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Explore Stratos’ 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 on our blog.
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...
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...
The OSTP future for open: meeting the infrastructure gap
The recent Nelson Memo released by the White House OSTP poses the question of how we will meet the growing open access publication and data needs I recently posted on the Educopia blog that there is...
Work with us!
We are seeking a program manager who is passionate about open research! Stratos and partner organization, Rapid Science, seek a program manager to help run several very exciting open science...
Shifting the incentives in research: open as a basis for collaboration
Stratos sharpens focus on proving that sharing research early and openly fuels greater collaboration and faster, better research outcomes It has been two years since I started Stratos and shifted my...