OSI2017 Summary report

The Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) is the world’s only global, multi-stakeholder effort to improve the flow of information within science and between science, policymakers, funders and the public. This effort, which is nearing its third full year of operation, is the result of a partnership between the National Science Communication Institute (NSCI) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) which started in 2016. There is no other initiative like this, focusing on improving the entire landscape of research communication (from peer review to open access to publish or perish pressures in academia) by working together instead of separately through dozens of individual and often conflicting efforts. The report on the second annual conference of the global Open Scholarlship Initiative has just been released.