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. Prior to joining Stratos in 2023, she was most recently Head of Partnerships at Crossref. Jennifer started her career as a librarian before joining HighWire Press and then going on to policy, marketing and product roles at Springer Nature. She serves as Chair of the Open Access eBooks Usage Data Trust (OAeBUDT) in addition to participating in several community working groups and committees.
Latest Updates
Learn more about what’s happening in Open Science.
Systematic problems require large scale systematic solutions: We need convergence
Scholarly communication doesn’t work well enough for enough stakeholders. But why is that, exactly? What are the root causes? How do these point to solutions? There is a parable common in the business world about a group of people who’ve never seen an elephant and...
ICOR promotes a new research communication paradigm
In February, ICOR hosted a webinar with several leaders who are rethinking research sharing beyond the confines of the traditional journal article. There have been a number of meetings and workshops focused on the future of scholarly communication, publishing, and...
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...