FORCE11 is an international coalition of researchers, librarians, publishers and research funders working to reform or enhance the research publishing and communication system. Initiated in 2011 as a community of interest on scholarly communication, FORCE11 is a registered 501(c)(3) organization based in the United States but with members and partners around the world. Key activities include an annual conference, the Scholarly Communications Institute and a range of working groups.
History
FORCE11 grew out of the FORC Workshop held in Dagstuhl, Germany in August 2011.[1] This meeting resulted in the collaborative creation of a white paper[2] which summarized the problems of scholarly communication and proposed a vision to address them.
Activities
Through various working groups FORCE11 has undertaken a range of activities to improve the standards, interoperability and functionality of digital research communications and developed various statements on principles and policies for best practice. These include:
- FAIR Data Principles: The development of a set of principles based on making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR)[3]
- Research Resource Identification Initiative (RRID): supporting new guidelines and identifiers in biomedical publications[4]
- Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (JDDCP): intended to help achieve widespread, uniform human and machine accessibility of deposited data through data citation[5]
- Software citation principles[6]
See also
- Australian Open Access Strategy Group Archived 2018-02-10 at the Wayback Machine (AOASG)
- Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
- Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
References
- ^ Neylon, Cameron (2018-04-05). “Social infrastructures in research communication: a personal view of the FORCE11 story”. Insights: The UKSG Journal. 31. doi:10.1629/uksg.404. hdl:20.500.11937/67101. ISSN 2048-7754.
- ^ “Force11 White Paper: Improving The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship”.
- ^ “FAIR Principles”. GO FAIR. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
- ^ “RRID | Welcome…” scicrunch.org. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
- ^ Clark, Tim; Taylor, Mike; Smith, Arthur; Sacchi, Simone; Rauber, Andreas; Proell, Stefan; Nurnberger, Amy; Nielsen, Lars Holm; Lin, Jennifer (2015-05-27). “Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications”. PeerJ Computer Science. 1: e1. doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.1. ISSN 2376-5992. PMC 4498574. PMID 26167542.
- ^ Smith, Arfon M.; Katz, Daniel S.; Niemeyer, Kyle E.; FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group (19 September 2016). “Software citation principles”. PeerJ Computer Science. 2: e86. doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.86. hdl:20.500.11820/84ff1e9d-4edf-4d7b-a7b2-5722e154fbc6. ISSN 2376-5992.
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