FORCE11
Non-profit organisation to enhance research publishing and communication
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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.
The Future of Scholarly Communication and e-Scholarship | |
| Formation | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Type | Nonprofit organization |
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| Focus | Scholarly communication |
| Headquarters | San Diego |
| Membership | 3,471 (June 2011) |
Official language | English |
Board Chair | Todd A. Carpenter |
| Subsidiaries | Force11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) |
| Website | force11.org |
History
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]