Open infrastructures
Open infrastructures are systems and services used to provide open access to research results, research data and research methods. Here you can read about open infrastructures and see which initiatives KIB financially supports.
What are open infrastructures?
To enable researchers and organisations to practice open science, appropriate and easy-to-use infrastructures are needed. These systems and services make research results available to everyone, facilitating collaboration and utilisation in both science and society. In particular, the use of established standards and persistent identifiers is essential to link different research products such as research data, publications and methods and to ensure long-term accessibility.
Open infrastructures are usually supported by a combination of membership fees and/or grant funding. They are often run by public research organisations or as non-profit initiatives.
KIB's definition of open infrastructures:
‘Openly available technical systems, services and protocols that enable the collection, preservation, structuring, access and visibility, sharing and evaluation of research results along with associated code, software and metadata in a systematic and standardised way.’
The definition is based on The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) and The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) definitions.
Why does KIB support open infrastructures?
In the National guidelines for open science, the area of Infrastructures that support open science (in Swedish only) is one of six areas considered particularly important to advance in Sweden. One of the goals is that international services and infrastructures that support open science are funded nationally in a coordinated way.
Via the national BIBSAM consortium, KIB supports a few different open infrastructures. KIB has also opted to support several others beyond this, and we hope to see greater national coordination of open infrastructure support in the future. KIB primarily supports open infrastructures that are used and create benefits in KIB's and KI's activities.
Open infrastructures that KIB supports
Below is a list of the open infrastructures that KIB currently provides financial support for. The list will be updated on an ongoing basis.
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