Open scientific publishing expert group

The purpose of the Open scientific Publishing permanent group is to:

• Build and organise the community of public stakeholders around open and sustainable digital scholarly publishing activities;
• Contribute to identifying and fostering new editorial models, from the peer reviewing process to distribution, in line with opportunities of the digital economy and the needs of research and society;
• Certify activities which promote knowledge sharing, the use, distribution and preservation of contents (best practices, recommendations and guidelines);
• Promote studies, produce analytical notes for the Ministry, universities and research organizations, as well as for other stakeholders about the development of open scholarly publishing;
• Draw up proposals and support actions which help the research community to regain control over its intellectual property of published writings and contents;
• Design effective infrastructures for regaining control over publishing workflows, especially by networking stakeholders, operators, university presses and learned societies, empowered to control their workflows and intellectual property on publications.