FORCE11

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FORCE11
Formation2011; 13 years ago (2011)
TypeNonprofit organization
46-3994190
FocusScholarly communication
HeadquartersSan Diego
Membership
3,471 (June 2011)
Official language
English
Board Chair
Todd A. Carpenter
SubsidiariesForce11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI)
Websiteforce11.org

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[edit]

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[edit]

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]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Force11 White Paper: Improving The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship".
  3. ^ "FAIR Principles". GO FAIR. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
  4. ^ "RRID | Welcome..." scicrunch.org. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)