OSI's Plan A – A common ground foundation for the global future of scholarly communication

Opening Research Together

Doable, sustainable, now.

Who.

OSI is a diverse, global coalition comprising many of the world’s most knowledgeable authorities on open access. These experts advise some of the world’s most influential institutions, and, as a group, OSI advises the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on its global open road map.

Participants

OSI participants, observers and alumni are high level leaders who come from over 250 institutions and 28 countries around the world, representing 18 different stakeholder groups in scholarly communication.

Goals

OSI is working in partnership with UNESCO to build the future of global open research on a foundation that includes and values all stakeholder perspectives, works for everyone everywhere.

Outputs

The experts in OSI author many papers every year on open research and related issues. OSI also issues reports, convenes international meetings, and looks for ways to engage and educate the open stakeholder community.

What.

In service to these institutions, and to the global research community, OSI’s Plan A will help advance the world toward greater open access. Plan A participants will:

Study

Conduct much needed studies to fill in gaps in our understanding of the open research challenge

Build

Build new and needed infrastructure tools and resources to help accelerate our progress toward open

Educate

Develop and distribute open research literacy materials for researchers and institutions

Connect

Convene and communicate with all stakeholders, especially researchers, to work toward common goals and solutions that benefit research

Collaborate

Work in partnership with UNESCO and others to help build our community’s common ground foundation for open research

Act

Lead ambitious efforts to open more climate change, health and medical research, and put open research to work

Why.

The push to make information more freely accessible online has had transformative global consequences. The phenomenon has led to incredible innovations and also unintended consequences such as crises of misinformation and challenges to traditional publishing models. For these reasons it is vital that changes to research communication are done collaboratively and with thorough consideration. OSI is committed to: gathering facts that inform reform proposals; working on reforms as a unified community; recognizing and appreciating the many different and valid interests and stakeholders; and identifying points of common interest so that we may work together toward common goals and create an open research future that is vibrant, robust and sustainable.

Support

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Chronos Hub has a mission that fully aligns with Plan A, with a focus on streamlining OA management in a joint and collaborative manner between funders, publishers, institutions and researchers.

Christian Grubak
CEO, Chronos Hub

News .

The latest news and developments from Plan A will be posted here. You can also follow OSI on Twitter at OSIUnited. Stay tuned!

Open science roadmap recommendations to UNESCO
June 1, 2020Plan A Staff
Many organizations are committed to improving the future of open science, and many ideas and policies have been put in place to try to achieve this goal. Yet no single agency...
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Making the case for common ground
April 24, 2020Plan A Staff
Full paper Summary It’s hard to envision a system more global and integrated than research. For this reason alone (and there are many others), global approaches are needed when we talk...
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Plan A launch
April 20, 2020Plan A Staff
OSI announced the launch of Plan A today, an international, multi-stakeholder effort to reform the future of scholarly communication. Plan A is the 2020-25 action plan of the Open Scholarship Initiative...
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