SCOSS Newsletter: Board, Funding & Shared Learning
🌍 New Board members
💶 €7.8M+ pledged
🤝 Renewed consortium support
🧠 SCOSS Family exchange on funding, AI & infrastructure
📚 Library consortia funding models
❓ €6M vs €100M OA question
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The €6M vs €100M gap isn’t just a funding story.
It’s a priorities story.
Open infrastructure powers Diamond OA for everyone.
Temporary access keeps research available for some.
That’s a choice worth making intentionally.
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What if the global backbone of Diamond OA cost less than your country's journal access bill? For many, it does. €6M runs 12 infras, worldwide annually. 1 country can spend €100M+ on in-country access only. Invest in shared infrastructure, not temporary access 🔗 scoss.org/the-6-vs-100...
Diamond OA doesn't run on goodwill alone. It runs on infrastructure.
12 SCOSS-endorsed are part of the operational backbone that allows Diamond OA to function at scale. Diamond OA. Free for authors. Free for readers. Not free to run. scoss.org/the-6-vs-100...
🔵Live from our workshop
Rosalie Lack from @scossfunding.bsky.social listing the benefits of #OpenInfrastructure
How are library consortia helping libraries support trusted open infrastructure? Hear from CSAL, Jisc, @wearelyrasis.bsky.social & Sikt on funding models, decision-making, strategy & lessons learned. Live Q&A.
🗓️ 13 May
⏰ 10 EDT | 14 UTC | 16 CEST
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📣 How are library consortia funding open science infrastructure?
At a recent SCOSS webinar, @wearelyrasis.bsky.social, Jisc, Sikt, and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries shared lessons on supporting shared scholarly infrastructure.
Summary, slides, & recording: scoss.org/what-it-take...
How do library consortia turn commitment into real support for open infrastructure? Hear directly from those doing the work.
Join CSAL, Jisc, @wearelyrasis.bsky.social , and Sikt on May 13
⏰ 16:00 CEST | 14:00 UTC | 10:00 EDT
🕒 1h 15m, with Q&A
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🇨🇭 Swiss academic libraries do it again! CSAL members pledged €120,750 to SCOSS-endorsed [email protected],@researchorgs.bsky.social & #LAReferencia Consistent, collective investment in open science 🙌 🔗 scoss.org/switzerland-...
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Swiss academic libraries, members of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL), continue to be among the most consistent and reliable supporters of open science infrastructure. Once again,…
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