FORCE2023: Presentations 4
This session was part of FORCE2023. Learn more: https://force11.org/fsci/2023/
Moderator: Mona Ramonetti, Stony Brook University
The COAR Notify Initiative: Transforming Scholarly Communication One Preprint/Peer Review Link at a Time
Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory
The COAR Notify Initiative, with significant funding support from Arcadia, is developing and accelerating community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralized approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external services. The initiative is developing the COAR Notify Protocol to help to establish links across infrastructures by sending and receiving Linked Data Notifications. While there are numerous ways to employ this functionality, the initial focus is on connecting articles and other types of content in a repository with peer review and overlay publishing services. This will enable the linking of local infrastructures into a distributed, global ecosystem, and introduce a novel approach to interoperability across repositories and peer review services, going far beyond the current practice of metadata harvesting. It will facilitate the development of a highly distributed (and therefore more sustainable, diverse, and inclusive) system. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of the project and introduce the use cases of our first phase implementation partners including HAL, Peer Community In, Zenodo, Humanities Commons, and PREreview.
Re-engineering the Global Scholarly Communication System: A Triad Perspective
Pius Gamette, University of Cape Coast
This presentation focuses on the need for the global scholarly communication community to reconsider issues of equity, diversity and inclusion, which has been an albatross in the operations of the community. There is ample evidence of how minority groups across the world are not given the platform to engage in scholarly works either through authorship, dissemination or usage. The global scholarly community therefore needs to rethink and initiate reconstructive measures that can cater for the varied biases that have taken center stage within the current global scholarly communication system.