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Get the latest news from Stratos on our blog. Explore our vision, projects, and partnerships. Hear from Kristen and Jennifer on the most pressing issues in scholarly communications and Open Science. And learn about opportunities for collaboration.
Should the NIH pay APCs?
In September, Stratos, Rapid Science, and ICOR submitted a joint open letter in response to an open request for information by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH requested feedback on...
The Stratos Team: Get to know Jennifer Kemp, Director of Consulting Services
Jennifer Kemp began her career as a scholarly librarian in the earlier days of open access and digital preservation. Frustrated scientists came to her when they couldn’t find papers online, or...
Creating convergence: Coming together to tackle systemic challenges
Note: This post is the second in a two-part series. Read the first post, exploring the interconnected challenges of the current system, here. Researchers, funders, institutions and other...
Systematic problems require large scale systematic solutions: We need convergence
Note: This post is the first in a two-part series. Read the first post, exploring collaborative strategies for creating change here. Scholarly communication doesn’t work well enough for enough...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Stratos welcomes Jennifer Kemp as Director, Consulting Services
We are delighted to welcome Jennifer Kemp to Stratos in a new role as Director of Consulting Services. Jennifer’s background in research infrastructure, libraries, scholarly publishing and open...
Incentivizing Collaborative Open Research (ICOR): First Public Meeting on May 17th 2023
Stratos Founder, Kristen Ratan, also CoFounded ICOR along with Sarah Greene, CEO of Rapid Science. We are pleased to announce that ICOR’s inaugural public webinar is scheduled for May 17, 10:30am –...
Building a body of evidence for open research: let’s start rowing in the same direction
In this Year of Open Science there is a lot of free flowing energy circulating about the benefits of open research to improve research integrity, generate more collaborative approaches, improve...
Open infrastructure for open research – realizing a new ecosystem
We have long wished for an open source ecosystem for research communication that included multiple, overlapping open source components that fit together to make new solutions combined with a...