CONGRATULATIONS Alma, to you and your colleagues! Wonderful news. Arun can
start using this to get his lot moving, for eg - have a great launch day!
Barbara (and I am sure all EPT-ers!)
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From: "Bernard Rentier" <brentier_at_ULG.AC.BE>
To: <AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:24 PM
Subject: Launch of EOS
After a missed launch a few weeks ago, an organisation that will be of
interest to all rectors and vice-rectors-for-research is now ready to take
off.
Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) LAUNCHES NEW ORGANISATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL
DIRECTORS WORLDWIDE
Liege, Belgium
23 September 2009
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ENABLING OPEN SCHOLARSHIP (EOS), a new organisation for senior management in
universities and research institutions, has been launched today.
The context in which EOS has been established is that of increasing interest
from governments, funders and the research community itself in opening up
the way research is carried out and communicated. This interest is
complemented by new research practices and processes that can work
effectively only
in an open, collaborative environment.
As we rapidly approach 100 formal, mandatory, policies on Open Access from
universities, research institutes and research funders a group of senior
directors of universities and research institutes have come together to
launch a new forum for the promotion of the principles and practices of open
scholarship.
The aim of Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) is to further the opening up of
scholarship and research that we are now seeing as a natural part of 'big
science' and through the growing interest from the research community in
open access, open education, open science and open innovation. These, and
other, 'open' approaches to scholarship are changing the way research and
learning are done and will be performed in the future.
Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) provides the higher education and research
sectors around the world with information on developments and with
advice and guidance on implementing policies and processes that encourage
the opening up of scholarship. It also provides a forum for discussion and
debate amongst its members and will be taking that discussion into the wider
community.
EOS membership is for senior institutional managers who have an interest
in - and wish to help develop thinking on - strategies for promoting open
scholarship to the academy as a whole and to society at large.
The EOS website is a resource open to all. It provides background
information, data and guidance material on open scholarship-related issues.
In a
limited access area, members can find announcements, news and discussions.
EOS offers an outreach service to universities and research institutes -
whether members or not - that need help, advice, guidance or information on
open scholarship issues. We do this through our website and also by
providing information on an individual basis to institutions that need it.
The EOS board is composed of people who have personally designed or
instigated the kinds of changes in their own institutions that herald the
benefits
of the open scholarly communication system of the future. Now this expertise
is available for others to tap into.
The current EOS board comprises:
. Bernard RENTIER (Chairman), Rector of the University of Liege, Belgium
. Tom COCHRANE, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane, Australia
. William DAR, Director General of the International Crops Research
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India
. Stevan HARNAD, Canada Research Chair, Université du Québec à Montréal
(UQAM), Montreal, Quebec
. Keith JEFFERY, Director of IT and International Strategy at the Science &
Technology Facilities Council, Swindon, UK
. Sijbolt NOORDA, President of VSNU, the Association of Dutch Research
Universities
. Stuart SHIEBER, James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of
Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at
Harvard University and Director of Harvard's Office of Scholarly
Communication
. Ian SIMPSON, Deputy Principal for Research and Knowledge Transfer, and
Professor of Environmental Science, University of Stirling, UK
. Peter SUBER, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University,
Cambridge, USA
. John WILLINSKY, Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford
University and director of the Public Knowledge Project at the University of
British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, USA
. Alma SWAN (Convenor/Coordinateur), Director of Key Perspectives Ltd,
Truro, UK
"The world of research is changing and universities and other research-based
institutions must drive the change, not sit back and let it happen. Having
embarked upon implementing changes in thinking and practice at my own
university, I want to encourage others in my position to join the discussion
and help lead the way to a better future," said Professor Bernard Rentier.
"We will be reaching out to universities and research institutes across the
world
to invite them to play an active role in building better systems of
scholarship for the future. EOS will provide the forum and the voice for the
research
community on open scholarship issues and represents a very valuable resource
for those who want to join in this endeavour".
"The benefits of open access and open scholarship have been clearly
demonstrated for individuals, institutions and the public," said Professor
Keith Jeffery. "EOS will be there to provide information and guidance from
those who have already had experience of making the changes needed."
Dr William Dar said, "Open scholarship benefits the whole world's science,
not just that of the western world. It enables the free flow of research
information between north and south, east and west, helping research to
progress much more effectively. EOS will be very valuable in advancing this
process and improving the way science is carried out across the globe".
For more information visit the Enabling Open Scholarship website at:
www.openscholarship.org
or contact the convenor:
Dr Alma Swan
+44 1392 879702
info_at_openscholarship.org
Received on Wed Sep 23 2009 - 09:52:48 BST