FAQ

How do you define open science infrastructure?

Open Science combines various movements and practices aiming to make multilingual science knowledge openly available. Open science infrastructure encompasses softwares, standards, protocols, services, platforms that allow scholarly stakeholders to practise, develop and observe open science.

Is the project focussed on open science infrastructure for publication in particular (open access)?

No, TSOSI aims to include all infrastructures that support open science. We can think of the three main scientific outputs: software, data and publication; TSOSI aims to include infrastructure that helps make these artefacts openly available.

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About us

Transparency to Sustain Open Science Infrastructure is a project funded by the French Committee for open science, that is the political body dedicated to open science within the French ministry of research & education. The project is leaded by Université Grenoble Alpes and the following infrastructure are partners: OPERAS, DOAJ, DOAB, Couperin, SciPost, PeerCommuntyIn, SCOSS, Couperin.

The very goal of the project is to contribute to the sustainability of the open science infrastructure. How? TSOSI will enhance the value of entities that has fund open science infrasutrcture. A website will be make (planned for June 2025) that will show the funding received by our partner’s infrastructure: DOAJ, DOAB, SciPost, OPERAS and PeerCommunityIn.

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