadors; cognitive justice; Directory of Open Access Journals; Global South; questionable journals; questionable publishers; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences Global scientific publishing, including open access publishing, is heavily biased towards journals and authors from the Global North. This has resulted in a knowledge gap between the South and the North. It has led to a situation where scientific knowledge from the Global South is very much underrepresented in the collective scientific output worldwide: a problem which has been described as cognitive injustice. Unfortunately this situation is not helped by the fact that many questionable publishers are based in countries in the Global South. To address these issues the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) started an Ambassador programme in 2016 with the help of funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC Canada). The main objective of the programme was to increase the number of quality open access journals published, and the quality of open access publishing, in the Global South.
Becerril-García, Arianna, and Eduardo Aguado-López. "The End of a Centralized Open Access Project and the Beginning of a Community-Based Sustainable Infrastructure for Latin America: Redalyc.org after Fifteen Years The Open Access ecosystem in Latin America." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Latin America; Open Access; Redalyc; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences The Latin American region has an ecosystem where the nature of publication is conceived as the act of making public, of sharing and not as the publishing industry. International, national and institutional contexts have led to a redefinition of a project—Redalyc.org—that begun in 2003 and that has already fulfilled its original mission: give visibility to knowledge generated in Latin America and promote quality of scientific journals. Nevertheless, it is mandatory to be transformed from a Latin American platform based in Mexico into a community-based regional infrastructure that continues assessing journals quality and providing access to full-text in benefit of journals visibility and free access to knowledge. A framework that generates technology in favor of the empowerment and professionalization of journal editors, making the editorial task in open access sustainable and that allows Redalyc to sustain itself collectively. This work describes the first Redalyc's model, presents the problematic in course and the new business model Redalyc is designing and adopting to operate on.
Bouche, Thierry, Evelyne Miot, and Célia Vaudaine. "The Launch of Centre Mersenne, a Technical Infrastructure to Support the Move Towards Diamond Open Access." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Electronic Publishing; LaTeX; Open Access; Open access publishing; Open access scien-tific publishing; Open sciences; Publishing plat-form; Sci-entific publication; Scientific publishing; Scientific publishing infrastruc-ture; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences The aim of this paper is to present the Centre Mersenne for Open Scientific Publishing, a new open access scien-tific publishing infrastructure for publications written in LaTeX.The Centre Mersenne was launched in January 2018 with the first volume of the newly-created journal Algebraic Combinatorics.This non-profit initiative hosted by French public institutions was created to address a growing need within the scientific community for alternative solutions simultaneously scalable, sus-tainable, trustworthy, of high quality and at fair price.The Centre Mersenne supports publica-tions such as journals, books and pro-ceedings from any scientific disci-pline, provided they are written in La-TeX and engaged towards Diamond open access.
Alperin, Juan, John Willinsky, Brian Owen, James Macgregor, Alec Smecher, and Kevin Stranack. "The Public Knowledge Project: Reflections and Directions After Its First Two Decades." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences; Open Access; Open sources software; Scholarly Publishing

As the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) enters its third decade, it faces the responsibilities of supporting the more than 10,000 journals using its software and are dependent on PKP continuing to develop the code. In the fall of 2017, PKP, with the support of the Arnold Foundation, contracted the consulting services of BlueSky to Blueprint, with its principal Nancy Maron embarking on an exploration of PKP’s standing and prospects among a sample of those in-volved in scholarly publishing, inclu-ding current, former, and potential users of its software (Maron 2018). This paper presents BlueSky’s findings and PKP’s responses in what may serve as a lesson on the maturing of, and challenges faced by, an open source software project seeking to sustain in-creased global access to research and scholarship.
Heinemann, Elisabeth. "The Value of Network Sustainability: Why We Join Research Infrastructures." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. network sustainability; Open Access; Open Science; Scholarly Communication; social sciences and humanities; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences This paper develops the concept of network sustainability. To become and stay sustainable, distributed research infrastructures must satisfy present needs while at the same time be flexible and resilient to meet future requirements. For this it is not enough to merely build a resilient economic model and be technically viable. Research infrastructures that can understand, address and shape future needs have a sustainable community network. Clear characteristics of a research infrastructure with a sustainable network are that partners gain access to other networks and interest groups, that knowledge, information and expertise is shared freely among partners, that the infrastructure increases partners’ visibilities and vice versa, and that partners are enabled to stay current and state-of-the-art. This is shown on OPERAS (open access in the european research area through scholarly communication), a research infrastructure for open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities, and its partner the Max Weber Foundation, a German research institution.
Okune, Angela, Rebecca Hillyer, Denisse Albornoz, Alejandro Posada, and Leslie Chan. "Whose Infrastructure? Towards Inclusive and Collaborative Knowledge Infrastructures in Open Science." In Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. ELPUB. Toronto, Canada, 2018. Collaboration; inclusive knowledge infrastructures; intersectionality; Open Science; Participatory Design; research tools; [ SHS.INFO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences The current discourse around Open Science has tended to focus on the creation of new technological platforms and tools to facilitate sharing and reuse of a wide range of research outputs. There is an assumption that once these new tools are in place, researchers—and at times, members of the general public—will be able to participate in the creation of scientific knowledge in more accessible and efficient ways. While many of these new tools have indeed assisted in the ease of collaboration through online spaces and mechanisms, the narrowness of how infrastructure is imagined by open science practitioners tends to put the use of technology ahead of the issues that people are actually trying to solve and fails to acknowledge the systemic constraints that exist within and between some communities. Drawing on an analytical framework grounded in Black feminist intersectionality (Noble 2016), this paper highlights the need for more inclusive knowledge infrastructures, particularly in the context of sustainable development. Three case studies from the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet), are outlined in order to illustrate the importance of moving beyond a definition of infrastructure as merely a technical or physical entity. These cases, arising from research conducted in South Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean, demonstrate how more sustainable and nuanced forms of collaboration and participation may be enabled through broader understandings of knowledge infrastructures. This paper further argues that leveraging the feminist concept of intersectionality when conceptualizing the development of knowledge infrastructures could be one way to move from narrow assumptions about standardized knowledge “users” towards more inclusive reimaginings of how knowledges can be produced and shared via networked technologies.