FORCE2021

When open infrastructure projects attempt to shape a sustainable model, their key stakeholders look to transparency around governance. This session will explore a variety of governance models and examine how they support sustainability, both financial and scalability, to provide projects with a better long-term footing. Speakers from a variety of regions will discuss the impact of funders and funding models, local versus global issues, communication and collaboration strategies in the day-to-day activities and the long term mission of their organizations.

In this session, panelists will highlight some of the success of the early engagement of students and early career professionals in scholarly communications. The panelists will address personal experiences and reflect on the overall needs for the next generation of scholars and scientists.

Bibliodiversity in scholarly communications has been in decline for several decades. Yet, we need a diversity in services and platforms, funding mechanisms, and evaluation measures in order to allow the scholarly communication system to accommodate the different workflows, languages, publication outputs, and research topics that support the needs and epistemic pluralism of different research communities. There are two other panels at Force11 focusing already on other systemic issues contributing to the current landscape: evaluation measures and funding mechanism. This panel will delve into the notion of a how a highly distributed and decoupled ecosystem can help scholarly communications become more inclusive. Panelists will present their ideas on the benefits of such an approach; explain how it can be implemented and scale across institutions, countries, and domains; and will present some specific examples of projects that are already under way.

This panel discussion will explore how social media and other new platforms are helping communicate science, both to researchers and to the public. We will host a panel with international experts who are pioneering the use of social media and other modes of communication beyond the traditional publication to disseminate their work and engage with broad audiences about science and the latest discoveries.The panel will consist of short presentations followed by a roundtable discussion, and Q&A with the audience.

With millions of research outputs published each year, discoverability has become a huge challenge. The on-going pandemic has made this problem even more evident. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, we have witnessed an explosion of scientific publications and data related to it, and researchers struggle to stay on top of this knowledge. In this session, we will explore the causes and effects of this discoverability crisis and how we can overcome it going forward. We will discuss these issues with an international panel of experts from research, research support and scholarly infrastructure. The panel will be interactive with ample time for questions and comments from the audience.

Communicating science is hard. That process is not getting any easier as the size and complexity of research data grows, the analytical techniques become increasingly sophisticated, and the problems we are trying to solve increase in complexity. As we have seen with issues that affect broad swaths of society such as COVID19 and climate change, we as scientists need to consider how to better garner trust in complex research that may affect the daily lives and/or health of the public. This panel will discuss the growing need of research assessment to include the communication of science to a variety of stakeholders: from fellow researchers to policy makers to citizens.