Community Discussion


A history of the discussion within all parts of the open scholarly infrastructure community.

For decades, science and research infrastructure initiatives have been working together to form norms and practices to ensure long-term sustainability of critical systems on which researchers rely.

The following key documents and talks (listed chronologically) discuss or draw on the POSI principles. Please make a merge request via GitLab to list any additional relevant resources.

Year & month Title Authors
2015-February (Originally-proposed) Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructures Neylon, Bilder, Lin
2015-August What exactly is infrastructure? Seeing the leopard’s spots Neylon, Bilder, Lin
2016-January Where are the pipes? Building Foundational Infrastructures for Future Services Neylon, Bilder, Lin
2016-April A Healthy Research Ecosystem: Diversity by Design Chodacki, Cruse, Lin, Neylon
2016-July Squaring Circles: The economics and governance of scholarly infrastructures Neylon
2018-April Supporting Research Communications: A Guide Chodacki et al
2019-January Good Practice Principles for Scholarly Communication Services COAR-SPARC
2019-April EXAMPLARITY CRITERIA for funding from the National Open Science Fund through platforms, infrastructures and editorial content French National Open Science Fund
2020-October Living Our Values and Principles: Exploring Assessment Strategies for the Scholarly Communication Field Skinner and Wipperman, Educopia Institute
2021-January Why openness makes research infrastructure resilient Cousijn, Hendricks, Meadows
2021-October Now is the time to work together toward open infrastructures for scholarly metadata Hendricks et al
2021-November Beyond open: Key criteria to assess open infrastructure Invest In Open
2022-February Assessing data infrastructure: the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure Dodds
2023-July Rules vs. Principles in POSI Eve
2023-November Launching (POSI) version 1.1: Reflections from adopters Hendricks et al
2024-August The Principles of Fauxpen Scholarly Infrastructure Bilder
2024-October ORCID’s position on POSI Shillum

All POSI adopters welcome questions and suggestions about The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure. If your question is not answered in the About & FAQ page, we encourage you to ask your questions in public using our issue tracker because that allows others who are interested in POSI to comment and contribute to the conversation as well.

Submit your question and/or suggestion openly here

You can also open an issue via email by clicking on the “Email a new issue to this project” link.

If you would like to contact someone privately, please email anyone from the POSI adopters group, since there is no one organisation behind POSI. If you don’t know anyone, try emailing one of:

  • Sarah Lippincott: sarah [at] datadryad [dot] org (Dryad)
  • Matthew Buys: mattbuys [at] datacite [dot] org (DataCite)
  • Lucy Ofiesh: lofiesh [at] crossref [dot] org (Crossref)
  • John Chodacki: john [at] ROR [dot] org (ROR)

… and somebody from one of the POSI adopters will get in touch with you directly.

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