From: T Scott Plutchak <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:58:07 +0000 I was not involved in the online discussion, but I've spent some time going through the report. The front matter to the report includes the following: " The 112 participants who signed up to participate in this conversation were drawn mostly from the academic, research, and library communities. Most of these 112 were not active in this conversation, but a healthy diversity of key perspectives was still represented. "Individual participants may not agree with all of the viewpoints described herein, but participants agree that this document reflects the spirit and content of the conversation. "This main body of this document was written by Glenn Hampson and edited by Joyce Ogburn and Laura Ada Emmett. Additional editorial input was provided by many members of the OSI working group. Kathleen Shearer is the author of Annex 5, with editing by Dominque Bambini and Richard Poynder." Glenn Hampson is the exec director of nSCI, the organization that pulled the OSI working group together. nSCI, as far as I can tell, is largely a one man operation. From a close reading of the document, I gather that the recommendations are less consensus statements and more reflections of the breadth of the online discussions among the 20 or so active participants. I thought the report was a pretty good compendium of the current range of issues being discussed by those who are concerned with how the scholarly communication landscape is changing and it is valuable for that reason. It is certainly worth taking some time to read through it, and perhaps consideration of the recommendations will spark some useful discussion. Scott T Scott Plutchak | Director of Digital Data Curation Strategies UAB | The University of Alabama at Birmingham The Edge of Chaos – LHL 427 http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4712-5233 uab.edu -----Original Message----- From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 16:56:47 -0500 This daft report has appeared from a relatively new organization called The Open Science Initiative Working group of the national Science Communication Institute. It doesn't seem possible tell who the drafting/editing people were, pulling together from what was obviously a much larger conversation. Apparently a large group of thought leaders was invited to join an email dialog. 24 of them chose to sign the document and 90 didn't, for whatever reason. Would be interesting to hear more about this report from those who know more. Meanwhile, the draft (final report to be released in March) highlights the diversity in in perceptions about open access. It recommends 10 years of high level (productive) conference-based conversations and recommends exploring "the world's first all-scholarship repository," stating that work is already in progress about this. Any more information available about this ASR? See: Summary Blog Post http://nationalscience.org/nsci-focus-areas/science-writing/2015/open-science-initiative-issues-new-paper-recommendations/ Full Text http://nationalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/OSI-report-Feb-2015.pdf