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US academic leaders join forces for open scholarship
Leaders from 65 US colleges and universities are joining forces to advance the principles and practices of open scholarship, in an effort to make scholarly outputs more transparent and beneficial to a broader community. The partnership aims to ensure that
as many students, faculty, practitioners, policymakers and community members as possible have access to, and a voice in, research and scholarship. The Higher Education Leadership
Initiative for Open Scholarship, known as HELIOS, is a cohort of colleges and universities formed to create collective action to advance open scholarship across their campuses. HELIOS takes place within the larger context of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science. Greg Tananbaum, secretariat of the National Academies’ Roundtable and director of Open Research Funders Group, a network of funders committed to the open sharing of research outputs, said: ‘HELIOS represents the most promising, ambitious attempt to align higher education practices with open scholarship values. Colleges and universities can make it easier and more rewarding for students, faculty and staff to engage in open scholarship activities like data sharing and self-archiving their papers. HELIOS is an
important collective step in that direction.’ HELIOS members have agreed
to commit a high-level presidential representative to work with other institutions to develop actionable incentives, resources and infrastructure that broadens access to research and scholarship. Leaders will also work with relevant units on their campuses to champion open scholarship policies and programmes and to support internal stakeholders in establishing appropriate milestones, communications channels, infrastructure, support, resources and accountability mechanisms. HELIOS will meet regularly to identify areas of shared interest and collaboration, to discuss success and challenges, and to develop guidance for other institutions. ‘We believe HELIOS will accelerate the adoption of open scholarship by engaging
senior leaders across higher education to collaborate on areas of shared interest, such as hiring, training and tenure practices,’ said Geeta Swamy, strategic lead for HELIOS and Duke University associate vice president for research and vice dean for scientific integrity. ‘Collective action and ongoing dialog can help identify best practices, as well as areas ripe for institutional cooperation.’ HELIOS is co-chaired by Arizona
State University president Michael Crow, Benedict College president Rosalyn Artis, and Johns Hopkins University president Ron Daniels. The project is supported by grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the John Templeton Foundation, Schmidt Futures, and Templeton World Charity Foundation. Members are due to meet imminently to kick off the work. Learn more at
heliosopen.org.
Canada institutions agree IOP Publishing OA agreement
IOP Publishing (IOPP) and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) have signed an unlimited open access (OA) agreement. The three-year ‘read and publish’ deal offers authors affiliated with 45 CRKN member organisations unlimited OA publishing in IOPP’s hybrid and fully OA journals. The reading component of the agreement provides ongoing access to all of IOPP’s fully owned and partner journals. The agreement is IOPP’s
first transformative agreement for North America. The
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society publisher now has transformative agreements with 242 institutions in 14 countries. Julian Wilson, sales and
marketing director at IOPP, said: ‘We see a significant increase in the number of articles published OA in other
countries throughout Europe and the Middle East, where we have similar agreements in place. We’re looking forward to expanding the reach and visibility of research in North America by making the process of publishing as simple as possible for authors.’ IOPP research shows that
OA content is downloaded 80 per cent more than paywalled content and cited 30 per cent more, demonstrating the substantial benefits to publishing OA. ‘Working on behalf of
our members, CRKN’s priorities continue to be increasing sustainable, cost neutral, open access options for researchers affiliated with CRKN member institutions at no additional cost to the author,’ said CRKN executive director, Clare Appavoo. ‘I am pleased that we
were able to achieve these goals in partnership with IOP Publishing. This agreement will increase access to the content published in IOPP journals, as well as the open access output of physicists in Canada.’
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