Our work
“Research excellence exists at the convergence of integrity, transparency, speed, and efficiency. The tools of Open Science and the tools of research excellence are one-and-the-same.”
– Kristen Ratan
Stratos offers concrete, tailored solutions to advance your goals and support exceptional scholarly research. And we don’t just provide recommendations. We deliver results.
Stratos empowers organizations to realize their vision for scholarly research. We can help — whether, like the Michael J. Fox Foundation, your organization seeks to develop new strategic partnerships, or like ASAP, you aim to increase compliance with Open Science policies.
Together with her talented network of partners including strategic consultants, financial analysis, innovative technologists, experienced creatives, and meticulous product and project managers, Kristen Ratan will craft and execute thoughtful, achievable strategies that meet your needs.
We investigate
We’ll uncover the full range of stakeholder needs, place learnings within the larger context of the current landscape, and identify gaps and opportunities in order to deliver a fully-fledged vision and strategy.
We map it out
We’ll help crystallize your vision and develop a strategic plan that includes policy, practices, infrastructure, and incentives. We’ll break it down into achievable actions with a defined starting point, milestones, implementation approach, and estimated budget.
We deliver
We’ll realize your vision — on time and on budget — with expert project- and sustainability-planning. We take on the heavy lifting of identifying and securing partners, recruiting staff and contractors, and managing technology builds and integrations so you can focus on day-to-day operations.
Our partners
Michael J. Fox Foundation
- Strategic and operational support for delivery and impact evaluation of expanded open science goals
- Program and partnership development, evaluation and refinement
- Landscape monitoring and industry representation – ‘eyes and ears on the ground’
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Strategic advising on early and open sharing of discoveries to accelerate science and increase its impact
- Collaboration with researchers on their use cases to develop point of need interventions and support with Stratos partners
- Thought partnership with the HHMI team
Health Research Alliance
- Leadership in organizing and educating science funders on open science policy and practice
- Webinar series with experts to address member needs
- Development of member best practices for data sharing
Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP)
Stratos partnered with this leading funding initiative to build and embed best practice open science from the ground up. Stratos designed a Research Output Management System that tracks compliance and derives new metrics to incentivize open science activities among grantees.
Incentivizing Collaborative Open Research (ICOR)
Stratos, in partnership with Rapid Science, HHMI, and Janelia, launched a group of change agents from the open science landscape to move from discussion to action in flipping research open. Find out more about ICOR’s goals and projects.
Next Gen Library Publishing Partnership
Stratos is a key partner in Educopia’s project to provide new publishing pathways for authors, editors, and readers by advancing and integrating open source publishing infrastructure to provide robust support for library publishing.