Vision and Strategy
Stratos Investigates
Discovering the full range of stakeholder needs, analyzing the current landscape, including the gaps and opportunities in open science projects, technologies and services.
Research and Analysis
Stratos Maps it Out
Stratos helps crystallize your vision and develop a strategic plan including policy, practices, infrastructure, or incentives that defines the starting point, milestones, and an implementation approach with estimated budget.
Implementation and Growth
Stratos Delivers
On time and on budget through expert project and sustainability planning, including timelines and budgets, identifying and securing appropriate partners, recruiting staff and contractors, and managing technology builds and integrations.
What We Do
Stratos works with partnering organizations, projects, institutions, and funders to achieve open science goals, offering a combination of consultative services, implementation and project planning, analysis of workflow and infrastructure needs, devising analytics and metrics for success and delivering solutions that combine strategy, ideas, people and technology.
Kristen Ratan
Founder
Kristen founded Stratos in 2019 to connect open research ideas and initiatives into a movement. She has a 20+ year history working to accelerate advances in science and research communication. She started the ICOR strategic circle, co-founded the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), and was the Publisher at the Public Library of Science (PLOS).Kristen is on the board of the ASAPbio, Rapid Science, and the American Institute of Physics Publishing, and the advisory boards of DataSeer, Stencila, PREreview and Invest in Open Infrastructure.
Jennifer Kemp
Director Consulting Services
Jennifer brings over 20 years of experience leading initiatives and programs in scholarship, infrastructure, policy development, and librarianship. She was most recently Head of Partnerships at Crossref, where she worked with funders, service providers, API users, the books community and publishers on best practice participation. Jennifer led efforts as wide-ranging as business development with service subscribers, a community consultation on accessibility for DOI links and research collaborations on the value of Crossref, and the reach and effects of metadata.
Latest Updates
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Research communication is failing us
Let’s rebuild research communication as an extension of the research process There's been an increase in concerns about research integrity in the past few years, with more researchers being called out for everything from missing information, to sloppy science, to...
Case Studies in Moving Data from Sharing to Reuse and Collaboration
Thanks in large part to the OSTP Nelson memo, the availability of research data is getting a level of attention that many of us think is long overdue. ‘Data sharing,’ as it’s commonly known, is a bit of a misnomer that belies both the work that goes into meeting even...
The Year of Open Science is Flying By
Late last year NASA manifested a collective scholarly communications dream by declaring 2023 The Year of Open Science across U.S. federal granting agencies. For those of us in the States, used to looking elsewhere for national-level policies and coordination, this...