Credit: Swiss National Science Foundation Developing institutional networks to support capacity building in open science Kathleen Shearer Executive Director, COAR Confederation of Open Access Repositories Research Associate, CARL

Open Science Umbrella. Image credit: Flikr user 지우 황 CC BY 2.0

Open Science (or Open Scholarship) Why? Greater transparency Better, more efficient science New discoveries and innovation Improved impact of science beyond the academia

Open Science (or Open Scholarship) What? Open access to publications Research data management Other research outputs and practices How? Advocacy Services and infrastructure

Open Science Institutions have a critical role to play! -There is a critical role for universities (and their libraries) in supporting the development of sustainable, long term open science means

Mapping open science services Some examples: Traditional services Open science services Reference Advice about how to comply with open science policies Collection development Collecting, preserving and providing access to content – repositories and OA journals Cataloguing Metadata, data management plans Information literacy Educating researchers and students on the issues of open science

Librarians’ Competencies for E-Research and Scholarly Communication Librarians’ Competencies for Research Data Management Librarians’ Competencies for Scholarly Communication and Open Access Librarians’ Competencies for Digital Humanities https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/support-and-training/task-force-competencies/

MIT Future of Libraries Preliminary Report https://future-of-libraries.mit.edu/sites/default/files/FutureLibraries-PrelimReport-Final.pdf

A Vision for MIT Libraries We are on the cusp of a fundamental transformation of research libraries! ---- “Libraries will no longer be geared primarily to direct readers but instead to content contributors, community curators, text-mining programs, machine-learning algorithms, and visualization tools. The MIT Libraries should operate as an open digital platform, available for all manner of research and development projects emanating from within and beyond MIT.” (pg. 6)

The Inside Out Library (OCLC 2013) From Lorcan Dempsey’s slides (OCLC)

The Inside Out Library (OCLC 2013) Outside in Bought, licensed Increased consolidation Move from print to licensed Manage down print – shared print Move to user-driven models Aim: to discover Inside out Institutional assets: special collections, research and learning materials, institutional records, … Reputation management Increasingly important? Aim: to *have* discovered … to disclose Licensed content will dominate in years to come. Special collections will grow but only modestly (and only at some institutions); mostly growth in managing archival resources including institutional. Much greater investment in managing research outputs. No change in web archiving.

Research is global!

The Networked Library While part of their success will rely on relevance and usefulness for their local institutions, from a global perspective few individual libraries are important in and of themselves. However, collectively, they have the potential to offer a comprehensive view of the research of the whole world, while also enabling each scholar and institution to participate in the global network of scientific and scholarly enquiry.” https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/working-group-next-generation-repositories/

The Networked Library The full potential of digital content, stored in thousands of libraries around the world, can only reach it’s full potential once they are connected.

The Networked Library What do we need? Standardization – in formats, vocabularies, metadata, functions, policies, services, operations

How can we get there from here? Photo from Developer Tech: https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2016/jan/29/devops-bridging-gap-between-business-and-development/

Some strategies Incremental adoption of services at the institution (from ‘soft’ to ‘hard’) Organizing at the national and/or regional level Developing and nurturing communities of practice Cross-stakeholder dialogue International engagement – connecting your content to the world!

Examples: Regional repository networks OpenAIRE (Europe) and LA Referencia (Latin America)

Examples: Communities of Practice

Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, COAR kathleen.shearer@coar-repositories.org twitter: @KathleeShearer